"McDonald's exemplifies the role of small businesses in Americans' upward mobility. The company is largely a confederation of small businesses: 85 percent of it

"McDonald's exemplifies the role of small businesses in Americans' upward mobility. The company is largely a confederation of small businesses: 85 percent of its U.S. restaurants -- average annual sales, $2.2 million -- are owned by franchisees. McDonald's has made more millionaires, and especially black and Hispanic millionaires, than any other economic entity ever, anywhere." -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/26/AR2007122601485.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12...