Thursday Thirteen – History

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I thought since I had so much fun with my Unique McDonald’s last week, that this week I would list thirteen historical facts about McDonald’s.

1. 1940 – Dick and Mac McDonald open McDonald’s Bar-B-Que restaurant in San Bernardino, California.

2. 1948 – McDonald’s is founded. Dick and Mac McDonald shut down their restaurant for three months for alterations. It opens back up in December as a self service drive in restaurant. The menu was reduced to only nine items hamburgers, cheeseburgers, soft drinks, milk, coffee, potato chips and an apple pie. A hamburger only cost 15 cents.

3. 1949 – French fries replace the potato chips. Triple thick milkshakes make their debut.

4. 1958 – McDonald’s sells their 100 millionth hamburger.

5. 1961 – Hamburger University opens in the basement of the Elk Grove Village, Illinois McDonald’s restaurant. Graduates receive Bachelor of Hamburgerology degrees.

6 1962 – McDonald’s in Denver, Colorado became the first McDonald’s with indoor seating.

7. 1966 – Ronald McDonald appeared in his first TV commercial on his “fly hamburger”

8. 1968 – The Big Mac is introduced

9. 1971 – The Hamburglar, Grimace, Mayor McCheese, Captain Crook, and the Big Mac join Ronald McDonald, in McDonaldland.

10. 1973 – The Quarter Pounder debuts

11. 1975 – the Egg McMuffin is added to the menu

12. 1979 – Happy Meals make their entrance.

13. 1988 – Fortune Magazine names McDonald’s hamburgers among the 100 things that America makes best best

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  3. Terms in no. 5 are new to me. I must be this behind the times. I thought Big Mac and Happy Meals were recent.

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  4. Terms in no. 5 are new to me. I must be this behind the times. I thought Big Mac and Happy Meals were recent.

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  15. I knew some, but not all of these. I do remember when the hamburger count was posted on the McD signs and it was still in the millions.

    My brother managed some McD restaurants in the early stages of his career. Graduation from Hamburger U was a requirement and he did indeed get his degree. Although I don't think he ever posted it where anybody could see it. I benefited from his employment – my first dining table and chairs were discards from a renovated McD's restaurang.

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  16. I knew some, but not all of these. I do remember when the hamburger count was posted on the McD signs and it was still in the millions.

    My brother managed some McD restaurants in the early stages of his career. Graduation from Hamburger U was a requirement and he did indeed get his degree. Although I don’t think he ever posted it where anybody could see it. I benefited from his employment – my first dining table and chairs were discards from a renovated McD’s restaurang.

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    .-= Grandma´s last blog ..For Better Or Worse =-.

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