McDonald's people

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Ralph Alvarez

Ralph Álvarez (born 1955 in Cuba) is a Cuban-American businessman and the former President and Chief Operations Officer of McDonald's Corporation. Mr. Alvarez earned a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from the University of Miami in Florida.

Álvarez previous served as President of McDonald's North America and before that was President of McDonald's USA and Chief Operations Officer of McDonald's USA.

He graduated from the University of Miami in 1976 with a Bachelor of Business Administration.

Citing health reasons, Álvarez announced his retirement from McDonald's effective December 31, 2009.

As of December 2012, Alvarez now sits on the board of directors for Dunkin' Donuts.

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Maggie Anderson (activist)

Maggie Anderson (born Margarita; born 1971) is an American activist, CEO, and co-founder, with her husband John Anderson, of the Empowerment Experiment.

Anderson grew up in Liberty City, Miami, Florida and earned degrees at Emory University and University of Chicago. Her husband, John Anderson, is from Detroit, went to Harvard, and earned his MBA at Kellogg School of Management. They conceived the project after an expensive dinner at the posh Tru restaurant on Chicago's Magnificent Mile.

Anderson studied constitutional law under Barack Obama at Chicago Law School. She was an executive at McDonald's.

Anderson and her family spent a full year (2009) patronizing, as much as possible, only African-American owned businesses, eschewing all others. She wrote a book about the experience, reporting that in some fields, it was difficult to find black owned businesses, and that black people patronized businesses within their own ethnic group less than other ethnic groups.

Anderson has participated in successful political campaigns for Rep. John Lewis, Mayor of Atlanta Bill Campbell, and Barack Obama's campaign for U.S. Senate. She has done work for the RainbowPUSH Coalition.

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Haruko Arimura

Haruko Arimura (有村 治子, Arimura Haruko^?, born 1970) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan (the national legislature).

A native of Ishikawa Prefecture, she attended the International Christian University in Mitaka, Tokyo and received a master's degree from School for International Training in Vermont, United States and a Ph.D in international business from Aoyama Gakuin University.

Arimura was elected for the first time in 2001. She is affiliated to the openly revisionist organization Nippon Kaigi.

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Charlie Bell (businessman)

Charlie Bell (businessman)

Charles Hamilton "Charlie" Bell AO (7 November 1960 – 17 January 2005) was an Australian business executive. He served as president of the American-based fast-food chain McDonald's from December 2002, and additionally as chief executive officer from April to November 2004. Bell was the first non-American and the youngest person to hold that position.

Bell grew up in Sydney, Australia, and attended Marcellin College Randwick. Bell began his career at McDonald's at the age of 15, working at the Kingsford restaurant in Sydney. At the age of 19, he became the youngest store manager in Australian McDonald's history. At age 29 he was on the board of the Australian subsidiary, becoming its managing director at 33.

He quickly rose through the ranks of corporate McDonald's. Bell was appointed President and Chief Operating Officer, when Jim Cantalupo (former McDonald's International CEO) returned to the company on January 1, 2003 as Chairman and CEO of corporate McDonald's to lead a turnaround effort. Under Cantalupo's predecessor Jack M. Greenberg, the company suffered earnings declines in each of the last seven quarters. Shareholders were initially not impressed with Cantalupo and Bell's appointments as it suggested that the company was "inbred". However, Cantalupo "devised a plan" which included "accelerating the introduction of healthier foods, such as salads", and Bell's implementation of this policy led to the company's recovery in the succeeding 12 months. When Cantalupo died suddenly on 19 April 2004, Bell was appointed CEO while retaining his title of president.

During Bell's short time as CEO of the company, its greatest problem was criticism of the healthiness of its food, which was exacerbated by the release of the documentary film Super Size Me. Bell led efforts to add healthier choices to the McDonald's menu, and allow parents to substitute juice and apple slices for fries and soft drinks for their children. The "Supersize" option was also eliminated. During his brief tenure, his initiatives resulted in a successful turnaround in McDonald's fortunes, with the stock price rising 24%. Bell was also responsible for introducing the McCafé, a coffeehouse franchise that serves gourmet coffee, cakes and pastries and premium teas.

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Al Bernardin

Al Bernardin (February 17, 1928 – December 22, 2009) was an American restaurateur and businessman who invented the McDonald's Quarter Pounder in 1971 as a franchise owner in Fremont, California. The creation of the Quarter Pounder earned him the nickname "Fremont's hamburger king."

Bernadin later became McDonald's vice president of product development. His position allowed him to play a key role in the development of some of the company's signature menu items, including frozen french fries, which allowed for easier storage and transportation, as well as the McDonald's fish sandwich, apple pie and cherry pie.

Bernardin was born on February 17, 1928, in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He received his bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1952.

He was first hired to work at McDonald's Illinois corporate headquarters in 1960. Bernardin was promoted to dean of the company's training center, Hamburger University, within just six months of joining McDonald's.

Bernardin purchased two company-owned McDonald's in Fremont, California, and relocated to the city in 1970. He successfully expanded his McDonald's franchise business, eventually owning nine of the restaurants throughout southern Alameda County.

Once in Fremont, Bernardin began experimenting with new menu items for his franchises. In 1971, Bernardin introduced the now famous Quarter Pounder at his McDonald's locations. He explained his idea for the Quarter Pounder in a 1991 interview marking the 20th anniversary of the burger's development saying, "felt there was a void in our menu vis-à-vis the adult who wanted a higher ratio of meat to bun." Bernardin unveiled the Quarter Pounder using the slogan, "Today Fremont, tomorrow the world." The Quarter Pounder is now one of McDonald's most popular signature items, having been added to the national American menu in 1973.

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Jim Cantalupo

Jim Cantalupo

James Richard "Jim" Cantalupo (November 14, 1943 – April 19, 2004) was an American businessman. He served as chairman and chief executive officer of McDonald's Corporation until his sudden death by heart attack at the age of 60.

Cantalupo was born in Oak Park, Illinois, the eldest of an Irish-Italian family. His father was an optometrist and mother a homemaker. Cantalupo earned a degree in accounting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity.

He married, and had a daughter and son.

He became a certified public accountant and worked for Arthur Young for eight years before joining McDonald's. Cantalupo started at McDonald's as its controller in 1974, became vice president in 1975, and senior vice president in 1981. He became president of McDonald's International in 1987 and its CEO in 1991. He lost the top job to Jack Greenberg and retired as McDonald's International CEO in 2002.

Cantalupo returned on January 1, 2003 as CEO of McDonald's. Shareholders were not impressed, thinking that his appointment indicated that the company was "inbred". However, credit was given to Cantalupo for the company's recovery in the succeeding 12 months: "he devised a plan" which included "accelerating the introduction of healthier foods, such as salads".

Charlie Bell, the company's president and chief operating officer, was chosen to succeed Cantalupo as CEO but stepped down the following November 22 to seek treatment for colon cancer, being succeeded by vice chairman Jim Skinner as CEO and by Michael Roberts as president.

Cantalupo previously served on the board of directors of Sears, Roebuck and Company. He was attending a McDonald's convention in Orlando, Florida when he was stricken with a heart attack and later died.

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George Cohon

George Cohon

George Alan Cohon, OC OOnt (born April 19, 1937) is an American-born Canadian businessman who is the founder and senior chairman of McDonald's of Canada and McDonald's of Russia.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, he received a B.Sc. from Drake University and a Juris Doctor degree from the Northwestern University School of Law. He practiced corporate law in Chicago from 1961 through 1967. In 1967 he moved to Toronto, Ontario, as the licensee of McDonald’s Corporation for Eastern Canada. In 1971, he became chairman, president and chief executive officer of McDonald’s Restaurants of Canada.

He was involved in opening McDonald's in the former Soviet Union with the first restaurant opening in Moscow in 1990. The first restaurant was at the time McDonald's biggest, and was opened with minimal involvement from the U.S. parent company, for political reasons. It accepted only Russian rubles, not hard currency, and in the early days, the line to enter the restaurant could be several hours long. Due to Soviet supply shortages, the company created its own supply chain in the Soviet Union, including farms and packaging. At the 1991 G7 Summit in London, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (Cohon's personal friend) personally complained to Mikhail Gorbachev about the difficulties Cohon was experiencing doing business in the Soviet Union.

He is the founder of Ronald McDonald House Charities, which provides accommodation for families whose children are receiving medical treatment, in Canada and in Russia.

He is a member of the board of directors of McDonald's Restaurants of Canada Limited and was on the board of the Royal Bank of Canada as well as on the Board of Astral Inc. before it was taken over by Bell Canada. He was a member of the board of governors of York University between 1982 and 1995.

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Dan Coudreaut

Dan Coudreaut (born November 8, 1965), better known to his colleagues as "Chef Dan", has served as the Executive Chef and Vice President of Culinary Innovation at McDonald's since joining the restaurant chain in 2004.

Coudreaut started his culinary career washing dishes in a local restaurant in his hometown of Ossining, New York, a town located an hour north of New York City, at the age of 14. In 1995, he graduated from the Culinary Institute of America (CIA). He then went to work at Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts in Dallas, Texas. In 2004 he joined McDonald's.

After graduating from the Culinary Institute of America, Coudreaut was hired as executive sous chef at Café Pacific before moving on to become the club chef at The Four Seasons Hotel, both of which are in Dallas, Texas. In 2000, he moved to the world of chain restaurants, joining Metromedia Company's Ponderosa Steakhouse and Bonanza Family Steakhouse chains as director of culinary product development. He joined McDonald's in 2004, taking over as Executive Chef from Chef Rene Arend. As Executive Chef, Coudreaut's main responsibility is helping the creative team of chefs ideate and develop new menus for McDonald's approximately 14,000 restaurants by brainstorming and testing hundreds of menu items each month.

Coudreaut's accomplishments have been recognized through many honors and accolades throughout his career, including being listed among the NRN 50:R&D Culinarians by Nation's Restaurant News in 2003. In 2006, he received that magazine's Chef/Innovator MenuMasters Award.

He also sang lead vocals in Chef Dan and the Appetizers, a classic rock band formed by McDonald’s employees in 2008 to raise money for Ronald McDonald Charities.

Coudreaut was responsible for the addition of several items to McDonald's national menu, including:

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Steve Easterbrook

Stephen James Easterbrook (born August 1967) is a British corporate executive. On 1 March 2015, after being chief brand officer of McDonald's and its former head in the UK and northern Europe, he became the CEO of the company, succeeding Don Thompson, who stepped down on 28 January 2015.

Stephen James Easterbrook was born in August 1967. He grew up in Watford and was educated there at Watford Grammar School for Boys. He studied natural sciences at St Chad's College, Durham University, where he played cricket with fellow student, Nasser Hussain, the former England cricket captain.

After university, he trained as an accountant with Price Waterhouse. Easterbrook first worked for McDonald’s in 1993 as a manager in London. In 2011 he left to become CEO of PizzaExpress and then CEO of Wagamama, two British casual dining chains, before returning to McDonald’s in 2013.

He is married with three children, who visit McDonald's two or three times a month. He lives in Illinois and is a Watford FC football fan.

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Jim Delligatti

Jim Delligatti

Michael James "Jim" Delligatti (August 2, 1918 – November 28, 2016) was an American entrepreneur. Delligatti was an early franchisee of the fast food restaurant chain McDonald's, opening the first of his eventual 48 branches in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1957. Delligatti is also credited as the creator of McDonald's "Big Mac" hamburger in 1967.

Michael James Delligatti was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, on August 2, 1918, the son of James Delligatti, a farrier, cobbler and candy maker, and his wife, Lucille Dandrea. He was educated there and at Fairmont Senior High School in Fairmont, West Virginia, before serving in Europe during World War II with the United States Army, where he was discharged after suffering from trench foot.

After the war, Delligatti owned a drive-through restaurant in Newport Beach, California and, after meeting Ray Kroc at a restaurant fair in 1955, Delligatti started as a McDonald's franchisee in 1957. His franchise was based in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, about 40 miles (64 km) south of Pittsburgh, and his holdings grew to 48 stores.

Delligatti thought up the concept for the Big Mac in 1965 and started serving it at his Uniontown McDonald's in April 1967 for 45 cents. By 1968, the Big Mac was on the menu of every American McDonald's, and in 1969, it accounted for 19% of total sales. According to a 1970s jingle the burger contains: "two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame-seed bun."

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