{"id":7981,"date":"2016-11-30T23:01:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T06:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7981"},"modified":"2016-12-09T23:05:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T06:05:49","slug":"inventor-of-big-mac-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/30\/inventor-of-big-mac-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Inventor of Big Mac Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>from FORTUNE<\/em><\/p>\n<h1>The Inventor of the Big Mac Has Died<\/h1>\n<p>by\u00a0<a class=\"article-byline-author\" href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/author\/stephaniecastillo2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stephanie Castillo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/en4muUSIRT4\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Michael Delligatti, the man who brought you the Big Mac, has died. He was 98.<\/p>\n<p>Delligatti, more affectionately known as \u201cJim,\u201d was one of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/fortune500\/mcdonalds-109\/\" target=\"_blank\">McDonald\u2019s<\/a><span class=\"tickershortcode quotecard_hook\" data-symbol=\"mcd\">\u00a0<\/span>first franchisees. He first created the Big Mac in 1967 at his Uniontown, Penn. restaurant,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mcdonalds-big-mac-inventor-jim-delligatti-dies-2016-11\" target=\"_blank\">Business Insider<\/a>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 50 years later, it\u2019s the same recipe served in chains today: two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions\u2014on a sesame seed bun (for those of you old enough to remember the jingle). McDonald\u2019s has been\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2016\/11\/03\/mcdonalds-big-mac\/\" target=\"_blank\">experimenting with the Big Mac\u2019s size lately<\/a>, offering both smaller and bigger versions of the sandwich.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2016\/11\/30\/mcdonalds-big-mac-inventor-dies\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at FORTUNE<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from FORTUNE The Inventor of the Big Mac Has Died by\u00a0Stephanie Castillo Michael Delligatti, the man who brought you the Big Mac, has died. He was 98. Delligatti, more affectionately known as \u201cJim,\u201d was one of\u00a0McDonald\u2019s\u00a0first franchisees. He first created the Big Mac in 1967 at his Uniontown, Penn. restaurant,\u00a0Business Insider\u00a0reports. Almost 50 years later, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}