How McDonalds started

On May the 15th, 1940, McDonalds was founded by Richard and Maurice McDonald, also known more famously as Dick and Mac who were from San Bernardino, California. They got the idea of having a restaurant because their father, Patrick McDonald owned a hamburger stand. They started off by making a restaurant called "McDonalds Bar-B-Q and it served 25 items that were barbequed on their menu. After 8 years of having the restaurant, the McDonalds brothers realised that all their profit was mainly coming from the hamburgers, so they decided to close down the restaurant and start a new restaurant that sold hamburgers, French fries, cheeseburgers, milkshakes, apple pie and different soft drinks. They opened the restaurant in December 1948 and called in "McDonalds".