Growing McDonald’s the Wright way
February is Black History month and a local Black businesswoman, Paula Wright, is celebrating 40 years as a McDonald’s restaurant owner. She owns, with her son Donny, sixteen McDonald’s franchisees, including the one in East Acton, not far from the Concord line. Their other restaurants are in eastern Mass and southern New Hampshire. Paula’s husband Don left his job in 1984 as the state director of ACTION, which oversaw federal programs like the Peace Corp and Vista, to open a McDonald’s in Lafayette Place at Downtown Crossing in Boston. He was the first African American to own a McDonald’s franchise…
