Richard and Maurice McDonald

Richard James " Dick" McDonald ( born February 16, 1909 Manchester, New Hampshire; † July 14, 1998, Bedford, New Hampshire) and his brother, Maurice James "Mac" McDonald ( * November 26, 1902, Manchester, New Hampshire; † December 11, 1971, Riverside, CA ) were American fast -food pioneers.

Her parents, Patrick J. McDonald and Margaret were in 1877 or 1884 emigrated as young children from Ireland to the USA. 1910 the family lived in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. Patrick opened in 1937 near the airport of Monrovia, California Restaurant The Airdrome.

The brothers laid this restaurant for May 15, 1940 is 40 miles east location San Bernardino, California and renamed it in McDonald's. On 20 December 1948 she presented not only to self-service, but also streamlined the preparation of their hamburgers.

They wanted to become millionaires before reaching their 50th birthday. 1953, the gas station attendant Neil Fox was with his fast-food restaurant in Phoenix, Arizona, the first franchisees of the company founders. The architect Stanley Clark Meston from Fontana, California designed a standard design, with the golden arches to Richards idea.

In the same year the second franchise restaurant was opened in Downey. In 1954 she took the milkshake - machine salesman Ray Kroc added as a franchisee, in 1961 the business for $ 2.7 million bought from them.