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Charlie Nagreen invented the hamburger
In October 1885, A men came up a idea for squashed the meatballs and put them between two slices of bread, the way he do this is want people could walk and eat, so he invented the hamburger -
People felt unsafe to eat hamburger
Hamburgers didn't become America's national dish overnight. In early 1900s, restaurants generally didn't sell them and hamburgers were served at lunch carts parked near factories, the hamburger was considered "a food for the poor." Because people felt the hamburger meat was unsafe. -
Hamburger ranked to 19th in U.S.
Of the 180,000 people who voted for their favorties food, hamburger ranked to 19th in U.S. People started to love hamburger. A man named Walt Anderson opened a small restaurant and grilled the burgers right in front of his customers. The way he want to do this is make people feel safe to eat hamburgers. -
Drive-in Restaurants have been invented
In 1940s, cars is everywhere and a man named Jesse G. Kirby came up with a fresh idea, which is let people parked their car in the restaurant and a waitress came to the car to take your order and then brought your food to the car. These waittress called carhops and they dressed up like cowgirls, cheerleaders or Scottish girls in kilts. -
McDonald and a new kitchen system came up
Richard and Mac brothers opened restaurant and they came up a new system for preparing food. The system was designed to prepare food fast, lower the prices and increase sales. They got rid of regular plates and glasses, replacing them with paper cups and paper plates. So people can held the food on hand and eaten while driving. Also McDonal brothers changed how the work was done in the kitchen, the ideas is each person only need to repeating the same simple tasks all day. People love to eat it -
Different fast food restaurant
After McDonald's became so successful that other reastaurant owners were soon visiting it and taking notes. Lots of people started to copies their idea and opened a fast restaurant. Such as burger king, KFC, Domino's Pizza and Wendy's... -
More and more of the same
Between 1960 and 1973, McDonald's restaurants increased from 200 to almost 3000.Americans now eat aout 13 billion hamburgers every ear.
