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Posted on 4/22/17 at 10:04 pm
Posted on 4/22/17 at 10:04 pm
The SO and I just watched it. Very good movie. Interesting story.
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The true story of how Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), a struggling salesman from Illinois, met Mac (John Carroll Lynch) and Dick McDonald (Nick Offerman), who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers' speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. Kroc soon maneuvers himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a multi-billion dollar empire.
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Posted on 4/22/17 at 10:49 pm to boogiewoogie1978
Recently saw this and it was a great watch. I didn't really know the history of McDonald's to that degree and it makes me curious about other fast food chains. Kroc was cold blooded.
Also maybe an old timer would know...with the system the brothers use and their resistance to growing too much I imagine the quality of a McD's hamburger was pretty good back in the 50s-60s, no?
Also maybe an old timer would know...with the system the brothers use and their resistance to growing too much I imagine the quality of a McD's hamburger was pretty good back in the 50s-60s, no?
Posted on 4/23/17 at 8:44 am to boogiewoogie1978
Great movie. The M brothers had horrible legal counsel, should have had that 1% clause in writing.
Posted on 4/23/17 at 9:16 am to boogiewoogie1978
I'm torn on Ray Kroc. He pioneered the industry, but was horrible to the brothers. They definitely didn't help hemselves.
Posted on 4/23/17 at 9:40 am to boogiewoogie1978
great movie! I didnt know the history of mcdonalds either. Funny how things take off with the right guy pushing the buttons 
Although he had some help 
Although he had some help This post was edited on 4/23/17 at 9:42 am
Posted on 4/23/17 at 9:54 am to Starchild
quote:forgot where I read it but I remember reading they were the best hamburgers in America
with the system the brothers use and their resistance to growing too much I imagine the quality of a McD's hamburger was pretty good back in the 50s-60s, no?
Posted on 4/23/17 at 10:07 am to Byron Bojangles III
quote:ironic that they now have the best fries in the country but the burners are meh at best
forgot where I read it but I remember reading they were the best hamburgers in America
Posted on 4/23/17 at 10:19 am to EnglebertHumperdink
Great movie. Keaton gets better with age, IMO.
Kroc was ruthless but smart to buy the land the restaurants were on.
And the McD brothers were stupid not to get the .5% profits written in a contract.
MickeyD's sucks now but I love the original restaurant with the arches!
"Did Ray Kroc renege on his handshake deal to pay the McDonald brothers a percentage of the revenue from the franchises?"
"Yes. After the brothers refused to give Kroc the original restaurant, he supposedly cheated the brothers out of the 0.5 percent royalty agreement they had been getting, which would have been valued at $15 million a year by 1977 and as high as $305 million a year by 2012 (according to one estimate). In his book, Kroc wrote, "If they [the brothers] had played their cards right, that 0.5 percent would have made them unbelievably wealthy." Relatives of Richard and Maurice McDonald say that Maurice (Mac) was so distraught that it attributed to his eventual death from heart failure a decade later. -Daily Mail Online
305 million per year by 2012!! That's a lot of damn money.
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Kroc was ruthless but smart to buy the land the restaurants were on.
And the McD brothers were stupid not to get the .5% profits written in a contract.
MickeyD's sucks now but I love the original restaurant with the arches!
"Did Ray Kroc renege on his handshake deal to pay the McDonald brothers a percentage of the revenue from the franchises?"
"Yes. After the brothers refused to give Kroc the original restaurant, he supposedly cheated the brothers out of the 0.5 percent royalty agreement they had been getting, which would have been valued at $15 million a year by 1977 and as high as $305 million a year by 2012 (according to one estimate). In his book, Kroc wrote, "If they [the brothers] had played their cards right, that 0.5 percent would have made them unbelievably wealthy." Relatives of Richard and Maurice McDonald say that Maurice (Mac) was so distraught that it attributed to his eventual death from heart failure a decade later. -Daily Mail Online
305 million per year by 2012!! That's a lot of damn money.
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Posted on 4/23/17 at 10:24 am to NOLApurpleandgold
I bet the McDonald brothers grandkids are pissed right about now
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