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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO the Golden Arches.
McDonald’s turns 75 today and it’s safe to say the company has come a long way from its origins in wartime America.
Originally a barbecue restaurant in San Benardino, California, here’s what was on the menu in Richard and Maurice McDonald’s eatery in 1940.
The brothers soon worked out that the majority of their business came from selling hamburgers, and this is what their restaurant looked like in 1948, after it was officially retooled as a fast-food burger joint.
Six years later the McDonald brothers had their franchise bought out from under them by 52-year-old businessman Ray Kroc, and the rest is history.
The world-famous golden arches and capital ‘M’ McDonald’s sign were first brought before the public in 1968.
Some more nostalgia – here’s what the franchise’s first ever UK restaurant and menu looked like in 1974:
McDonalds finally came to Ireland in 1977, opening on Dublin’s Grafton Street, and that restaurant is still there to this day.
These days, the business is struggling to put it mildly – not helped by a series of hygiene and health scandals that have decimated its business in Asia, and new, hipper franchises like Five Guys that have eaten into its American dominance.
The company, under new CEO Steve Easterbrook is on a major reboot drive in order to win back its business.
Unfortunately this has led to the Hamburglar being hipster-ised…
Fast Company / TwitterThe story behind McDonald's hot, hipster Hamburglar http://t.co/IUMZCVQQ1V pic.twitter.com/dpI7jWzHtu
— Fast Company (@FastCompany) May 8, 2015
Honestly, what would 1980s Hamburglar think?
We still love you though Hamburglar. A very happy birthday to what, it’s probably safe to say, remains a worldwide institution.
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I really hope people respect ‘family private’ means what it says. This family have shared enough their time left with him. Hope they have the good sense to have someone at the door to refuse people just in case. Have seen it disrespected at much lesser known people’s funerals.
Paid my respects to Anthony and his family today. Shocking to see Anthony someone who was always so full of life and happiness lying so still in a casket.
The Journal in referring to Anthony Foley, as “Foley” seems rather disrespectful and bad mannered. I just don’t get how any journalist worth their salt could be so thoughtless
@Jane Waters: I’d guess because his friends called him Foley…..
The Journal aren’t friends of his. No right to call him Foley. He was Anthony. His friends called him Anthony.
@Sinead Hanley: His close friends called him Foley.
Ok Blake. Whatever you say.
With an ad for rugby jerseys inserted. Classy
Doug howlett = Andy Farrell there garreth
@Rachel Didleu: red thumbing has little or no affect on the cosmic law of the transmigration of the soul …..so relax red thumbers relax
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