The mascots and cartoon history of McDonald's
The Founder is a movie that tells the history of McDonald's, the biggest fast food restaurant company in the world. While the story focuses on Ray Kroc and how he turned the McDonald Brother's restaurant into a full fledged franchise, there is another history on McDonald's that should be mentioned: their mascots over the years. McDonald's mostly had one mascot that superseded all of them: Ronald McDonald, but McDonald's had more than one mascot over the years. That is our story. When McDonald's first started in the late 1940's, they used this character named Speedee. He was a hamburger headed chief named after the idea that you can get your food quick and easy. Burgers of course were the #1 thing to get at McDonald's (still are), so it was only natural to use a burger as a mascot. When McDonald's began to be fully franchised, it was decided that the new logo should represent the golden arches. The logo used at the time around 1962 wa...