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3. Mc Donald's
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

There are many restaurants in the world but probably the most famous is Mc Donald's. It has more

than 34,000 restaurants around the world in
119 countries and they serve about 68 million
customers every day. The story of Mc Donald's

began in 1940 when two brothers, Richard and
Maurice Mc Donald, opened a new restaurant
called 'Mc Donald's Famous Barbeque'. It was

a successful business but the brothers wanted
to sell more food and make more money, so
in 1948, they made some changes. They tried a

new way to cook and serve food faster making
Mc Donald's one of the first fast food restaurants

in the world. In addition, they made the menu
more simple: hamburgers, cheese burgers, sodas and milkshakes.

There were no waitresses to serve food, so customers ordered food by themselves at a counter.
In 1954, a man called Ray Kroc joined the company and later bought it for 2.7 million dollars. The

company is now worth many billions of dollars.

1. When did the story of Mc Donald's start?

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2. What changes did the two brothers make?

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3. How did customers order food?

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4. What was Mc Donald's called initially?

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5. Who bought Mc Donald's later?

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