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  2. Richard James McDonald (February 16, 1909 – July 14, 1998) and Maurice James McDonald (November 26, 1902 – December 11, 1971), collectively known as the McDonald Brothers, were American entrepreneurs who founded the fast food company McDonald's.

  3. Oct 28, 2020 · After their restaurant The Big M was run out of business by a competing McDonald's, the McDonald brothers called it quits in the restaurant business. There was not much of a reason to stay in California any longer, and Dick McDonald eventually moved back to his home state of New Hampshire.

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  4. The McDonald brothers saw their father, Patrick, let go with no pension from a position he held for 42 years. It was the push Dick and Maurice needed to leave New Hampshire and go west to become millionaires by age 50, something their father could never achieve.

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  5. Apr 9, 2021 · While soda fountains were failing, the McDonald brothers were flourishing and Ray Kroc wanted in on the action. Kroc proposed to the brothers that he could expand their franchise for them (as they declined the entrepreneurial process), and the group teamed up in the effort.

  6. Aug 4, 2016 · Upon his first visit in 1954, Kroc was blown away by the low prices and effectiveness of the restaurant's operation, which had been put in place by its owners, brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald. In particular, Kroc was amazed by how quickly the restaurant could fulfill a customer's order.

  7. Apr 13, 2024 · In the late 1940s, the McDonald brothers decided to overhaul their restaurant and focus on selling hamburgers instead of hot dogs. They also developed a new system for preparing and serving food that they called the “Speedee Service System.”

  8. Dec 16, 2016 · The details of what really happened depend on whom you ask—a fact that was made clear in a 1973 TIME cover story about McDonald's. This is how that article told the story: In 1940, the original McDonald brothers Richard and Maurice—who were known as Dick and Mac, respectively opened a drive-in hamburger restaurant near Pasadena, Calif.

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