McDonald's was founded in 1955 by Oak Park native Ray Kroc, who worked as a salesman of milk shake machines. Ronald McDonald® speaks more than 25 different languages. McDonald's has sold well over 100 billion hamburgers. McDonald's sell more...

The oldest known civilization of the Americas (1500 - 400 B.C.), The Olmecs, were probably the first users of cacao. Although chocolate drink was invented or discovered by the Aztecs, who called it xocoatl, it was only in the 18th century that solid...

In 1889, a Neapolitan - Rafaele Esposito backed pizza for King Umberto I and Queen Margherita, who apparently llike it. An Italian immigrant named Gennaro Lombardi opened the first U.S. pizzeria in 1895 in New York City. Pizza's popularity exploded...