How He Died
When Ray died his Wife and many others were devastated. Ray died of heart ailment at Scripps Memorial Hospital in his hometown of San Diego California. His was 81 and was still was working at McDonalds when he died which showed how deadicated he was to his job. He died on January 14 1984.
Here is a Timeline We got from future wire.blogspot.com in our Bibliography
- 1948 -- The McDonald brothers open their first restaurant in San Bernardino, California
- 1955 -- Ray Kroc buys in
- 1962 -- "Golden Arches" adopted as trademark
- 1963 -- Ronald McDonald appears on TV for the first time
- 1965 -- McDonald's goes public
- 1967 -- First restaurants opened outside the US (in Puerto Rico)
- 1968 -- The Big Mac is added to the menu
- 1970 -- McDonald's restaurants are in every US state
- 1973 -- Breakfast is served with the introduction of the Egg McMuffin
- 1974 -- First Ronald McDonald House opens, in Philadelphia
- 1975 -- First drive-thru opens
- 1979 -- Happy Meals introduced
- 1984 -- Ray Kroc dies
- 1985 -- McDonald's added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average
- 1990 -- In an environmentally friendly move, most plastic and foam packaging is eliminated
- 2002 -- Salads added to the menu
- 2003 -- The "mystery meat" in Chicken McNuggets replaced with 100% all-white meat
- 2004 -- In response to a health backlash, "Super Size" menu items eliminated