PIQUA — McDonald’s restaurants across Mid-West Ohio and Eastern Kentucky are celebrating 50 years of ownership. After 11 years of operating three college bars in Toledo, Ben and Louise Scott applied for a McDonald’s franchise, opening their first restaurant in Piqua in 1974, said a press release from the Scott owned McDonald’s franchise. By 1993, they owned seven locations, and the Scotts participated in many milestone store openings, including those in Toronto, Washington DC, and Hong Kong. For the past 30 years their son Benny and his wife Stacy have been running the organization, which now runs 25 locations throughout Ohio and Kentucky. The Scott Family McDonald’s employ nearly 1,800 individuals across all locations.