Today marks the 78th anniversary of the opening of the first McDonalds store in San Bernadino, California. It was the first of 36,615 outlets (and still rising) around the world. Richard and Maurice McDonald has previously run a hot dog stand and decided to open a store specialising in BBQ, McDonald’s Bar-B-Q. Within 10 years they had revamped the menu and the BBQ was gone and the focus was on hamburgers. They dropped the reference to bar-b-q in the name and it became known as McDonald’s.
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