Essay from the year 1999 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, language: English, abstract: Going for a walk through a deserted alley in the city at night, watching the stars shining above, it might not seldom happen that you notice a yellow glow from behind a corner. When having curiously turned around it, perceiving a creepy loud rumbling, you spot that the glow comes from a big shining M floating in the air. The symbol becomes bigger and bigger the nearer you walk towards it, your pulse rises and having finally reached the M you open the door of the McDonalds restaurant and enter to have a burger to stop the rumbling of your stomach. Meanwhile, there is a McDonalds in every big city at nearly every corner. But where does McDonalds originally come from? This thesis gives a summary of the history of McDonald's - one of the most widespread companies in the world.