About JD Swan INC. dba McDonalds

From drive-thru restaurants to Chicken McNuggets to college credits from Hamburger U, we've had quite a journey. And we're still going. But to take a look into our past, we need to share the story of one man.

Back in 1954, a man named Ray Kroc discovered a small burger restaurant in California and wrote the first page of our history. From humble beginnings as a small restaurant, we're proud to have become one of the world's leading food service brands with more than 36,000 restaurants in more than 100 countries.