Richard ‘Dic’ (on the left),

Maurice ‘Mac’ (on the right)

McDonald’s

Maurice ‘Mac’ and Richard ‘Dic’ McDonald have a

Write T (true) or F (false)
dream. They want to be movie stars. They go to California
from the East Coast but they can’t find jobs in the 1. Mac and Dic want to be drivers. ___
movies. They are very poor and very disappointed. 2. They go to California from the West
Coast ___
They must do something to make money. They decide to 3. They are poor. ___
open a restaurant in San Bernardino. They want to try 4. They open the first restaurant in
Chicago ___
something new, a fast-food restaurant. They borrow 5. They call the restaurant fast food ___
money and open a restaurant. They call the restaurant 6. The restaurant has three things in the
McDonald’s. menu. ___
7. There aren’t any people in the
restaurant. ___
8. The food in the restaurant is great. ___
9. Ray Kroc gives the brothers some money
Hamburgers ,milk shakes and to open the other restaurants. ___
10. The brothers are still poor. ___
11. Mac and Dic don’t want to sell the
French fries are on the menu. That’s all.
restaurants. ___
A restaurant with three things on the menu ? No one 12. Ray Kroc buys the restaurants from
thinks it will work but people love it. The food is simple, McDonald’s brothers. ___
13. Ray becomes a rich man. ___
fast and good. Soon people wait in line outside the
restaurant.

A salesman named Ray Kroc from Chicago

can’t understand why the restaurant needs so many
milk-shake machines so he goes to California to see this
restaurant. He is amazed. People wait outside the
restaurant to get in. He tries the food. It’s great. And
the restaurant is so clean.
Kroc asks the brothers to open other restaurants
like this. The brothers say they make enough money. Kroc
tells the brothers they can make more money. He can open
other McDonald’s like this one. He will give them some
money for these restaurants. The brothers agree.
It’s 1955. Kroc opens two other McDonald’s but
people want more. Soon there are hundreds of
McDonald’s. The brothers have enough money. They sell
McDonald’s to Ray Kroc. He pays $2.5 million.
Kroc becomes very rich. And the brothers ?
They are happy with their quite life.
Answer the questions .
1. Why do Mac and Dic McDonald’s open
the restaurant ?
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2. Why do they call the restaurant
McDonald’s ?
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3. What three things are on the menu in
their first restaurant ?
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4.Who asks the brothers to open the other
restaurants ?
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5. Who do the brothers sell McDonald’s to ?
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6. How much money does the man pay for
the restaurants ?
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KEY:

Write T(true) or F (false).

1- F
2- F
3- T
4- F
5- F
6- T
7- F
8- T
9- T
10- F
11- F
12- T
13- T

Answer the questions

1- Because they can’t find the jobs in the movies

2- Because it’s their surname.
3- Hamburgers, milk shakes and French fries.
4- Ray Kroc
5- To Ray Kroc
6- He pays $ 2.5 million