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Ray Kroc, at 52 years old, invested his entire life savings to become the exclusive distributor of a milk shake maker called the Multimixer. Hearing about the McDonald’s hamburger stand in California owned by Dick & Mac McDonald running eight Multimixers at a time, he packed up his car and headed West. It was 1954. Ray Kroc had never seen so many people served so quickly. He pitched the idea of opening up several restaurants to the McDonald brothers, convinced that he could sell eight of his Multimixers to each and every one. “Who could we get to open them for us?” Dick McDonald said. “Well,” Kroc answered, “what about me?”

On April 15, 1955, Kroc’s prototype McDonald’s restaurant began business in Des Plaines, Illinois, opened with the help of Art Bender, who had served the first McDonald brothers’ hamburger and the first Ray Kroc McDonald’s hamburger.In 1965 McDonald’s went public with the company’s first offering on the stock exchange. In 1967, the first McDonald’s restaurant outside the United States opened in Richmond, British Columbia. In 1968, the Big Mac® sandwich was introduced, followed by the Egg McMuffin® breakfast sandwich in 1973. Milestones and accomplishments have followed ever since.

Big Mac Burger

Today, there are tens of thousands of McDonald’s restaurants serving millions of people daily around the world. The incredible growth and success of McDonald’s can be summed up with the first thought that went through Ray Kroc’s mind when he first saw McDonald’s: “This will go anyplace. Anyplace!”

Learn more about McDonald’s History,or download the expanded story about McDonald’s history.

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