re: What keeps McDonalds afloat?

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I've read before that McDonald's is essentially a real estate corporation

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#metoo

I read a book about McD's that said Kroc had owned the company for several years, and it was popular but not terribly profitable. Then he found some financial guru who showed him how to control the land the restaurants were on, and make a fortune that way. But I don't recall the details,