McDonald's 2

McDonald's #2 was a McDonald's drive-in restaurant located at 4050 North Central Avenue in Phoenix, Arizona. It was the first franchise location in the chain and the second overall, after the original restaurant in San Bernardino, California. It also became the first McDonald's location built in Stanley Clark Meston's prototype design, and to feature the golden arches.

History
The franchise was licensed by Neil Fox, a distributor, partnering with his coworkers Burdette "Bud" Landon and Roger Williams (also Fox's brother-in-law). For a franchise fee of $1,000, they received a copy of Meston's plans and one week of training in the McDonald's Speedee Service System. The were surprised when Fox chose to call the new location "McDonald's" rather than "Fox's," leading them to fear that a failure of the Phoenix restaurant would reflect badly on them.

The restaurant's official opening was held on May 8, 1953, with a "sneak preview" soft opening for customers the previous evening. By the time it opened, Fox was partnered with Fred Fitzgibbon and Bob Dahlberg, while Williams and Landon went on to open McDonald's #3 in Downey, California in August 1953.

After the McDonald's Corporation was established by Ray Kroc in 1955, and went on to take over ownership of the chain from the McDonalds, the restaurant remained independent of the corporation for some time before it was bought out. A scene in the 1969 film  was filmed at the restaurant. Along with nine other McDonald's locations in the Valley, it was sold by franchisee LKF Management Co. to the McDonald's Corporation in 1976.

With the closure of the original San Bernardino location in 1957, the restaurant became the oldest operating location in the chain. It closed on June 27, 1986, and was replaced by a new McDonald's two blocks to the south, McDonald's #7835, which itself is now closed.