In an Interview with USA TODAY, McDonald's CEO Steve Easterbrook explained Thursday was selected as the release date for the brass-colored coins because it would've been the 100th birthday of Jim Delligatti, a McDonald's franchisee in western Pennsylvania who invented the Big Mac.
In an Interview with USA TODAY, McDonald's CEO Steve Easterbrook explained Thursday was selected as the release date for the brass-colored coins because it would've been the 100th birthday of Jim Delligatti, a McDonald's franchisee in western Pennsylvania who invented the Big Mac.
" The restaurant franchisee said in a statement he was sorry for the incident.
An established classic in the McDonald's family, the Big Mac was first created in February 1967 by an American McDonald's franchisee named Jim Delligatti in Pennsylvania, USA, before being rolled out across the world the following year.
