In 1955, Ray Kroc visited a small restaurant in California. The owner of it was the McDonald brothers. They built it by the road, so people could drive up to the restaurant,buy food without getting out of their cars and drive away easily. Thry called it "drive-in" restaurant.
Ray Kroc saw the bright future of the restaurant of this kind, He boughe the restaurant and used the brothers' family name for his new restaurant. The first McDonald's chain restaurant was born.
Now in the USA, there're more than 5000 rustaurants and it has its chain restaurants in 60 other countries. The largest McDonald's restaurant is in Beijing, China. About 700 people can sit and eat there at one time. Many of the McDonald's restaurants have been built in other cities in China recently.

1955年，Ray Kroc到了加利福尼亚州的一家小餐馆。餐馆的主人是麦当劳兄弟。他们把餐馆建在路边，以便于人们不用下车就可以买到食物。他们称之为“驶入”餐厅。（汽车餐厅）
Ray Kroc发觉到这种餐馆很有前途，他就买下了这家餐厅，并以麦当劳兄弟的名字命名。麦当劳连锁餐厅的第一家餐厅就产生了。
在美国，现在已经有超过5000家麦当劳，而且连锁餐厅遍布60个国家。 最大的麦当劳在中国北京。大约可以容纳700人同时就餐。最近中国的很多其他城市也建起了麦当劳餐厅。