Today, the corporation that is McDonald’s Restaurants is a global icon with over 32,000 stores in more than 100 countries throughout the world, including 14,000 in the U.S.
Everything has to start somewhere, however, and that start is usually as a seedling.
One local man was there almost from the start and, in fact, had a hand in some of the things we take for granted when we think of McDonald’s in 2011.
Take the chain’s television advertising, for example. McDonald’s ads on TV are as common today as the green grass around us. But it wasn’t always that way, as Nick Karos recounts.