Grinding It Out | Objects, Setting & Important Places

Grinding It Out Objects/Places

San Bernardino

This is the location of the first McDonald's restaurant. It was an octagonal store, with a storage space in the back for storing potatoes. People would drive up to it and order their burgers and fries at the counter, where they could return to their cars and enjoy a 15-cent hamburger and the best fries ever.

Tulip Corp

This was the first company for which Ray Kroc worked. Lily brand distributed paper cups of varying sizes, and the paper cup company benefited a lot from employing Ray Kroc.

Multimixer

The Multimixer was an invention that made colder, smoother, and less caloric milkshakes. It started with six spindles, then later evolved to having only five. It was the product that introduced Kroc to the McDonald brothers and their quaint, but successful, restaurant in San Bernardino, CA.

McDonald's French Fries

The french fries that the McDonald brothers made were pure heaven to Ray Kroc. They...
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