Maurice "Mac" McDonald (died 1971) started the first McDonald's restaurant together with his brother. 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ...
see: Dick and Mac McDonald Richard Dick McDonald (February 16, 1909 - July 14, 1998) and Maurice Mac McDonald (died 1971), were two early fast food pioneers, originally from New Hampshire, who established the first McDonalds restaurant in 1940. ...
Mac McDonald is also the name of an American actor, best known for playing Captain Hollister on the BBC TV series Red Dwarf. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national publicly funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. ... According to the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, a red dwarf star is a small and relatively cool star, of the main sequence, either late K or M spectral type. ...
The company was founded in 1940 with a restaurant opened by siblings Dick and MacMcDonald, but it was their introduction of the "Speedee Service System" in 1948 that established the principles of the fast-food restaurant.
McDonald's founders' (Dick and MacMcDonald) first venture into the food business was in 1937, when they opened a hot dog stand in Arcadia, California.
McDonald's also flattens the social strata during dining -- there is no problem of losing face for certain customers (who might be embarrassed when someone else ordered a more expensive item in a restaurant; as the food at McDonald's is all similarly priced, this ceased to be an issue).
McDonald's is well-known for not insisting on previous experience and is an established route into the workplace for tens of thousands of young Brazilians.
Before each McDonald's opens, there is usually a family night, in which parents of the employees are asked to attend the restaurant and be served a meal by their children.
McDonald's and the other fast-food chains are now being blamed for the US obesity rate, the highest in the world - an epidemic affecting half the country's adults and a quarter of its children.
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