McDonald’s Happy Meal inventor dies at 87

Published September 8, 2021 8:30pm ET



The inventor of McDonald’s famous Happy Meal died on Monday at the age of 87.

Yolanda Fernandez de Cofino, the former owner of Guatemala’s first McDonald’s, came up with the idea of a children’s meal in the mid-1970s, creating the “Ronald Menu” that would eventually become known as the Happy Meal, according to Newsweek.

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