McDonald's

McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of fast-food restaurantshttp://biz.yahoo.com/p/eatingmktd.html. Although McDonald's did not invent the hamburger or fast food, its name has become nearly synonymous with both.

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The company began in 1940 with a restaurant opened by brothers Dick and Mac McDonald, but it was their introduction of the "Speedee Service System" in 1948 that established the principles of the fast-food restaurant. However, the company today dates its "founding" to the opening of CEO Ray Kroc's first franchised restaurant, the company's ninth, in 1955.

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Fast-food restaurant: A fast-food restaurant is a restaurant characterized both by food which is supplied quickly after ordering, and by minimal service. Food purchased may or may not be eaten quickly as well. Often this food is referred to as fast food. In response to increasing backlash against "fast-food", the indu...

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Fast food: Fast food is food prepared and served quickly at a fast-food restaurant or shop at low cost. Fast food is a multi-billion dollar industry which is continuing to grow at a rapid pace in the early 21st century in many countries as fewer people cook at home....

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