For the creation of the Big Mac hamburger is inspired by the so-called "Big Boy", a double hamburger sold by the Big Boy restaurant since 1936. The burger was created in 1936 by a franchise owner of McDonald's Jim Delligatti of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, was later marketed throughout the United States with the only modification to add extra slice of bread in the middle. Frank Berardi (former professor of biology at Uniontown Area High School, Pennsylvania) is attributed to himself the honor of being the first waiter serving. The McDonald's run by Jim Delligatti was demolished in 2001 and built a new restaurant in the same room with slightly larger than the old.BigMac Index
The Big Mac Index which publishes the weekly magazine The Economist since 1986, is based on the theory of purchasing power parity (PPP), that is, in theory the goods and services can be purchased with $ 1 must be the same anywhere in the world. Therefore the usefulness of this index is a statistic out of the change in purchasing power and reflect the overvaluation or undervaluation of the local currency compared to the U.S. dollar easily. This The Economist publishes the Big Mac price in local currency, in dollars (the official exchange rate), the PPP calculated as the ratio between the domestic price and the value of Big Mac in USA and this calculation takes the variation the official exchange rate and its relationship to the cost of the burger.Record of 25,000 BigMac
Don Gorske, a former prison guard retired U.S. ate his Big Mac of McDonald's 25,000 th exactly 39 years after they consumed the first hamburger, so the company held the record for one of its restaurants in Fond du Lac , Wisconsin.Man, 57, started taking these burgers at the age of 17 years in 1972 when he bought three so delighted that he bought three more and then returned for three more that day.
