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McDonald's: a hundred billion hamburgers

Once upon a time, a businessman named Ray Kroc discovered a restaurant owned by two brothers. The restaurant served just four things: hamburgers, French fries, milk shakes and coca cola. But it was clean and inexpensive, and the service was quick. Mr Kroc liked it so much that he paid the brothers so that he could use their idea and their name: Mc Donald's.

Beef, big business and fast service were the ingredients when Mr Kroc opened his first Mc Donald's in 1955. Four years later, there were 100 of them. Kroc knew Americans liked success. So he put signs saying how many millions of Mc Donald's hamburgers people had bought. In just four years, the number was one hundred million. Now, there are more than 13,000 Mc Donald's restaurants from Dallas to Paris and from Moscow to Beijing.

Anyone who wants to open a Mc Donald's must first work in one for a week. Then, they do a nine-month training programme, in the restaurants and at 'Mc Donald's University' in Chicago. There they learn the Mc Donald's philosophy: quality control, service, cleanliness and cheap prices. Mc Donald's has strict rules, Hamburgers must be served before they are ten minutes old, and French fries, seven.

Mc Donald's has never stopped looking for new methods to attract customers, from drive-in windows to birthday parties. Chicken, fish, salad and, in some places, pizza are now on the menu. Mc Donald's in Holland even sells a vegetarian burger.
Their international popularity shows they have found the recipe for success.

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1. Who was Ray Kroc? a cooka soldiera businessmanI don't know

2. Why did Kroc give money to the two brothers? Because he wanted to use their idea and their name.Because they had helped him a few years before.Because they were very friendly.I don't know

3. The two brothers were called 'Mc Donald'. ?FalseTrueI don't know

4. When did Kroc open his first restaurant? In the 1950sIn the 1940sIn the 1960sI don't know

5. Why did Kroc put up signs? Because his prices were very cheap.Because he didn't want his customers to park anywhere.Because he wanted to show how successful his restaurants were.I don't know

6. You must study in a 'school' to open a restaurant. TrueFalse?I don't know

7. Hamburgers are cooked from 7 am to 9 am only. ?FalseTrueI don't know

8. All Mc Donald's restaurants sell the same meals. TrueFalse?I don't know

9. What can you find in Holland? a special drinka special hamburgera special ice creamI don't know

10. The journalist thinks that Mc Donald's restaurants will disappear very soon. TrueFalse?I don't know