McDonalds Ethic Paper

McDonald has been a well-known and valuable brand for over half a century. The company’s mission and vision is striving to be the world’s best quick service restaurant and formalizing their beliefs into “People, Vision, and People Promise”. “Quality, Service, Cleanliness and Value” also became the company’s motto. The company’s first McDonald store was built “in 1940 by the original McDonald brothers, Dick and Mac. Later in 1954, Ray Kroc became the first official franchisee appointed by Dick and Mac McDonald in San Bernardino, California” (Chandiramani, Ravi). Soon after, Mr. Kroc opened his first restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois, and the McDonald’s corporation was created. The new franchise began to grow rapidly as a result of its success. It wasn’t long before the 100th McDonald’s restaurant opened in Chicago in 1961. Less than ten years after the opening of Ray Kroc’s restaurant the company began to expand all over the United States. Ray Kroc bought all rights to the McDonald’s concept from the McDonald’s brothers for $2.7 million in 1961. McDonald’s continued to have enormous growth during the 1960’s. In 1963 alone, McDonald’s sold “their one billionth hamburgers, opened their 500th restaurant, “Ronald McDonald” made his big debut, and McDonald’s net income exceeded $1 million” (Chandiramani, Ravi). In 1966, McDonald’s was first listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and in 1967 McDonald’s went global. The company kept expanding with the introduction of the “Big Mac” and the opening of its 1,000th restaurant, which was where it all started- in Des Plaines, Illinois. McDonald’s began to mature as a successful global business toward the beginning of the 70’s. By 1970, there was at least one McDonald’s restaurant in every U.S. state, and several in different countries around the world, countries including, “France, Japan, Germany, and even Guam all had McDonald’s” (Stender, S., J. Dyerberg, and A. Astrup). In 1972, the company’s assets reached