Quote Originally Posted by MMI View Post
McDonald's was started by two brothers. Not a dear little old lady and her husband, but I thought it was close enough. The fact that they turned themselves into a huge worldwide corporation answers your question.
But they did so by providing quality food (each to his own opinion, of course) in a clean environment at a reasonable price. If their first restaurant had been a dingy, dreary dump with roaches crawling all over the counters and poor quality food they wouldn't have gotten anywhere.