Happy birthday McDonald’s!

We can not drive past a McDonald’s without Katelyn pointing to the Golden Arches and saying , “Fri Fry! Fri Fry!” Not that we go there that often, but she sure does like their fries! Even at QU Hawk basketball games, we’d only be there for 2-3 minutes and she would see the McDonald’s ad and point and say , “Fri Fry! Fri Fry!”

Hopefully they’ll come out with more children’s coupons soon. At Halloween & Christmas we bought a coupon book for $1. It had 12 kids coupons for free items such as fries, drinks, cookies and ice cream cones. Pretty good deal.

The Golden Arches are everywhere — and it started 50 years ago Friday, when a milkshake machine salesman opened his first McDonald’s in this Chicago suburb and began turning a small chain of hamburger stands into an empire that would include 30,000 restaurants, serve 50 million people a day, and become a symbol of the United States all over the world.

Read Full Story: After 50 years, influence of McDonald’s still felt - U.S. Business News - MSNBC.com

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I got the following article via email which appeared in a Chicago newspaper:

Numerically, the Maid-Rite fast-food franchise poses no threat to McDonald’s, but it has demonstrated staying franchise in America (after A&W).

Launched almost 80 years ago in Iowa, it has its corporate headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa, but you’ll find a pair of Maid-Rite outlets east of the Mississippi River in Quincy, Ill. This charming river town of about 40,000 attracts foodies to its companionable watering holes and down-home
eateries - and, perhaps, to the local Maid-Rites for their specialty sandwiches. It also draws a flock of architectural buffs who go to admire buildings that fill five distinct historic districts.

Quincy is the seat of Adams County. Both take their names from the sixth president, John Quincy Adams, son of the second U.S. president (the only such father-son combination until the election of George W. Bush). From 1850 to 1930, Quincy was the most prominent river town in Illinois, and at one time the state’s second-largest city, bigger than Chicago.
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