Introduction

McDonald’s is the number one fast food chain in the world.  There 32,000 McDonald’s restaurants worldwide operating in 119 countries worldwide. McDonalds was found in 1940 by brothers Richard and Maurice McDonalds in San Bernardino, California as a hamburger stand. In 1950 Ray Kroc purchases the stand from the McDonald brothers and made it into the global franchise we know today. McDonald’s is headquarters is located in Oak Brook, Illinois; they have over 440,000 employees worldwide.