McDonalds first opened in 1940 as a barbeque restaurant. The founders of McDonalds were dick and Mac McDonald. When dick and Mac first opened their store in San Bernardino California it was nothing more then a drive in restaurant with a large menu and a car hop service. Dick an Mac shut down the restaurant for three months for alternations. When they reopened the restaurant they reduced their menu to nine items with their staple item the 15 cent hamburger.

   They would then replace their potato chips with their world famous French fries. After they added French fries they began to expand McDonalds by opening their second shop in Des Plains, Illinois. They would eventually grow from two restaurants to a hundred. Their restaurant in Denver would become the first one with indoor service. In 1963 McDonalds would expand their restaurants to 500 with the opening of their one in Toledo Ohio.

   A couple years later they would air their first commercial advertising  their new item the big mac.