The CRAZY Truth About McDonald's

McDonald’s Movie - The INSANE Story of McDonald’s by MagnatesMedia… McDonald’s is the largest restaurant chain in the world, with over 40,000 restaurants spread over 120 countries. By this point, the golden arches are an inescapable sight everywhere you go, and McDonald’s has sold well over 300 billion hamburgers. But the original McDonald brothers who started the business, had their company all but stolen from them. Because what began as a single drive-in restaurant was soon transformed into a global fast food empire because of an unrelenting milkshake machine salesman (Ray Kroc). And even though it may appear to be a simple burger business from the outside, McDonald’s secretly dominates an entirely different industry completely unrelated to selling fast food. At times, McDonald’s is an inspiring story of an entrepreneur defying all the odds and building an empire. But at the same time, it's a story of betrayal, fraud, and countless scandals. At one point, McDonald’s even came face to face with the Italian mafia. If you’ve ever wondered how McDonald’s started, how McDonald’s got so big, or the truth about McDonald’s history & Ray Kroc / The McDonald Brothers, this McDonald’s documentary is for you. Let’s journey through the insane history of McDonald’s.

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⌛ Chapters:
00:00 Intro: The INSANE Story of McDonald's
01:05 Chapter 1: The McDonald Brothers
06:08 Chapter 2: Ray Kroc
12:04 Chapter 3: Grinding It Out
17:07 Chapter 4: The Recipe For An Empire
22:12 Chapter 5: The Real Estate Business
26:18 Chapter 6: Goodbye McDonalds
31:00 Chapter 7: Passing The Torch
37:38 Chapter 8: The McDonald's Monopoly Fraud
42:23 Chapter 9: Super Size Me

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[markschnabel]

Ironic that a mikshake salesman ended up being the top man at McDonalds who has challenges to this day with their ice cream machines

[chrystallee]

If McDonald's was basically developed by a successful milkshake machine salesman then, how come their current ice cream machines are always out of service?

[Seed]

At this point, these aren't mini movies anymore, they could be full movies.

[fozzyyi]

Biggest lesson I learned from this is never agree to a verbal agreement and instead always have it signed

[SqueaksUofA]

Rays biggest mistake was entering into the franchise contract. He should have just done what the other chains did and copy their system into his own fast food joint.

But the real estate idea was absolutely genius. I think the best part about Ray is the fact that all of his ideas pretty much benefitted everyone in the system, not just him.

Also, the fact that he took a kid from a fry boy into the board room that eventually helped the company succeed even more than it already was is evidence of how great Ray was at judging someone’s character. He probably saw potential in a lot of people that most could not.

[UnreasonableArticulo]

When I was a young kid, we had very little. The rare times that we got to go to McDonalds and get a Happy Meal with a toy was one of the only times we got something extra as kids.

[PSR]

Imagine being a descendant of the McDonald family, seeing your last name lighting up accross the world and not receiving a single cent for it. Bitterness would be an understatement.

[triznat]

Ray Krok did not "steal" McDonalds from the brothers, if not for Ray, McDonalds would have remained a single restaurant in California, and the brothers would have ended up with a fraction of what they got. Ray grew McDonalds to the worldwide phenomenon it is today, the brothers fought/hindered him every step of the way, they ended up millionaires thanks to Ray Krok.

[KZR]

Kinda ironic the bloody milkshake and ice cream machine never works anymore 😂

[brandyelainecraig]

I'm about to sound like a huge nerd... but I love videos like this... uncovering things I've never known or probably never thought of... I love learning the unheard history of things... Thank you❤

[GrimFowler]

"Netflix of Documentaries"
you aint kidding.
bro, you are beyond talented at this.

[timothydodson]

If you haven't seen it already, The Founder is a fantastic film that covers much of this story through a dramatic lens.

[putster]

I did a job for an old man who when he was a kid worked for a speedy's Mc Donalds and the old man who owned the franchise got tired of running it and just turned it over for free to this kid who was only 16 when he started working there. To this day this is one of the most successful McDonalds. About 10 years ago he sold the old speedy sign on the arches to the local mueseum for $100k.This old man was one of the most deserving as he was the humblest old man with money ive ever seen and didin't live like a rich man.

[Truthavision]

you talk hella weird, man. I get animating dialog to make it more exciting, but absolutely EACH and EVERY sentence, no matter long or short, starts high and always baselines on the final two syllables. Every single sentence you carefully make it a point to deliver the words at the same pitch and rhythm. What's the strategy with this? This has to be something you read about and started incorporating in your voiceovers. I can just tell. Thanks for the video, it's a great video. I just happened to be busy on my main screen with this on the second so I only listened and picked up on your dialog and then couldn't help focusing on it very heavily throughout the whole vid. You have a cool voice and accent, but again, you execute your voiceovers in a bazaar way with an extremely calculated flow. Makes me wonder if it came from some scientific study on how the human brain works and methods for keeping and holding attention or if you just decided one day to start each sentence on a peak and slope into perfectly into you last two syllable. Or maybe you don't even realize you do that. Lol. GD I am OCD AF

[mickeycee]

McDonald’s brothers sold their company. Nothing scandalous about that. You can tell from their history they wanted to be moderately wealthy and not work too much. At this point everyone knows about the McDonald brothers. They should have negotiated a permanent royalty tho. That’s generational wealth. That was dumb. Ray would have done it for sure. Nice work man, your docs are so well edited. A lot of footage that has nothing to do with the story but I see what your doing.

[FarleyMan]

1st time I ate Micky Ds was 1961. It was cheap and delicious. With Mom and Dad in the station wagon, all 9 of us had burgers, fries and a coke for less than $5.

[astarot]

Companies nowadays are the growing empires of ancient times. Each conquest calls for another

[davidpearson]

I live in France. Many years ago i met the man who had the first franchise in Paris. The french being french started changing the recipes by adding garlic etc. He had the franchise taken off him.

[bobSeigar]

Dang, subway has fallen. There used to be about 10% more subways in the world than McDicks.