On a quiet Saturday morning in Chillicothe, Missouri, July 7, 1928, a local bakery began selling loaves of bread that looked radically different from anything customers had seen before. Instead of the typical unsliced loaves wrapped in wax paper or cloth, these loaves were…
Read MoreOn May 15, 1940, in San Bernardino, California, Richard and Maurice McDonald opened the first McDonald’s restaurant, marking the birth of what would become a global fast-food empire. This pioneering establishment, known then as “McDonald’s Bar-B-Q,” was initially a carhop drive-in with an expansive menu of…
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