Editing Big Mac (section)

==History==
The Big Mac was created by [[Jim Delligatti]],<ref>{{cite book | last=Eldridge | first=D. | title=Moon Pittsburgh | publisher=Avalon Publishing | series=Moon Handbooks | year=2014 | isbn=978-1-61238-846-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ThbPBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT389 | access-date=November 7, 2017 | page=pt389}}</ref> who stated later he did not invent the Big Mac but merely copied the double deck hamburger marketed by the [[Big Boy Restaurants|Big Boy]] hamburger chain since the 1940s.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Grimes |first=William |date=2016-12-01 |title=Michael James Delligatti, Creator of the Big Mac, Dies at 98 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/business/michael-james-delligatti-creator-of-the-big-mac-dies-at-98.html |access-date=2024-02-21 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Mr. Delligatti operated several McDonald's restaurants in the [[Pittsburgh]] area. It was created in the kitchen of Delligatti's first McDonald's franchise, located on [[U.S. Route 19 Truck (Pittsburgh)|McKnight Road]] in suburban [[Ross Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania|Ross Township]].<ref name="test">{{cite news | url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19930504&id=z6kkAAAAIBAJ&pg=5788,2805664 | title= Golden Arch Angel | work= [[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]] | first= Barbara | last= Vancheri | date= May 4, 1993 | page= C1 | access-date= October 7, 2016 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160502024800/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19930504&id=z6kkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0G4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5788,2805664 | archive-date= May 2, 2016 | url-status= live }}</ref>

The Big Mac debuted at the McDonald's owned by Delligatti in [[Uniontown, Pennsylvania]], on April 22, 1967,<ref name="newbigmac">{{cite news|title=New! Big Mac [Advertisement]|work=The Uniontown Evening Standard|date=April 21, 1967|page=11|accessdate=April 22, 2022|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/27959874/}}</ref> selling for {{US$|0.45|1967}}.<ref name="newbigmac" /><ref name="delligatti">{{cite press release|title= Jim Delligatti Biography|url= http://www.mcdepk.com/bigmac/mediadocs/bio_Jim_MJ_Delligatti.pdf|publisher= McDonald's|year= 2007|access-date= May 18, 2011|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110726163742/http://www.mcdepk.com/bigmac/mediadocs/bio_Jim_MJ_Delligatti.pdf|archive-date= July 26, 2011 }}</ref>

It was designed to compete with Big Boy Restaurants' [[Big Boy Restaurants#The Big Boy hamburger|Big Boy hamburger]]. [[Eat'n Park]] was the Pittsburgh area's Big Boy franchisee at the time.<ref>{{cite news |title=Obituary: William D. Peters / President of Eat'n Park restaurants |url=http://old.post-gazette.com/obituaries/20000820peters4.asp |newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=August 20, 2000 |access-date=September 28, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213042837/http://old.post-gazette.com/obituaries/20000820peters4.asp |archive-date=December 13, 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref> The Big Mac proved popular and it was added to the menu of all U.S. McDonald's restaurants in 1968.<ref name="delligatti" />

The Big Mac had two previous names, both of which failed in the marketplace: the Aristocrat and the Blue Ribbon Burger. The third name, Big Mac, was created by Esther Glickstein Rose, a 21-year-old advertising secretary who worked at McDonald's corporate headquarters in [[Oak Brook, Illinois]].<ref name="bigmacname">{{cite news | url=https://apnews.com/4338738fbc4ed82ddfcd5700c17d6ebd | title=Woman Who Named Big Mac Finally Recognized | work=[[Associated Press]] | date=May 31, 1985 | access-date=February 22, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130613212414/http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1985/Woman-Who-Named-Big-Mac-Finally-Recognized/id-4338738fbc4ed82ddfcd5700c17d6ebd | archive-date=June 13, 2013 | url-status=live }}</ref>