The McDonalds

 TEXT  THE MCDONALDS

Richard J. McDonald (February 16, 1909 – July 14, 1998) and Maurice “Mac” McDonald (November 26, 1902 – December 11, 1971) were two early American fast food pioneers, originally from Manchester, New Hampshire, who established the first McDonald’s restaurant in 1940.

      The McDonald family were of Irish origin. Dick and Mac McDonald were born in the USA but their parents Patrick J. McDonald and Margarete were Irish.

      The brothers’ first food venture was a hot-dog stand in Monrovia, California called the Airdrome, opened in 1937. Using the profits generated, they closed it and opened their first restaurant, a barbecue drive-in in San Bernardino, California, on May 15, 1940.

      In 1954 a milkshake machine salesman, Ray Kroc, became inspired by the evident financial success of the brothers’ concept, immediately grasping the restaurant’s enormous potential. He partnered with the brothers, and within a few years turned their small restaurant into a huge franchise that would later become the McDonald’s Corporation. Dick and Mac McDonald sold him the full rights of McDonald’s. The brothers received $2.7 million for the chain. Although Kroc turned McDonald’s into a global giant, its guiding principles remained largely unchanged from those the McDonald brothers had devised in 1948.

      Mac McDonald died of cancer in 1971. Richard McDonald died in Manchester, New Hampshire in 1998, at  the age of 89. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy, a stepson, Gale French and two grandchildren.

      Ray Kroc was born to parents of Czech origin in Chicago, Illinois in 1902. Kroc died of a heart ailment  in San Diego, California, on January 14, 1984. Kroc was survived by his third wife, Joan B. Kroc. He had been married twice before. To Ethel Fleming (in 1922) and Jane Dobbins Green (1963) who had been John Wayne’s secretary.

        01-Complete in English:

         Dorothy McDonald was Mac McDonald's _____.

        A(  ) sister   B(  ) sister-in-law    C(  ) niece

        D(  ) cousin    E(  ) daughter

02-Ray Kroc had been married _____________________.

A(  )twice    B(  )thrice    C(  )four times

D(  )five times    E(  )six times

03-Gale French is Dick McDonald’s ___________________.

                A(  )son    B(  )stepson   C(  )nephew    D(  )brother   E(  )uncle

04-Ray Kroc was born in____________________.

A(  )San Diego    B(  )Monrovia      C(  )San Bernadino     D(  )Chicago   E(  )Manchester

05-Dick and Mac McDonald were__________________.

A(  )just friends    B(  )brothers-in-law

C(  )nephews    D(  )cousins    E(  )siblings