Discover why making the Filet-O-Fish at home is the best choice—fresher, tastier, and with full control over every ingredient.

Lou Groen, who owned the first McDonald's restaurant in Cincinnati, Ohio, came up with the idea of a Filet-O-Fish sandwich in 1962, when he was making next-to-nothing on Fridays, according to ...

Filet-O-Fish sandwiches were originally a solution to a problem. In the early 1960s, a McDonald's franchise owner name Lou Groen was noticed his sales drop each Lent season as a result of his largely ...

The original recipe for McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish sandwich—developed by McDonald’s franchisee Lou Groen in the early ’60s, about 20 years after McDonald’s first opened—had no cheese at all.

The Filet-O-Fish sandwich has featured real fish since Groen wrote up the recipe in the ’60s (believe it or not). Whether the fish was sustainable, however, was up for debate.

The Filet-O-Fish is the gold standard of fast food for many Asian-Americans, as well as other minority American communities. Invented by an Ohio franchise owner in 1962, ...