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Message #173628 posted by Dabullz (Info) March 27, 2008 08:14:18 ET
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/26/obit.peterson.ap/index.html
A Southern California McDonald's restaurants official says Egg McMuffin
inventor Herb Peterson has died in Santa Barbara at age 89.
Egg McMuffin creator Herb Peterson with his breakfast idea in 1997.
Monte Fraker, vice president of operations for McDonald's restaurants in
Santa Barbara, said Peterson died peacefully at his home Tuesday.
Peterson came up with idea for the signature McDonald's breakfast item in
1972.
He began his career with McDonald's as vice president of the company's
advertising firm, D'Arcy Advertising, in Chicago. He wrote McDonald's first
national advertising slogan, "Where Quality Starts Fresh Every Day," and
eventually became a franchisee.
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