McD Timeline - Partly
Customers lined up in front of the first McDonald's
hamburger stand in San Bernadino, California, in 1948.
McD Timeline
1948: Richard and Maurice McDonald open their first fast-food restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
1954: Ray Kroc takes over franchising for McDonald's.
1955: Kroc opens his first McDonald's in Des Plaines, Illinois.
1961: Kroc takes full control of the McDonald's Corporation and opens Hamburger University to train employees.
1963: Ronald McDonald appears in public for the first time in Washington, D.C.
1965: First national TV ads appear; Filet-O-Fish sandwich introduced.
1968: One thousandth McDonald's restaurant opens in Des Plaines; Big Mac introduced.
1971: First McDonald's opens in Japan, Germany, and Australia.
1979: McDonald's serves its thirty-billionth hamburger.
1984: Ray Kroc dies.
1999: In Chicago, Illinois, McDonald's opens its twenty-five thousandth restaurant.
More stories on McD history were available at http://referenceforbusiness.com/businesses/M-Z/McDonald-s-Corporation.html
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