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The story behind McDonalds Fastfood.


In 1954, a fifty-two-year-old milk-shake machine salesman saw a hamburger stand in San Bernardino, California, which belonged to two brothers, Richard and Maurice McDonalds. And envisioned a massive new industry: fast food.


The McDonald brothers' restaurant was unlike any Ray had ever seen. In contrast to the popular drive-in restaurants of the time, it was self-service, had no indoor seating, and the menu was limited to cheeseburgers, hamburgers, fries, drinks and milk shakes, all of which were produced in an assembly-line fashion that enabled customers to place their orders and receive their meals in less than a minute.

Kroc quickly calculated the financial rewards possible with hundreds of these restaurants across the country. But when he approached the McDonalds with the idea, they told him they weren't interested in doing it themselves. So Kroc offered to do it for them. The brothers agreed, and gave Kroc the exclusive rights to sell the "McDonald's method".

Ray opened his first McDonald's in April 1955 in the Chicago suburb of Des Plaines. He used the meticulously clean and efficient restaurant as a showcase for selling McDonald's franchises to the rest of the country. For each franchise he sold, Ray would collect 1.9 percent of the gross sales. From that he would give the McDonalds one-half percent. 

Then Kroc met Harry Sonnenborne, a financial genius who showed Kroc how to make money-not by selling hamburgers, but by selling real estate. Under Sonnenborne's plan, Kroc set up a company that would purchase or lease the land on which all McDonald's restaurants would be located. Franchisees then paid Kroc a set monthly rental for the land or a percentage of their sales, whichever was greater. By owning the land the franchises were built on rather than just the franchises themselves, Kroc was guaranteed a profit. With his real-estate formula in place, Kroc set out to fulfill his goal-opening 1,000 McDonald's from coast to coast.

But there were problems. Kroc continually clashed with the McDonald brothers over changes he wanted to make in their original formula. Kroc became increasingly frustrated and decided he wanted control of McDonald's all to himself. So in 1961, he bought out the McDonalds for $2.7 million-cash.

Without the rights to their own name, the McDonalds were forced to rename their restaurant "The Big M". So Kroc opened a brand-new McDonald's one block away and put "The Big M" out of business.

Kroc maintained the assembly line "Speedee Service System" for hamburger preparation, which was introduced by the McDonald brothers in 1948. He standardized operations, ensuring every Big Mac would taste the same in New York or Tokyo. He set strict rules for franchisees on how the food was to be made, portion sizes, cooking methods and times, and packaging. Kroc also rejected cost-cutting measures like using soybean filler in the hamburger patties. These strict rules also were applied to customer service standards with such mandates that money be refunded to clients whose orders were not correct or to customers who had to wait more than 5 minutes for their food.

By the end of the decade, Kroc had met and surpassed his goal, with nearly 1,500 McDonald's operating worldwide.

By the 1970s, McDonald's was the largest food supplier in the country and would remain so through the next two decades. At the time of his death on January 14, 1984, a new McDonald's was opening on average every 17 hours. Ten months later, McDonald's sold its 50-billionth burger.

Dare to dream. Without a dream that thing you are doing has no life. The McDonald Brothers had a name. Ray Kroc had a dream. To them, they were selling a name and just another cooking business. To him, he was buying his future.

WHAT DO YOU SEE? It's never too late.
Moses began his ministry at 80. Ray Kroc was 52 when he discovered his dream about McDonalds. 
YOU TOO CAN DREAM AGAIN.
DON'T LOSE YOUR FUTURE.
DARE TO DREAM.

The Balanced Life

I grew up being taught by my parents as well as my teachers in school that there is something called "Balanced Diet".

Truth is, if you want to have a healthy body that grows in stability of mind and body, they were all very correct on this principle of nutrition.

God Almighty also believes in this principle.
Colosians 2:10  says "And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power".
Matthew 23:23  says "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone."

There is something called THE BALANCED LIFE. Where you don't have too much of a particular thing nor too little of some. You can have something of everything to aid you in becoming the PERFECT MAN that you were meant to be. "For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:" (Isaiah 28:10).

What does it mean to have a balanced life? 
It means not always hanging around your friends when your spouse is alone at home.
It means closing early from work to spend time with your family.
It means having enough money in your pocket to foot your bills.
It means taking out time to read enough to improve yourself even as we are in an information age.
It means not rushing off to work without studying your bible and praying.
It means finding some time to go to church to receive instructions for your life.
It means not being lazy and sleeping at home till 10am in the morning because you have got to go to work.
It means having some love in your heart to visit an orphanage home once in a while
It means. . . 
it means. . . .

I can go on and on. The list is inexhaustible such as our recipes and menus are inexhaustible. But we have got to strike a balance in everything we do. Anything short of that, we will be living an unbalanced life, and just as the body is malnourished and deficient in certain things it needs to function perfectly, so also will we be deficient in various things, financially, emotionally, psychologically, and otherwise.

STOP! Reconsider your life. Do a rethink. Fall in line. Live a Balanced Life.

Be useful at home, at the office, to society, in church. 
THIS IS WHAT IT MEANS TO LIVE A LIFE OF VALUE.

Life Is Beautiful.

A Life Of Hope

Ecclestiastes 9:4  says "For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion". 

Imagine such a phrase: A LIVING DOG IS BETTER THAN A DEAD LION. In other words, that dog has more value than a ferocious lion. Why. The lion is dead,  but the dog yet lives. For the lion, life is ended, but for the dog, there is still hope.

If you are reading this page right now, know that there is yet hope for you today than even that person you've always envied and admired who is dead. The fact that you draw breath through your nostrils is proof positive that life isn't through with you yet.

Thus, like my pastor, Rev. Chris Oyakhilome would always say: "DON'T LET GOOD THINGS HAPPEN TO YOU, NEITHER LET BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO YOU. . .YOU MAKE THEM HAPPEN" In other words, you are the determinant factor of your future and destiny. Don't take what you see in life. No! You had better not just take what life serves you. You get into your own kitchen and prepare your own meal.

You were meant for the top. Archbishop Benson Idahosa would always say "THE SKY IS TOO VAST FOR TWO BIRDS TO COLLIDE" Therefore, if you are envious of another man because he is rising higher, then you have a small heart and do not deserve the place of lofty affluence. 

Therefore, enlarge your heart to accommodate your future. IT IS BIG. Dream big, value yourself,  and increase your vessel to receive in abundance what life has to offer.

Welcome to my world.
Life is Beautiful!!

Life is Beautiful!

If you didn't think Life is Beautiful, then you are on the wrong planet. RELOCATE.

The Beautiful life

Life is indeed beautiful. Many see life as boring. but on the contrary, I find it interesting. There could be challenges, but that makes it the more interesting.

I heard a story about two people who had to give a report on the true position of their glasses of water. One person said "the glass is half full". The other said "the glass is half empty". You see, both glasses were half. One had 'full' in mind; the other had 'empty' in mind. One was optimistic, the other was pessimistic. You can choose which side to belong.

ENJOY YOUR LIFE!!!

. . .Joy cometh in the morning.

Just relax! Don't let that challenging situation get to you.

The Bible says "weeping may endure but for a night, but joy cometh in the morning".

What I like about this scripture is the part ". . .joy cometh in the MORNING" Relax! Your joy is here.

The thing about people is they don't realize that 11:59am is still morning. So since they don't see what they expected to show up by 9:00am they give up. No! Hold on until your morning is over. And I bet you, it won't be before your JOY has come.

RELAX! YOU ARE STILL IN THE MORNING OF YOUR LIFE. YOUR JOY IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER.