• McDonald's was started near Pasadina, California in 1937

  • McDonald's was becoming very popular so they had to expand their restraunts to 15 restraunts in the early 1950s.

  • By 1950 McDonalds continued to expand to more than 200 franchises

  • In 1961 after an eroding relationship with the brothers, Kroc bought them out for two million dollars and went to expand the business

  • The brothers moved to California after World War Two and opened a resturaunt that was quick, and cheap for working families.

  • McDonald's was the largest fast food chain in the USA going international aroud 1970