Ray Kroc transformed a small family-owned burger stand into McDonald's, the world's biggest fast-food empire.

Dick and Mac McDonald were the founders of the original McDonald's restaurants, but theirs was not an easy road. They endured ...

The way Ray Kroc tells the story, when he first encouraged the McDonald brothers to open more hamburger restaurants, they winced. The year was 1954. The place: San Bernardino, California ...

Did you ever see The Founder? Great film about a great American, Ray Kroc, the man who gave us McDonald’s. Other people like to say that the McDonald brothers gave us McDonald’s, that Kroc was ...

In 1940, Richard and Maurice McDonald opened their first burger stand in San Bernardino, CA. With the help of Ray Kroc, the brothers took their restaurant across the country over the course of the ...

The Chicago-based company was created in 1955 when founder Ray Kroc opened the first ... System Inc., a predecessor of McDonald’s Corp., in Des Plaines, Ill. Brothers Dick and Mac McDonald ...

The McDonald's that has become a part of the fabric of American culture and fast food cuisine today was created by two brothers, but not without their fair share of challenges. When brothers Richard ...

Ray Kroc, a Multimixer salesman, stumbled upon the original McDonald's brothers' burger restaurant in 1954. Kroc became McDonald's first franchisee and transformed the restaurant into a global empire.