The team which is leading McDonald’s in the UK: Jill McDonald, Richard Forte, Paul Pomroy , Nick Hindle, Jez Langhorn, Lauren Cody, Henry Trickey, Alistair Macrow, Thomas Kelly, Trevor Bull, Franco Ventura and Warren Anderson.
1940- McDonald’s Bar-B-Q restaurant was opened on Fourteen and E streets in San Bernardino, California by Dick and Mac McDonald.
1948- They then closed down their restaurant for 3 months so they can make some alterations. Dick and Mac then opened the business again as a self-service drive-in restaurant. They reduced the amount of items they had on their menu. They lowered it to 9 items. These were the 9 items they had on their menu: cheese burger, ham burger, potato chips, slice of pie, soft drinks, coffee and milk. The staple of the menu is the 15 cent ham burger.
1955- First McDonalds opened by Kroc in Des Plaines, Illinois on April 15. The first day sales were $366.12. By the year 1965 there would be more than 700 McDonald’s restaurants all over the United States.
McDonald's are found in 119 countries and areas around the world and they serve around 68 million customers each day. McDonald's runs over 34,000 restaurants worldwide, employing more than 1.7 million people.
Franchisees of the world’s largest fast-food chain fear the company is less and less deserving of its reputation for speed.
The menu at McDonald's has developed by 70% to around 145 items since the year 2007, Bloomberg News reports. As the chain adds a new item after a new item, franchise owners are complaining that running McDonalds has grown to be an "operational nightmare" with "slow service," according to a