McDonald’s Fast Food Chain
~ https://www.mcdonalds.com/ ~
As a child, my parents and school system were captivated victims of the advertising brainwashing of this corporate fast-food giant. I myself have fallen into their lure many years of my life, and still victim of the addictive taste of their food. Just like most parents, a quick simple failing nutritious meal for their kids, I was taken to McDonald’s at an early age. I remember a school trip to a farm making the industry look wholesome and local, taken into a set-up building where they showed us, kids, how to flip burgers, gave us special hats, and made us want to grow up to be a burger flipper for them. As a kid, Mcdonald’s excited me. I have had the same issue having exposed my son to them – and it’s a hard habit to break, an addictive drug is their food, that captivates billions of people around the world. The Expose “Super Size Me” shows the dangers of the restaurant chain and how brainwashed the world has become.
But is it truly dangerous? it definitely has its delicious appeal. It wasn’t always a corporate giant. They of course like all businesses chase after money. They wanted success and they got it. The restaurant was started in 1940 by brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald with its founding in San Bernardino, California. Not a surprise right? California. That home farm experience I attended in school was in upstate New York in the ’70s. They were already en route to world dominance by that point.
With humble beginnings, McDonald’s started out as a hamburger stand. It turned into a franchise in the ’50s when Ray Kroc in 1955 talked them into starting a franchise, opening the first one in Phoenix, Arizona. The owners were suspicious at first and were originally reluctant to the expanding ideas. Kroc purchased the chain from the brothers, and moved its headquarters to Oak Brook, Illinois, and then global headquarters to Chicago by 2018. Since the campaign to turn to the franchise, extreme advertising, and promotions, world dominance across the Great Pond happened relatively quickly. Today McDonald’s is the world’s largest restaurant chain by revenue, boasting over 69 million customers daily in over 100 countries.
McDonald’s sells a variety of sandwiches from hamburgers, cheeseburgers, chicken sandwiches, fish sandwiches, french fries, soda, milkshakes, wraps, desserts, cafe items, coffee frappucinos, breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Since the 1980s they have been attacked for their world dominance, menu, food quality, and unhealthiness of their food. Since then, they have made annual changes to their menu to address the concerns promoting a healthier option line. They are also the second-largest private employer in the world next to Walmart.
Rated: 2.5 of 5 stars. ~ Review by Leaf McGowan/Thomas Baurley, Technogypsie Productions ~
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