The legacy of Milton Hershey, Richard McDonald, Maurice McDonald, Ray Kroc, Ken Hardy, Jur van Hoorn, Adolphus Green, John Stith Pemberton, Asa Griggs Candler, Caleb ...

McDonald's is among the most iconic and successful brands worldwide. Ray Kroc, a Multimixer salesman, stumbled upon the original McDonald's brothers' burger restaurant in 1954. Kroc became McDonald's ...

Anyone who has read biographies on the life of McDonald's Corp. (NYSE:MCD) Ray Kroc or seen the movie “The Founder” is aware that the fast food giant is less in the hamburger business than in the real ...

McDonald’s Corp. is tearing down Ray Kroc’s first restaurant. Sort of. The Oak Brook, Illinois-based burger giant is razing a replica of what was its founder’s first location, in Des Plaines, Ill. The ...

Ray Kroc cut the ribbon on the first McDonald’s franchise, opened in Des Plaines, Ill., back in 1955 — and the rest is fast food history. But the McDonald’s story begins years before that — and ...

Seventy years ago this week, a hamburger joint named McDonald’s opened in northwest suburban Des Plaines. No one except for its Oak Park-raised owner Ray Kroc may have believed the tiny to-go place ...

The oldest surviving McDonald's is located in Downey, Calif. near Los Angeles. There were McDonald's restaurants in the region a quarter-century before Ray Kroc opened the first franchise in suburban ...