McDonald's

“If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.” That is a famous quote from the past Chief Executive Officer of McDonald’s restaurant and company, Ray Kroc. He speaks of how people should stop doing businesses just for the money, but instead for the love of it and for the satisfaction of the customer.

The company and restaurant of McDonald’s has been a major success to not only the owners of the franchise, but they have satisfied their customers for cheap and delicious food. They have sold over 300-billion burgers since they opened up their Bar-B-Q in 1940. They do not only sell in the United States though. The company operates in 121 countries around the globe. However, this business did not start booming in the beginning, it needed some help on the way.

The McDonald’s franchise started when Dick and Mac McDonald opened up their Bar-B-Q. It was a normal restaurant at this time, a drive-in restaurant in San Bernardino, California. The Bar-B-Q opened up in 1940. Business at this time was small, as you would expect from a small restaurant. However, McDonald’s restaurant was founded in 1948, with their signature deal being a hamburger for fifteen cents. The menu at the time had nine items: a hamburger, a cheeseburger, root beer, orangeade, coca cola, milk, milkshake in three flavors (chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry), pie, and french fries.

In the 1954, Ray Kroc, a multi-mixer salesman (a person who sells complex milkshakes at the time), traveled to a town in California called San Bernardino to sell his multi-mixers for the company’s drinks. He became interested in the hamburger selling process. He learned that Richard...

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...wners still felt proud that they have come this far.

They released another big product with the quarter pounder in 1973. The burger still is on the menu today. The following year, the first Ronald McDonald’s House was opened. The Houses had tubes and slides for people to go down and have fun. This was mainly attracted for little kids, mostly because they wanted to have fun while they eat.

The jobs at McDonald’s during the 1970’s were very low paying jobs. The minimum wage during this time was about $3 an hour. The managers usually had the higher paying jobs for one restaurant, but they were still not paid that much compared to other jobs. The managers would earn about $20,000 a year, which you could still have and buy your basic needs. The workers had to work very hard until the end of their shift. Many described the restaurant as a “fast-paced workplace.”