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Mcdonalds: Case Study Of Mcdonald's Information System

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1.0 Introduction
In this assignment, our group choose McDonald’s corporation to study their information system. Besides, our group would like to choose Management Information System (MIS) to study their business operation.
1.1 Company name
Ray Kroc bought the service and the name of McDonald brothers. He is a salesman for a milkshake mixer supplier before he came across the McDonald brothers. In year 1954, he come across McDonald’s hamburger in San Bernardino, California which they call it as 'Speedee Service System '. Ray Kroc found that there is a small business that produced limited menu and concentrating on just a few items which is burgers, fries and beverages. This make them can focus on quality and quick service. Kroc tell his …show more content…

In year 1937, Richard and Maurice McDonald’s father opened “The Airdrome” which is a food stand in Monrovia, California. Hot dogs was the first item they sold. In year 1940, Richard and Maurice McDonald move to San Bernardino, California. They renamed the restaurant to McDonald Bar-B-Q. The brothers, sold 25 items in the restaurant and most of the items was barbeque. In year 1948, McDonald brothers found that most of their profits came from selling hamburger so they change their menu to just hamburgers, cheeseburgers and French fries. Besides, they change the restaurant to a self-service restaurant. The brother set up their kitchen like an assembly line so that they can improve their …show more content…

So for the input of this Hyperactive bob system is actually the photo that captured by this system (data) and it can immediately transfer this data into information for the internal of McDonald’s. It can be the number of cars and number of customers to let employees know these information and help in the order-taking use. For the output of Hyperactive bob system, the information (picture) that shown in the monitor is the output for the employees. The output from the monitor is very useful for the order-taking system because they know clearly everything around them and this helps the employees of McDonald’s to suit themselves in the workplace and handle anything that could

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