By 1958, McDonald's had sold 100 million hamburgers.
The McDonald's Corporation was founded the next year. He pitched them the idea of creating McDonald's restaurants all over the U.S. He traveled out to San Bernardino, California, to find that two brothers, Richard and Maurice McDonald, ran their diner at an amazing rate, serving way more customers than a usual restaurant should by the simple expedient of not making each burger to order instead of putting veggies and condiments according to each customer's preference, every burger was made to a more-or-less uniform standard to maximize efficiency while the restaurant had a condiment bar where customers could then add ketchup and mustard on their own. It all started in 1954 when Ray Kroc, a milkshake mixer salesman, found out that one of his customers brought many more mixers than usual for a business. That's probably how you got to this page - it's probably the most common 'not-a-wiki-word' that appears on the TV Tropes Wiki, since our wiki parser automatically converts CamelCase into article links.īut since McDonald's is such a big part of modern culture, we may as well make the visit worth your while.
