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In 1937, Patrick McDonald opened "The Airdrome" restaurant at the Monrovia Airport in Monrovia, California. Hamburgers were ten cents, and all-you-can-drink Orange Juice was five cents. In 1940 his two sons, Maurice and Richard, moved the entire building 40 miles to the corner of 14th and E Streets in San Bernardino, California. The restaurant was renamed "McDonald's".
In 1948, the brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald introduced the "Speedee Service System" which established the principles of the modern fast-food restaurant. In 1954, Ray Kroc, a seller of Multimixer milkshake machines, learned that brothers Richard and Maurice (Dick and Mac) McDonald were using eight of his high-tech Multimixers in their San Bernardino, California, restaurant. His curiosity was piqued, and he went to San Bernardino to take a look at the McDonalds' restaurant.
The world's first McDonald's restaurant.
The McDonald Brothers had been in the restaurant business since 1937. In 1948, they closed down a successful carhop drive-in to establish the streamlined operation Ray Kroc saw in 1954. The menu was simple: hamburgers, cheeseburgers, french fries, shakes, soft drinks, and apple pie. The carhops were eliminated to make McDonald's a self-serve operation. Mac and Dick McDonald had taken great care in setting up their kitchen like an assembly line, to ensure maximum efficiency.
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RafaMcDonald's hamburger stand was opened on May 15, 1940 by Richard and Maurice McDonald in San Bernardino, California. This eventually became part of the McDonald's Corporation, founded on April 15, 1955 in Des Plaines, Illinois by Ray Kroc.
Ray Kroc is the founder of the business, but it is owned directly by The McDonald's Corp.
No one found McDonald's, it was created. It was created by Dick and Mac McDonald in 1940.
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