McDonald’s Quarter Pounder with Cheese TV Commercial with Roger Miller – May 1986

Roger Dean Miller Sr. (January 2, 1936 – October 25, 1992) was an American singer-songwriter, widely known for his honky-tonk-influenced novelty songs and his chart-topping country hits “King of the Road”, “Dang Me”, and “England Swings”.

After growing up in Oklahoma and serving in the U.S. Army, Miller began his musical career as a songwriter in the late 1950s, writing such hits as “Billy Bayou” and “Home” for Jim Reeves and “Invitation to the Blues” for Ray Price. He later began a recording career and reached the peak of his fame in the mid-1960s, continuing to record and tour into the 1990s, charting his final top 20 country hit “Old Friends” with Price and Willie Nelson in 1982. He also wrote and performed several of the songs for the 1973 Disney animated film Robin Hood. Later in his life, he wrote the music and lyrics for the 1985 Tony Award−winning Broadway musical Big River, in which he played Pap Finn in 1986.

Miller died from lung cancer in 1992 and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame three years later. His songs continued to be recorded by other singers, with covers of “Tall, Tall Trees” by Alan Jackson and “Husbands and Wives” by Brooks & Dunn; both reached the number one spot on country charts in the 1990s. The Roger Miller Museum — now closed — in his home town of Erick, Oklahoma, was a tribute to Miller.

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McDonald’s Corporation, doing business as McDonald’s, is an American multinational fast food chain, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States. The brothers’ business, which started off as a hamburger stand, soon became the company franchise as it is today. The Golden Arches is now the company’s logo, which was introduced in 1953 at a location in Phoenix, Arizona. In 1955, Ray Kroc, a businessman, joined the company as a franchise agent and, in 1961, bought out the McDonald brothers. Previously headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois, it moved to nearby Chicago in June 2018. McDonald’s is also a real estate company through its ownership of around 70% of restaurant buildings and 45% of the underlying land (which it leases to its franchisees). McDonald’s has over 40,000 restaurant locations as of 2024. The restaurants serve in total over 69 million customers daily, in over 100 countries.

McDonald’s is the world’s second largest fast food restaurant chain by number of locations, surpassed only by Chinese chain Mixue Ice Cream & Tea as of September 2024. McDonald’s sells hamburgers, cheeseburgers, and french fries. Other items on their menu include chicken, fish, fruit, and salads. Their bestselling licensed item is their french fries, followed by the Big Mac. The McDonald’s Corporation revenues come from the rent, royalties, and fees paid by the franchisees, as well as sales in company-operated restaurants. In 2018, McDonald’s was the world’s second-largest private employer with 1.7 million employees (behind only Walmart with 2.3 million employees), the majority of whom work in the restaurant’s franchises.

Also, McDonald’s has been subject to criticism of its effects on the world, like obesity, low worker wages, and negative impacts on the environment.

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