Place    From 15/5/1940 

McDonald's Restaurants

Categories: Food & Drink

Countries: USA

Fast food outlets. The company was founded as a barbecue restaurant by Richard and Maurice McDonald. In 1948, they reorganised the business as a self-service drive-in restaurant selling hamburgers, cheeseburgers, potato chips, pie and soft drinks. To date (2015) they have 36,000+ outlets worldwide. This photograph was taken in Woolwich, at the opening of their 3000th branch, which was also their first in Britain.

The Telegraph says that the first three McDonald’s in the UK were all on the sites of former Burton’s shops.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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McDonald's Restaurants

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McDonald's Restaurants

{Beneath the McDonald's 'Golden Arches' logo:} 3000 We dedicate the opening o...

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Fred L. Turner

Fred L. Turner

Businessman. Developed the McDonald's hamburger brand.

Person, Commerce, Food & Drink, USA

1 memorial
Maharajah's fountain

Maharajah's fountain

The picture source has some other pictures and some news articles about the opening of the fountain. The architect of the fountain was R Keirle, RIBA, active until at leat 1913.

Building, Food & Drink

1 memorial
Tea Trade in London

Tea Trade in London

The following text is taken from the Shoreditch plaque: This plaque commemorates 350 years of the tea industry in the City of London. The industry was spread over Plantation House (now Plantation ...

Group, Commerce, Food & Drink, Industry

3 memorials
Samuel Palmer

Samuel Palmer

1857 joined his brother, George, in the family biscuit firm, Huntley and Palmers, based in Reading. Ran the London office and lived with his family in Hampstead in a house close to the site of the ...

Person, Commerce, Food & Drink, Industry

1 memorial
Vintners' Company

Vintners' Company

One of the Twelve Great Livery Companies of the City of London. Its origins steeped in the history of the City of London, and the import, regulation and sale of wine.

Group, Commerce, Food & Drink, Liveries & Guilds

2 memorials