The restaurant that caught multimixer salesman Ray Kroc's attention was in San Bernardino. It may be an interesting and noteworthy fact that the Mac brothers own original restaurant was in Monrovia, and could be added to the article as a part of the Mac brothers history, but that's a separate deal from the franchise. The franchising began when the brothers were in San Bernardino. Technically, the first franchised restaurant was in Des Plaines, IL.  ''''