Jim Delligatti and his sandwich

The city was Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Jim Delligatti was tinkering with a new sandwich for his restaurant which was a franchise for a national chain. Business was good, but it was going to get even better.

Jim worked ceaselessly on his sandwich. He used the grill at his restaurant during the day, and at the close of business he continued his work on his stove at home. By trial and error, Jim perfected his creation.

Jim introduced his sandwich, the Big Mac, to the public in 1967. McDonald's took it nationwide the very next year.

The world's waistlines have not been the same ever since.


Big Mac — 1967, in Uniontown, by Jim Delligatti, a McDonald's franchise holder, although credit is wrongly given to the city of Pittsburgh[citation needed]. (The Big Mac went nationwide in 1968).