McDonald's , often called more familiarly McDo (delivery MacDo in France and Mecdo with the Quebec), is more the large chain of Fast-food industry of the world. Although McDonald's invented neither the Hamburger nor fast-food industry, its name almost became Synonyme about it. With more than 31.600 restaurants throughout the world, of which: 1090 in France, and more: 45000 employees. The company has or has participations in other chains of restaurants, like Aroma Café , Boston Market , Chipotle Mexican Grill , Donatos Pizza (since December 2003) and Prêt To eat .

The incomes for 2001 were of 14,87 billion dollars, with an net income of 1,64 billion dollar.

According to the book Fast Food Nation of Eric Schlosser (2001), close to an employee on eight with the the United States worked once in its life at McDonald's.

France is one of the most dynamic markets: in 2003, the turnover of McDonald's France progressed from 10%, to reach the 2,2 billion euros. One counts more than 1090 restaurants on the French territory. McDonald's France accommodates more than 1,2 million customers per day. According to the publicity campaign of July 2007, more than 200 restaurants are equipped with Wi-Fi, more than 700 restaurants are equipped with McDrive, more than 900 restaurants are air-conditioned, and 70% of the restaurants open until 23:00 at least.

History

Beginnings

  • 1937 : the brothers Richard Dick and Maurice Mac McDonald open a stand of hot dog called Airdome with Arcadia, in California.

  • 1940 : the two brothers move their Airdome (building included/understood) with San Bernardino, in California, and re-elect it “restaurant McDonald's” the May 15th. The menu consists of 25 articles, mainly cooked with the barbecue. And as it was current at the time, they employ approximately 20 carrying. It became a very popular for the young people, and very advantageous place of appointment for its owners.
  • 1948 : After having noticed that the majority of their incomes came from hamburgers, the two brothers closed their restaurant for several months in order to develop a system innovating the Speedee Service System , a line of " preparation; aérodynamique" for hamburgers. The carrying ones were laid off.

The Years 1950: franknesses

  • 1953 : The McDonald brothers begin with franchiser their restaurant, Neil Fox was the first frankness. The second McDonald's opens with Phoenix (Arizona). It is the first to present the drawing of in '' Golden Arches '' (gilded arches, formed by the letter M); later the restaurant of origin was rebuilt in this style.

  • 1953: the fourth McDonald's restaurant opens with Downey in California: with the angle of the boulevards Lakewood and Firestone and is to date oldest restoring mark still in operation.
  • 1954 : the Contractor and salesman of machine with Milk-shake (Multimixer) Ray Kroc became fascinated by the restaurant of McDonald when he learned their extraordinary capacity (for the benefits) and their popularity. After having seen the restaurant under operation, Kroc approached the McDonald brothers, who had already started with franchiser, with a proposal to leave it franchiser the concept, with him like first frankness. Kroc worked hard to sell the concept McDonald' S. It even tried to prevail on its knowledge of the war with Walt Disney, in the vain hope to open a McDonald's in the park Disneyland, then in construction.
Of others visited the restaurant and set out again about it inspired, one can quote James McLamore, founder of Burger King, and Glen Bell, that of Taco Bell.

  • 1955 : Ray Kroc opens the first " vrai" restaurant of the McDonald's company to Of the Plains, in the suburbs of Chicago in the Illinois. The incomes of the first day were of $366,12 (of the time). The official documents of the company often use this date like their " commencement" although it was 15 years earlier, and consequently erasing occasion any trace of the McDonald brothers in favor of Kroc. During several decades this restaurant was known like the “McDonalds #1”.

The Years 1960: The North-American development

  • 1960 : The company is famous " McDonald's Corporation".

  • 1961 : The McDonald brothers give their agreements to sell the rights of their company in Kroc for an amount of 2,7 million US$, that Kroc had obtained several investors (of which the university of Princeton). The contract authorizes the two brothers to preserve their restaurant of origin but they n the other hand lose the right to post the name McDonald's . There was thus famous The Big M , and remained open until Kroc opens a McDonald's right in the street located at north. If the brothers had preserved their preceding agreements which offered to them 0,5% of the annual incomes of the chain, they would have cumulated today with their families more than 100 million dollars per annum.
  • 1962 : One of the points of the marketing of Kroc was its decision to sell the McDonald's hamburgers to the families and to the children. A frankness from Washington sponsorisa a spectacle for children baptized Bozo' S Circus. Bozo was a character frankness, played with Los Angeles by Willard Scott. After the spectacle was cancelled, Goldstein engaged Scott to represent the new mascot of McDonald's, Ronald McDonald in the first three televisual publicities including the character. The character will be finally diffused on the remainder of the United States by an advertizing campaign. Although later, it was decided that at the same time Scott and its costume of origin were not very suitable for the role. A whole troop characters resulting from the " McDonaldland " was developed.

  • 1963 : The Net-O-Fish is proposed for the first time at Cincinnati in the Ohio, in a restaurant located in a district at predominance Catholique which practices the Abstinence Fridays. It was the first addition with the menu of origin, which became national the following year, with fish provided by Gorton' S off Gloucester.

  • 1965 : The McDonald's company is now with dimensions in purse
  • 1967: The first McDonald's restaurant apart from the the United States opens with Richmond in Colombia-British, Canada.
  • 1967: The concept of restaurant, for the chain, in a building into clean, with a roof with attic and places inside is presented.
  • 1968 : The Big Mac, similar to the Big Servant boy hamburger and the Chausson with the apples are put on sale. They will be followed closely by the Egg McMuffin.

The Years 1970: internationalization

It is always in activity and was the starting point of the development of the mark in France.

The Years 1980: The beginning of the Universalization

  • 1980 : McDonald's launches the sandwich McChicken ( McPoulet in French-speaking Canada), it is its first product containing poultry. It was not sold and was withdrawn from the menus. But it will be started again later after the Chicken McNuggets ( McCroquettes in French-speaking Canada) without failing.

  • 1982 : McDonald's opens its first restaurant in Malaysia.
  • 1983 : McDonald's launches the Chicken McNugget.
  • 1984 : The July 18th, James Oliver Huberty burglarizes a McDonald's restaurant with a firearm, killing 21 people with San Ysidro in California. This slaughter is sometimes called the Massacre of McDonald's .
  • 1984: The company is one of the principal sponsors of the Olympic Games of summer of 1984. The American restaurants lost money during the plays " when America gains, you gagnez" after the nations of the Soviet block have Boycott E the plays.
  • 1985 : McDonald's opens its first restaurant in Italy, in the town of Bolzano-Bozen. A more recent restaurant with Rome imposed new standards for the interior decorations.
  • 1986 : Opening of the first restaurant in Turkey, in the town of Istanbul (Taksim District). The Prime Minister of Turkey, Turgut Özal, makes displacement for the inauguration.
  • 1988 : McDonald's opens its first restaurant in a country Communiste, with Győr in Hungary. That of Belgrade in Yugoslavia is later open the same year.
  • 1989 : McDonald's opens its first restaurant in Scotland in the district of Trongate to Glasgow.

The Years 1990: an inversion of tendency

  • 1990 : The January 31st, the first McDonald's opens with Moscow. It is one of largest McDonald's of the world. For political reasons, its opening was negotiated by McDonald's Canada; to compensate for the Russian problems of provisioning, the company created its own line production, including the farms.

  • 1990 : Beginning of the Business McLibel in London in England, the longest lawsuit of the British history.
  • 1992 : Stella Liebeck is burned with the third degree by a coffee bought to carry in McDonald' S. It prosecuted the company.
  • towards 1995: McDonald's accepted complaints coming from its franknesses complaining from the too great number of granted franknesses. McDonald's started to lead market research before granting new franknesses.
  • May 1996: the Walt Disney Company and McDonald's signs an international contract of exclusiveness for Disney in the toys proposed in Happy Meals.
  • 1997 : After a 314 days lawsuit (the longest lawsuit of the English history), McDonald's gains the first part of the lawsuit McLibel against members of association ecologist Greenpeace in London. The image of McDonald's out of spring strongly sullied since the judge declared at the conclusion of the verdict of the lawsuit which the multinational “exploits the children” by its methods marketing, which the company is responsible for “cruelty towards the animals” and “the creation of trade unions prevents”. Moreover the judge denounced the policy of the company to pay wages always low.
  • 1999 : In France, Jose Bove and others gain the attention of the world by dismounting the restaurant, in the course of construction, of a frankness with Millau (Aveyron). The incident follows a prohibition of the imports of the American meats by the European Union which utilis (er) have treatments the hormones of the animals. As a sign of retortion, the the United States increase the custom charges of the French cheeses, of which the Roquefort, as well as other European products. Jose Bove was condemned to three months of prison for her role in this incident.

The Years 2000: a mark in crisis?

  • 2000 : Eric Schlosser publishes Fast Food Nation , a critical book on the fast food in general and McDonalds in particular.
  • 2000: In Brittany, several attacks aim at restaurants Mc Donald' S, of which the Attentat of Quévert which costs the life an employee.
  • 2001 : FBI announces that employees of Simon Worldwide , a sub-contracting company of McDonald's to promote the Happy Meal S and the plays “Millionaire”/“Monopoly”, had concealed bulletins gaining for more than 20 million dollars.
  • 2002 : McDonald's loses the lawsuit against old a frankness, Bernard Collorafi , but this last does not obtain any compensation.
  • 2002: A survey in Restaurants and Institutions Magazine McDonald's class 15th for the quality of food in the hamburger chains, underlining the failure of the company to improve the standards in its network of franknesses.
  • 2002: McDonald's publishes its first quarterly loss (344 million dollars) for the last quarters of the year. It is a result of competition coming from the other chains of fast-food.
  • 2003 : McDonald's begins a world advertizing campaign which sells a better image for health and of better quality. The countryside was baptized I' m lovin' it™ and was launched in more than 100 countries simultaneously.
  • 2003: According to Technomic, a company of market research, the market shares of McDonald's to the the United States are fallen in five years from 30 (?) % with 15,2% .
  • 2003: The company again announces a loss of 126 million $ for the fourth quarters.
  • 2004 : Morgan Spurlock produces the documentary film Super Size Me in which he eats only McDonald's food during 30 days. The film shows that it will be with the detriment of its health. The title is drawn from an option of menu available to the the United States (a menu coming into three " tailles" small, average and large), which was quickly withdrawn from the offer of the restaurants. It is very probable that this withdrawal was influenced by the media repercussions of Super Size Me .
  • 2005 : McDonald's celebrates its 50e birthday, 65 years after the opening by the McDonald brothers of their first restaurant.
  • February 15th 2005: McDonald's lose the second part of the lawsuit McLibel in front of the European Cour of the Human rights in Strasbourg. Indeed, after having lost the first lawsuit in 1997, Helen Steel and Dave Morris (two members of Greenpeace), decided not to pay the fine which had been imposed to them (£60,000 of damages to pay at McDonald's, summons reduced with £40,000 in call). Instead of that, it decided to call upon the European Court of the Human rights in asserting Strasbourg that the English laws of slandering heavily played in favor of companies like McDonald' S. Mark Stephens, the lawyer of the plaintiffs declared: “The European Cour of the Human rights considered that violations of the human rights had been made in their opposition - that there had been a procedural inequity in the business and that the adopted procedures were not equitable. ”. After 15 years of legal procedures and media beatings, the business cost approximately 15 million euros to the giant of the fast food and was described like.
  • In March 2006 begins the countryside from the coalition of the Immokalee workers, also called the CIW (Coalition off Immokalee Workers). This group of farm laborers of Florida of the South claims a respect of the laws the labor on behalf of the company ( detailed article )
  • the May 9th 2006, the company Disney announced that it did not renew its international contract with McDonald' S.
  • November 2006: exit of the film Fast Food Nation realized by Richard Linklater and Eric Schlosser, a strong criticism of the industry of the fast food. In film, the fictitious company Mickey' S is largely inspired by the company McDonald's .

Presence in the world

As a giant of fast-food industry, McDonald's is present in the largest world metropolises. The constant search for strategic crossroads, not far from the neuralgic heart of the cities, gives the image, for many people, of a " pollution visuelle" who denatures the historical center of the cities. Without counting that McDonald's is regarded as one of the obvious signs of American hegemony.

In answer to this expansion, in Russia in 2004 a law was voted to restrict the number of fast-food on the territory and to close those which are located on tourist spot, for according to Moscow “giving in value the architectural heritage”. A request for creation of a restaurant on the Place of the Hillock, with Paris, was refused.

A contrario , McDonald' S.A. started since the medium of the Years 1990 a " régionalisation" of its restaurants (from of which its franknesses) all over the world. Culinary specialities “in the respect of the culture and waitings of the country in question” were thus proposed. However, certain fronts raise an architectural inspiration contrasting with local environments: the Years 1950 with the the United States, the far-west (with Toulouse - Balma), the Italian theater (that of Disney Village), Chinese temple (that of Paris 13th).

Restaurants “all around the world”

From Beijing with Paz, while passing by Pacific Islands, McDonald's is present on all the continents, the occasion of a round the world tour of the restaurants diametrically opposite: most septentrional takes seat in the Arctic Circle, with the borders of the Finland in the town of Rovaniemi; while southernmost (frankness) is in New Zealand with Invercargill. Compared to the Time zones, the Eastern sales outlet is also in New Zealand in the town of Gisborne whereas most Western rests in the luxuriant islands Samoa.

On the altimetric level, McDonald's highest on Earth (3600 m) is with Paz, in Bolivia. Contrary, low (- 396 m) is open in Israel in the village of Ein Bokek close to the Dead Sea.

These extreme establishments are worth at McDonald's the following sentence, freely inspired by that qualifying the British Empire with its apogee: “the sun never lies down on the Goldens delicious Arches”.

Vastest restoring McDonald's of the world is located at Orlando, in Florida, on the road leading to Walt Disney World Resort: International Drive . It precedes very little that of Moscow spreading out over two stages, an important zone of plays and video games, a McPizza and a section McGourmet , in which it is possible to buy paninis and sundaes.

The small branches are numerous, they are often McDrive located along the highways (primarily American) and generally without any seat with only one space of carpark for those which wish it.

Food

One proposes in this chain of restaurants: Hamburger S (round sandwiches like the Side-bagnat but using a sweetened bread), Fried S (of which the odor of so particular oil is related to a cooking at lower temperature), salads, pieces of chicken breaded, various Soda S (sugar rich person or sweetening substance S and Caféine, they are formed with mixed syrups and aerated water) which constitute what some name the Malbouffe.

Conscious of this criticism and concerned of its popularity, McDonald's tries to diversify its chart by proposing for example some salads and of the fruits. With the Quebec, McDonald's proposes the popular dish of poutine. Recently, the restaurants propose a range of sandwiches déli on toast to compete with Subway which proposes fresh sandwiches presented as being good for the line. The offer of product evolved/moved considerably, the chain already proposed pizza pies (family and individual format), McLéger and others. Finally, certain products are offered only for one specific period of the year. It is the case of McHomard and the fahitas. In Quebec McDonald' S.A. always francized the name of its products: whereas in France, one orders “a menu best off Royal cheese with a Coke light”, one will speak in Quebec about “a trio quarter about book with cheese with a coke diet”.

Composition partial of a McDonald's hamburger:

  • Water, salt, Soya
  • sugars: Sugar reversed, Saccharose, Dextrose
  • emulsifier S: E 472e (esters monoacetyltartric and diacethyltartric of mono and diglycérides of fatty-acids), E 471 (mono and diglycérides of fatty-acids), E 481 (sodium stéaroyl-2-lactylate)
  • various: E 300 (vitamin C), E 516 (sulfate of calcium gypsum, plaster of Paris), E 262, E 210, E 327 (calcium lactate)…

Being given the constitution of this bread, one cannot compare it with a traditional Pain made flour of Blé, salt, raising (Levain or Levure) and of water, it does not have of it the food value. However all the additives (Exxx) were authorized by the European commission and are without danger with the amounts where they are present (except sometimes an allergen risk); some are even entirely natural. They find all in the composition of other factory feedstuffs sold in supermarket (factory-baked bread, candies, cheeses, etc), their effect which can be cumulative. See Food additive.

Because of the heating value of the hamburger (fatty meat and sweetened bread), chips and sodas, to frequently nourish itself at McDonald's supports the Obésité. It was shown that there to eat episodically should not represent of immediate risk, and the current courses of Diététique (2004) often give like exercise of application one day the food balancing comprising a meal at “McDo” or in a similar establishment. Tables pointing out the heating values , protidic, glucidic and lipidic of the principal market products from now on are always indicated packing of the products.

Adversaries and restrictions on the borders

Already in 1986 the leaflets of the group of London greenpeace denouncing the practices of McDonald's had led to the lawsuit Mclabel, the longest lawsuit of the history of England.

McDonald's is a privileged target of the movements Altermondialiste S. the restaurant of Millau in construction, in the Larzac, in France, was in particular dismounted illegally on August 12th 1999 by a whole of farmers, in order to alert the public opinion on the medical war of customs measurements of the United States of America on various products of which the roquefort, in reaction to the European refusal of their ox to the growth hormones (like OMC allowed them). Mcdonald' S France then launched an advertizing, insistent vast campaign on the fact that 88.9% of the products Mcdonald' S sold in France are bought within the European Union. 45% come from French producers.

Around McDonald's

Terminology

McJob

Another disputed aspect is the supposed precariousness of employment in this company. A derivative word, McJob , is used by the young people to speak about the most difficult employment and badly paids. McDonald' S.A. attacked in justice dictionaries wanting to include this term.

At the station of Subway Strasbourg Saint-Denis, at Paris, a McDo was put in strike of October 2002 at December 2003, with an interruption in February and March 2003, following the reference of employees being itself syndicated.

On this subject, there exist several places in McDonald's, but the employees often permuttent between-them, of the cases to the kitchens, or the household. Several stations are thus proposed to the young people, and to adults wishing to seek work, but they will be seldom employed full-time: only one twenty hour old contract will be proposed to them. Here a list of the various stations occupied in McDo: ; Team-member: They take part daily in the activity of the restaurant. They are more particularly responsible for the preparation and the service of the products. They deal with the cooking of the breads, of the trimming of the products, or the service of the customer. They occupy the least high place in the company. ; Trainer/Instructor of team-members: With the top of the team-member thanks to his seniority in the sign, which by their experiment and their performance level and speed has the role complementary to train the new employees at the occupied stations. ; Reponsables operational: Former team-members who from their performance have aquis additional responsibilities. They are thus responsible for a preset zone, and are the representative of the trainers and team-members in front of the higher authority. One often finds them in case, or production (where the person in charge defines the number and the variety of products to be cooked and furnish). ; Assistants of direction or Manager: Generating the team of management of the restaurant, the managers are at the same time operational and administrative. They are representatives of the store as much in front of the customer that in front of the director. The assistants is several additional responsible such as the provision of the planning of the employees, the management of the orders, the material, or even of the training of the new employees.

Free WiFi

The majority of the McDonald's restaurants in France place at the disposal of the customers free the WiFi access (each restaurant announces it on its billboards).

Food restrictions on the Olympic Games of Athens

McDonald' S.A. makes impose on the Olympic Games of Athens, of August 2004, a restriction on the food. The spectators do not have the right to enter the enclosure of the plays with their own food. It is on the other hand possible there to feed with products McDonald' S. Coca-Cola, made in the same way for soft drinks, Heineken for alcoholic drinks, Visa for the withdrawals by Credit card.

What can be problematic for people not having a currency, not being able to withdraw money if their chart comes from another company, and thus not being able to get water, under a temperature of 34°C. The business was carried before the legal commission of UNO.

Lawsuit

See also: List of the lawsuits against McDonald's

Stock Exchange

  • Actions with dimensions with the Stock Exchange New York

  • Member of the index Dow Jones
  • Code Value ISIN = US5801351017
  • Face value = dollar
  • Principal shareholders:
    • Mr. Jim Skinner
    • ZZ Investment Manag

Index Big Mac

In 1986, the magazine The Economist proposed the use of the Indice Big Mac to estimate the standard of living of the countries in which McDonald's is present. This product is indeed a constant in the menus proposed in the McDonald's signs and makes it possible to give an account of the purchasing power of the population.

Vocabulary

From their American origin , the McDonald's restaurants are characterized by a vocabulary English, even in the countries where English is not spoken by the population. Thus, for example, the fork of 11:00 to 14:00 will be called Rush. Here a complete listing of the words employed:

Cook

  • BIB : Bag In the Box. Bag containing of the liquid products such as the Coke, and the other fizzy drinks

  • Bulk Coke : Stainless container of 300 [[liter L]] containing the BIB
  • Clear or Clamshell : Grill allowing to make cook the meats
  • Order grill : Special ordering of a product (ingredients in more or less)
  • Crown : Upper part of the bread
  • DLC : Deadline of consumption
  • FCN : Post preparation of the Nets, Chaussons, Nuggets, and Mcchicken
  • Garniture : Together condiments deposited on the bread
  • PEPS : Entered first left First. The PEPS is a rule which aims at making use the first entered product whose DLC is short
  • reg. or regular : Breads used for the manufacture of the Hamburger S, Cheeseburger S, Double Cheese, and of the Net o' fish. Also used to indicate the meats being used for manufacture of these sandwiches
  • Royal : Breads used for the manufacture of Royal Cheese, Mc Chicken and McDeluxe. Just as Regs, Royal indicates also the meats used for the manufacture of these sandwiches
  • Scraper : Scraper allowing to scrape the plate inferior of the grill after each meat cooking
  • Shortening : Edible oil used for the cooking of the food
  • Steamer : Stove with vapor being used to heat the bread rolls intended for the preparation of the Nets o' Fish
  • Heels : Lower part of the bread rolls
  • Teflon : Anti-adhesive sheet placed on the higher plate of the grill to avoid with the meats hanging
  • Timer : Minutor used to indicate the time of conservation of the products beyond of which those should not be any more been used for the customers and noted in loss
  • Toaster : Apparatus used to caramelize the face cut of the breads before the trimming
  • Wash or Back Sink : Place for plunges (washing of the ustensils, dishes, etc…)

Counter

  • Back-up : Nobody “flying” who assembles the orders in case

  • Best Of : Small composed of a sandwich to the choice, an average chip, and an average drink. Best Of exists into maximum with large chip and large drink
  • Bin : Heating unit in which the sandwiches to the maximum forward 10 minutes before being been used for the customers
  • Happy Meal : Finely intended for the children, composed of a sandwich, a small chip, a small drink, a dessert and a toy
  • Finely Board : Their price and display board of the products
  • Finely Box : Display board of the prices
  • Pack Best Off : Hard-bound box allowing to pack intended products with the sale to carry
  • Shake or Sundae : Apparatus allowing to manufacture the milk shakes and the sundaes
  • Speedy : Nobody in charge of the assembly of the orders for the service at the wheel
  • Topping : Trimmings intended to cover the sundaes

Restaurant

  • Aquarium/Office : Small room located close to the kitchen in which the trunk is, the telephone. In general, it is the room reserved to the managers who acts as aquarium

  • Blitz : Complete evaluation of the restaurant by a representative of McDonald's
  • positive Room : Large refrigerator whose temperature is of 1 in 3°C/Quebec also called it Walk-in
  • Mister potato : Machine which automatically fills the baskets with chips, before the team-member takes the basket and deposits it in oil
  • Close : Period corresponding to the closing of the restaurant
  • Drive/SV/SOV : Service at the wheel
  • Hole : First counter of the service at the wheel being used for the payment of the order
  • Face to Face : In the restaurants with service at the wheel, counter for order taking where a team-member is vis-a-vis the customer
  • Squitgi (Expression in Quebec) : Tool of the grill which allows cleaned telfon (anti-adésive sheet) on the plate superior of the grill.
  • Clam (Expression in Quebec) : Replace the word grill.
  • CPF: Card-index control of the station : For each station of the restaurant, a detailed card indicates to the team-member all that it must do and the way of proceeding to carry out its tasks.
  • Plane of match/Plane Football-Field/of Quarter : Break into leaf or table of positioning on which the station and the work hour for each planned person are reproduced
  • Lobby/SM : Dining room customers
  • To manage shift/Shift leader : Nobody responsible for the restaurant on part of the day
  • McOpCo : Together restaurants managed directly by McDonald's, still called restaurants Company
  • Mop : wet Brush-floorcloth allowing to wash Off the ground
  • /Station-wagon : To be in rest
  • Open : Period corresponding to the opening of the restaurant
  • P&L : Operating statement reflecting the activity of the restaurant over the month and the year
  • PEP : Program preventive maintenance of the equipment of the restaurant
  • Playland/Parc Ronald : Adventure playground
  • Product Mix : Distribution of the total of the sales by products or share which represents each product in the total of the sales
  • QSP and V : Quality, service, cleanliness and value (program launched since several years aiming at giving an brand image to fast-food industry)
  • Remodel : Renovation works of a restaurant
  • Rush : Peak period in term of multitude
  • Seating : Plan of provision of the tables and the chairs in the room of the restaurant
  • Set-Up or Stock-Up : Period of filling of the condiments, bags, glasses, limp behind the case/In Quebec also called Stock-Up
  • Shift : Planned period of work
  • Spring up : Annual contest of the cleanest restaurant
  • Dry Stock : Products dryness or all products being able to store itself with room temperature
  • Top Gun : Designation of a restaurant which reaches perfectly the standards QSP and V
  • Trash or Compact : storage facilities of the dustbins

Foundation Ronald McDonald's

The Foundation Ronald McDonald was created in 1994 by the founder of the restaurants McDonald's, Ray Kroc. This foundation acts for the good being of the hospitalized children, and their family. With this intention, it has created for more than ten years of the Maisons of Parents Ronald McDonald , who allow the children to be surrounded by their close relations (as much the family, which classmates). According to its creator, these houses give to the children an emotional balance determining to them guérison.
In 1998, the Foundation created the Familles price in the middle, price rewarding the most emotional family. Then in 1999 the Meetings Families in the middle, to be made meet the various families whose children are hospitalisés.
There exist today several houses in France, including one with Lille, with Marseilles, with Villejuif, with Bordeaux, with Strasbourg, with Toulouse, and with Paris.
But throughout the world, there exists today more: 250 houses of McDonald parents who accommodate more than 5000 close relations.

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