The CRAZY Truth About McDonald's

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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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[@sketchingfish]

Yo

[@darkree6454]

I ate dog food last night :(

[@Beeify]

oo

[@Beeify]

lol hope u are ok@@darkree6454

[@Seed]

What's the music at 1:10?

[@markschnabel601]

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

[@yaknow5252]

😂 Boy... You never lied!

[@user-gu6fs6vp3s]

He was the milkshake guy he never found that guy again that time line died with him, and the ice cream machines with it...

[@user-mf1kv4lk2m]

I had the same thought 😂

[@Divorce_Help_For_Dads]

That is why they have milkshake machine problems. Deep dive into that one.

[@MrBrightcide]

It's because of a deal corporate has with Taylor (the ice cream machine company). Basically they build the machines to break and it's in the franchise contract that only trained Taylor tech are allowed to do repairs, and the repairs are not cheap. So yeah, basically corporate McDonald's and Taylor have a lucrative deal to rip off restaurant operators. You need special codes to do anything and people were getting them online so they could do it faster and cheaper, only for the restaurant operators to be sued by Taylor.

[@chrystallee5528]

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?

[@drahtid1]

I just hate when they say they say they out of ice cream. However its good to know that, because it mean they are cleaning it. Its usually around 7-9 pm then until the next day at lunch.

[@owoitsmrdonutgirl]

​@@drahtid1as a mcdonnalds worker i will make sure the icecream machine is up and running

[@Tiffer_77]

Because nobody wants to clean it simple. And yes I know if you’re asking 😂😂😂😂

[@woodworkingandepoxy643]

Fun fact. They aren't broken the employees are just too lazy to clean it everyday. Contact corporate and it'll be magically fixed in that location within a couple days

[@user-ht8vl5vh4e]

And why is it impossible to get a waffle at Waffle House? It should be renamed Hash Brown House because the waffle machines all have been broken since 1973.

[@Seed]

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

[@JacobJonesy]

Most of this video is basically a summary of the movie The Founder, many of the scenes and ideas from this video are directly from that movie.

[@txsilentknight]

45 min? Lol no movie is only 45 min

[@tommynorthwood]

It should be on Netflix. I'd watch the fukk outta this series:)

[@kylehaines5910]

Well it is a movie, the founder

[@Swaxol]

yup

[@ladyrose3285]

Fast forward to the 2000's and McDonald's Quality, service, and cleanliness isn't the same or at all.

[@user-ht8vl5vh4e]

They were futzing awful in the 80s and they were not Krusty Burger yet. When shakes were not chemical soup and the burgers were meat. Ever noticed how if you eat their biggest meal loaded with 3 days worth of grease and salt you are hungry an hour later?

[@erich6860]

Gotta feed the stock market beast. Ever since Reagan brought back stock buybacks, it's all corporations work for. They don't care about quality, they don't care about customer experience, they don't care about franchise owners. They only care about making profit to buy back their own stock and make millions in bonuses for the board.

[@fozzyyi5420]

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

[@Ezekiel903]

biggest lesson learned, how to destroy sane food and make an entire country obese!

[@lukechandra6233]

Yes, a verbal agreement is not worth the paper it is written on

[@user-ht8vl5vh4e]

As George Carlin said get teams of lawyers or you won't be sitting down for days. 😢

[@kobiecamp1134]

To me it's common sense that a handshake type of deal doesn't work in the corporate world.

[@TheFapFactory]

@@Ezekiel903broke n mad

[@KZ900R]

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

[@Texasmofo91]

The super funny thing is the owners of the ice cream machine is suing McDonald’s saying they’re lying about their machines being broken 🤣

[@AccipiterSmith]

It will be super duper awkward for Ray Kroc if he ever see what McDonald's had become.

[@destinixshakur]

isnt that so funny tho! wow!

[@user-xf4bd2lm8h]

Because it takes hours too clean

[@woodworkingandepoxy643]

​​@@AccipiterSmiththe same could probably be said for McDonald brothers themselves

[@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.

[@Mike.L.]

I'm right there with ya. We were on the lower end of the financial spectrum and going to McDonald's was always something to get excited about. :)

[@user-ht8vl5vh4e]

I do remember some of those toys. They are collector's items now. Our school teams would celebrate victory with DQ or McD and 20 Happy Meals at a time were simply fun with toy trading and stuff like that. Good memories.

[@AllThingsWithKelsey]

Yeah, me too, good memories though 😊 They use to have way better toys than they do now. It's crazy what toys they put in Happy Meals now 🤯

[@sophiapaulekas4767]

Same here

[@hvacrwrld1402]

80s kid. And we had to go into town to even see a mcdonalds. It was the best treat

[@GrimFowler]

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

[@PSR91]

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.

[@notforkfr]

lol

[@bbeezzyy]

They were just too stuck in their old ways. Innovation is one of the stepping stones of a successful business.

[@contenteater]

@@bbeezzyyEvolve or Die - Capitalism 🍔

[@HagakureJunkie]

The brother's were well compensated for their idea. $28 million dollars for a single restaurant and some basic ideas about making food? Not anyone's fault that the brother's were terrible negotiators. If I had been in their shoes, I would have said "Okay Ray, let's build this huge" but instead the brothers bogged them down and were small thinkers.

[@SqueaksUofA]

They can only be mad at their relatives that were too blind to the potential of their business. Not a single McDonald relative should be mad at Ray.

[@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.

[@bradleysanford6068]

Come on, I am capitalist, but it's

[@davidparker2882]

Today, ironically...you'll find more nutrition in a meat market dumpster.

[@wrmusic8736]

Ray probably was too decent (relatively!) to just steal someone's idea. It shows - compared to other businesses McDonald's very much played it fair towards the competition and what not. So he entered the unfair contract and had to deal with it for years, probably hoping McDonald brothers will be on board with him in his decisions.

[@SqueaksUofA]

@@wrmusic8736 McDonald’s brought the guys from other chains into their stores, so probably wasn’t the best idea from a competition perspective. Not stealing if they invite you in like “look at how we make burgers so quickly.”

[@putster47]

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.

[@ckdub1888]

So if you work hard and earn a lot of money you are less deserving of it, if you decide to spend and enjoy it?? That’s what you just said

[@davidpearson2205]

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.

[@HistoryRoar247]

Honestly props to you for an amazingly edited video for almost an HOUR! I love watching every minute of your videos and I simply can’t believe the research that went into these videos. Love every minute!

[@MoistTissues]

And there was me thinking that he had literally just copied and re-packaged the McDonalds thing from Netflix, almost frame by frame

[@HistoryRoar247]

@@MoistTissues I haven't watched the Netflix's video yet. Will give a look after this one.

[@Luxamare.]

Fr

[@godancs2]

you know it's hired editors doing that job? RIGHT?

[@HistoryRoar247]

@@godancs2 hired or not, someone should have the vision to make something happen. However, I wasn't referring to admin only, but to the whole team behind this channel.

[@bobSeigar]

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

[@cameroncole06]

Lol

[@RRM693]

Mac's better

[@unlisted9494]

You know subway got sold to Arby's right?

[@weidie2moro]

@@unlisted9494 now it's just gonna be crap now

[@kobiecamp1134]

Speaking of Subway, I love getting a 6 inch sub of tuna combined with a 6 inch sub of chicken strips(with everything on both of them except onions, and spicy stuff), and honey mustard & vinegar added.

[@urlcool]

I watch the Founder film so was expecting to learn more. But great to hear the true story and story were the film left off. Great work

[@bobwilliamson9562]

They should rename McDonalds to Kroc of Sh**

[@PtKroozin]

@@bobwilliamson9562good one bob

[@louisinese]

@@bobwilliamson9562Nice😂😅

[@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.

[@CarloAldo]

Yeah, the film made him out to look the bad guy when he did alot of work promoting it.

[@LifeOdysseyMotivation]

@@CarloAldo right. and the brothers should have asked and dealt with royalties

[@astarot610]

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

[@OliverCheers]

Please do the Disney story, it would be incredible, a 100 year company. your videos are epic

[@kootunesscrewy]

Finally. Stories behind animation studios (even if Disney became a company now).

[@alohajenn]

Not sure if folks are ready for the Disney Truth.... It's grossly Dark. Like Zuckerbucks just a Face for FaceBook, Ol Walt was a just a Face & CIA asset too, as well as 33rd degree Mason & I won't even get into all the symbolism in Disney cartoons all connections to Pedophilia!

[@kobiecamp1134]

The story behind Walt Disney is a dark one.

[@twistedpixel2558]

Now that 15 seconds for the same burger has turned into 15 minutes setting in the drive through.

[@morigahn]

And to this day, the milkshake/ice cream machine still doesn't work.

[@lp1043]

Yep, I don’t even bother asking anymore

[@javierdonatonavarro8156]

😂😂😂

[@ckdub1888]

I guess you don’t read comments before you write them. Literally like the 10000000 millionth comment saying the same thing. Or maybe you do and seen it got lots of likes and crave the attention of random people by copying other comments

[@timothydodson8396]

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

[@davidmacphee3549]

Michael Keaton film right?

[@LxShiriga]

i rarely watch a whole 50 minutes documentary video, props to the editor and this channel!

[@richardbrown-gt3dq]

With you. Hard to keep hooked.

[@Brian1Graves]

I tried a McPukes in the 1960's. A the time, their ads said McPukes quality was the same no matter where you went. I took that as fair warning and haven't been back since. 🤣

[@kobiecamp1134]

Wow, it's so disrespectful to call McDonald's the name McPukes.

[@Lewis_T]

And you’d be the smart one. The rest of us became cannibals thanks to McPukes.

[@Brian1Graves]

Are you sure? Meats shrink when cooked. McPuke's don't.

[@LifeOdysseyMotivation]

Do you know what "P u k e" means in the Philip[ines? 🤣

[@Brian1Graves]

@@LifeOdysseyMotivation No. I suspect I'd better google it rather than ask you to publish it here...YT being such a snowflake and all. 😉

[@ironic.]

I love how every single video has a new theme. your style of editing never gets old.

[@Mike.L.]

This was quite a compelling video! My compliments to the creator. This is the first I've heard about the Monopoly fraud. It pisses me off to learn that even though I bought considerably more McDonald's food when those promotions were running, I never had a chance at a substantial prize.

[@mickeycee8559]

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.

[@jackryan4313]

The footage is almost exclusively clips from the McDonald's movie, is it not?

[@Swaxol]

yeah

[@mickeycee8559]

Not necessarily criticizing. But there is a bunch of footage f from non related movies. Catch me if you can etc. dude puts a ton of work into these obviously, so like I said I get what he is doing

[@kobiecamp1134]

The scandal is how Ray offered them royalties, or something that wasn't in writing(if the story stands true), but later didn't fulfill his promise. And before you start telling me about how this was the brother's fault keep in mind I'm not defending anything. I'm just telling you what the scandal was.

[@roxanneharrow5274]

McDonald's drive thru: Welcome to McDonald's can I take your order? Me (anxiously): Is your ice cream machine working? SMH

[@Aalok_yt28]

Magnet media is giving direct competition to Netflix documentaries 😂❤ Love our work .

[@Lue_Serenity]

Ronald was roommates with Pennywise and John Wayne Gacy back in the day. Ya can't expect him to be a good guy clown 😆 LOL

[@user-ht8vl5vh4e]

Ronald didn't bother me much but that Burger King thing just horrified all the kids. My niece wouldn't have BK because of that.

[@tylerlienau7548]

John Wayne gacy gave a bad name to clowning. He even admitted it in an interview.

[@kobiecamp1134]

​@@tylerlienau7548Of course he did considering he was a serial killer.

[@CarloAldo]

He was a 'Good Guy'? You mean he also hung around with Chucky?

[@Diispaceyone]

Every time magnates uploads a video, it’s a treat! Love the channel.

[@austingeorge6659]

Always makes my day!

[@DreamProphet417]

TRUTH IS, every hamburger sold at Mc Donalds in every location, has human meat in the beef.

[@lizamwebb]

Have you ever read or heard anything that tells to what extent and how this is happening? I've always been curious about this.

[@chrlysweenie]

The fact that we get this for free is CRAZY! Well done!!

[@airplanemode870]

Recycled news and content bro easy basic edits bro wake up girl

[@duogamers9617]

@@airplanemode870then make this content. he's getting rich of it

[@LifeOdysseyMotivation]

@@airplanemode870 we know that most of the footage is from the netflix series. but editing is not as easy as you think. making this kind of video requires a lot of research and work.

[@legalizeneb]

Lol that's why McDonald's is cursed with the forever broken shake machine 🤣

[@user-ht8vl5vh4e]

And why Waffle House's waffle machines are eternally broken. 😊

[@miikakumpumaki2976]

Biggest mystery of all is the ice cream machine

[@AzHades520]

Morning shift has to clean it before leaving ... Lunch / Dinner shift just doesn't wanna deal with cleaning it at the end of the night.

[@amandap9332]

That's a scam against the franchise owners. They have to get specific, unreliable machines that display what might as well be gibberish that employees don't have a handbook to decipher. So, even if the problem is simple and easy to fix, such as the cleaning cycle couldn't be completed or the hopper is overfull, the code displayed can not be understood by the employees and they have to call in the repair company to fix it. I can't remember how this was resolved, but i think it started to be once the tracking apps that tracked which stores had their machines down started popping up. Which only happened because they always had so many machines down all the time. So, it became a noticeable problem that made McDonald's itself look bad.

[@SirDistic]

@@amandap9332The machines are programmed to go down. It's so that Taylor can fix it. Taylor is the only company allowed to work on them. The machines intentionally "break" every so often so that Taylor can get called in to fix them. Or that was the case until someone created a device to catch them and put it in several machines. The exposure caused McDonald's to fix the issue or risk a class action lawsuit from franchisees.

[@effyjonz]

​@amandap9332 yeah someone made a fix for it and then mcdicks tried to sue I believe

[@chrystallee5528]

I used to just throw my McDonald's Monopoly tags in the trash, sometimes unopened because, I never heard of anyone winning anything from McDonald's and didn't believe it was a real thing. Plus, I always received the same dang sticker everytime. I was convinced there was only one game piece printed.

[@TradeLikeChris]

i usually rarely like videos , but the amount of work and editing and professionalism is incredible hats off to you

[@MikeSiegert]

The crazy thing about the Monopoly winnings is that Jerome could have gotten away with a winning or two if he didn’t get greedy and decide to do it 15 more times 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@kobiecamp1134]

But that could be said about almost every culprit on "American Greed".

[@LifeOdysseyMotivation]

like the vietnamese lady who scammed the bank of $44 billion and is now sentenced to death. because of greed.

[@PatrickMcAsey]

What a superb video! Utterly compelling. I thought I knew quite a bit about the McDonald's story, having heard it in outline from several sources. However, I now realise that I knew very little. You have really filled in the gaps and have given the story context. Thank you for explaining the Monopoly scam, and the Morgan Spurlock 'Super Size Me' angle. At present McDonald's in the UK are in a a lot of trouble. McDonald's has just about the youngest workforce in the UK, as well as being one of the largest employers. MPs have received some 400 complaints about sexual harrassment, and such complaints are running at the rate of one or two a week. 18 people have been sacked. McDonald's say - as of course they would - that they take this extremely serious etc etc, but the truth is that when these young employees complained they were ignored.

[@brandyelainecraig9036]

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❤

[@mrs.berganzo]

This is personal and random but why do i feel like today, youtube has been feeding my anger and disgust about humanity 🤣🤭

[@raw_si_siht]

They know what you WILL watch... Not what you want to watch.

[@mrs.berganzo]

@@raw_si_siht yes , I know .

[@LifeOdysseyMotivation]

because we are waking up day by day. we learn many things from youtube that we didn't decades ago. It's like, many history books, schools, and giant media companies, etc. lied to us. And now with the advent of the internet, it democratizes the media industry and they are telling many things such as facts or true stories.

[@LuigiMordelAlaume]

0:26 "unrelenting milkshake machine salesman" Suddenly those McFlurry issues all make sense 😆

[@danelliott8548]

It's funny... The guy that stole McDonald's. Was a ice cream machine salesman.... Every time I have ever been to McDonald's the ice cream machine is broken.

[@RMSTitanicWSL]

Getting their ice cream products is a dangerous proposition anyway. They often don't clean them properly or often enough.

[@beezysbeatz4924]

Though it's obviously no longer this way, but my 2nd job when I turned 16 in 1983 was at a franchise McDonald's owned by Tony. That man and that job developed my desire to work hard AND work smart. "If you got time to lean, you got time to clean". Our uniform pants didn't have pockets because Tony didn't want our hands idle while on his clock. The work ethic I left that job with stuck with and served me well my whole life. Thanks McDonald's and more importantly thank you TONY! The customer was never wrong in the 80's and 90's. But then again customers never behaved like the plethora of TikTok videos we see these days. And the employees always smiled and said thank you as if we didn't want to be anywhere else. That builds customer confidence in loyalty.

[@CarloAldo]

I want to start a 'Whammyburger' fast food chain and have Chucky from 'Child's Play' as the mascot. We can even have a version of 'Happy Meals' containing real knives and guns and grenades etc, also collect tokens to get bigger stuff like Heavy machine guns and RPGs "WANNA PLAY?"

[@TheSuperJepphyKiller]

38:45 The way you use footage from Catch Me If You Can lmao

[@Real_g.s.]

Sixty years ago (an eon, I know) my father and I used to walk around downtown a lot. He would point out certain buildings and say "That building won't be here in ten years". He pointed to a walk-up McDonalds, (yep that's how long ago it was) the sign even said "Thousands served" LOLOL. He pointed to it and said "That won't be here in ten years, either". I'll be damned but he was right about every single building he pointed to *except* the McDonalds, which now occupies the entire block.

[@kobiecamp1134]

Well, your father wasn't so smart after all if he couldn't see the genius in McDonald's. Matter of fact he probably just figured almost nothing would last the next 10 years. So it wasn't like he was really analyzing these businesses. He was just doing a whole lot of assuming.

[@Real_g.s.]

@@kobiecamp1134 Pretty sure my father was a lot smarter than you.

[@kobiecamp1134]

@@Real_g.s. I doubt it.

[@Real_g.s.]

@@kobiecamp1134 LOL, he would definitely have a better comeback than that.

[@kobiecamp1134]

@@Real_g.s. I know what I know. And I have nothing to prove to you.

[@Klovar]

your scriptwriting and audio recording process is fascinating to me. there must be hundreds of iterations of both: how in the world do you work the entire audio voiceover so consistently? i can't imagine you record the voiceover over weeks: the sound quality means that you MUST do it in a day, but how do you reconcile the video and audio, especially with the pace over an entire long hour video that must have taken months to create visually? Great work John you inspire me

[@Puppetmaster2005]

He's secretly an AI. hahaha

[@user-mx7uv1pr1x]

​@@Puppetmaster2005 How can this be done with Ai?

[@Puppetmaster2005]

@@user-mx7uv1pr1x it was a joke...

[@duogamers9617]

@@user-mx7uv1pr1x he is joking

[@LifeOdysseyMotivation]

they are a team. there are other people behind this video. it is mentioned at the end of the video.

[@thesmackdaddy9888]

Serving billions of cold burgers on a global scale is truly a accomplishment

[@kobiecamp1134]

LMAO

[@CarloAldo]

With cardboard baps, soggy, chewy, inedible fries etc. Or maybe go to BK and wait half an hour for a sloppy whopper that cost x4 tines as much and try and eat it without the contents spilling out all over you.

[@kobiecamp1134]

@@CarloAldo And that's why you got to go to Wendy's instead.

[@alexb5177]

Not only that but I think they also coined the phrase, "Short Order Cook." Cause your order is always short something!

[@isoni9430]

We've had the story of Burger King, now it's time for the story of McDonald's.

[@kobiecamp1134]

Didn't you watch the video, just asking?

[@adarshadas3037]

BRO I HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING THIS CHANNEL FOR 3 YEARS AND YOU HAVE NEVER DISAPOINTED ME WITH YOUR CONTENT I LOVE YOUR CONTENT VERY MUCH . THE VISUALS,CINEMATOGRPHY STORY DETAILS IT WAS GREAT THANK'S FOR GIVING SUCH DETAILED INFORMATION

[@donatematchacookie]

People often confuse dropping out of high school is relevant to dropping out high school in today's standard. High school back then had university level academic teachings, before they start selling them as individual DLC in business colleges in 21 century lol

[@TeeTee-ii9vd]

I always look forward to these. Thank you

[@thamiradebe1222]

Your videos are great and informative. Kudos 🎉

[@Brian1Graves]

It has been a very long time since anyone described McPukes as "quality food". 🙄 Today, those shakes don't even have enough milk in them to be called "Milkshakes". 🤣

[@GavinMcAuley]

Loved you video. Well done indeed. Can I ask you, how difficult was it , or how did you go about using the film footage from the film? What way does copyright work in these instances

[@mclarenF1race]

I'm halfway into this video and again I'm engrossed thanks to your style of narrating and 'storyteller' voice!!! WOW!!! Cheers and need to listen to last part! 😂

[@mjgasiecki]

65 million dollars is a drop in the bucket for McDonald’s.

[@Skyskwatch297]

They forgot to add the part about feed lots. McDonald's wanted every burger to taste the same so they created the feed lot... And wait till you go down THAT rabbit hole 🕳️

[@sefgrt]

Your editing is just too good. I’m interested to know how long it takes to build the visuals for your edited? It must be 50 hours plus?!

[@cgil1974]

Ray had one brilliant mind for business. Wow. He is commendable in his own right.

[@michaelacosta3213]

Loving this channel every bit. Since we got ourselves all involved into these brothers, I would absolutely love to see Warner Brothers soon!

[@srikrishnachaudhuri1259]

I have been waiting for your new video, hope you make regular videos for now on 😁

[@hulleciiibowsz1214]

As great as always ! Thank u and Salute from Belgium ! :D

[@DeLorean4]

The monopoly scandal was a whole other level of scam in Canada. We NEVER got big prizes the whole time that third party ran the operation. I always found it weird that commercials showing winners would only be of Americans.

[@RoberinoSERE]

My first trip to McDs was in 1967 in the SF Bay Area for a burger. It was a rare occurrence to eat there before Big Macks and Quarter Pounders. We knew it was a treat only then 4 times a year maybe. Later it was often 4 times a week randomly in my 40s and 50s but no fries. The swop from saturated fat deep frying to Veggie oils did more to hurt our heath than anything as veggie oils were a con job by Ancel Keys of the CDC a vegan pathologist who facts on heart disease and cholesterol were made to fit his theory by lying and rigged results to match his prejudice against meat but not Smoking. Much like Dr. Anthony Fauci recently.

[@mamandapanda185]

I bet their food was so much better for you back in their earlier years

[@ash554433]

Wonderful video made. Appreciate your hard work, well researched and crisply presented…

[@wrestlingwithart]

How could Ray hate the brothers?! He owes everything to their hard work and ingenuity!

[@kadya1712]

He did most of their mutual job when it comes to opening new restaurants and they kept refusing to increase his percentage from a ridiculous 1.2-1.7 to make him a decent living, lol. They were the greediest partners I've heard of...

[@Rleatfitness]

He did most of the work while they got all the rewards

[@rileygshep7606]

The brothers may have also the foundation but it was ray who did 90% of the work whilst living on a very very bad pay, all the brothers had to was increase that service fee by a significant amount and they would have been fine

[@joeblow2069]

So starting 200 new stores in a 6 year period of time was not hard work? Ray Kroc was hired by the McDonald's to be a franchise agent in 1955. By 1961 he had added almost 200 new stores. The brothers did not do that. They did not have to leave their one store in San Bernadino. Ray Kroc made them rich. If starting hundreds of profitable restaurants is that easy you do it.

[@LifeOdysseyMotivation]

@@joeblow2069 Right. It was Ray's bold vision and entrepreneurial spirit that made the brothers rich and made Mc Donald's an empire.

[@ShaareiZoharDaas]

So .. The milkshake machine outages are revenge😂

[@daniellabolanos1430]

Great scriptwritting, I was hooked from the first second.

[@diamondturtle7954]

0:59 robots with man-buns

[@TheSacredGrove]

we coulda been eating Kroc Burgers if the brothers didnt sell lol

[@HistoryRoar247]

It's incredibly encouraging nowadays to see such professional and thorough content being created by sources without gigantic budgets. GREAT job guys😍👍👍

[@Teapotman2]

Bot

[@HistoryRoar247]

@@Teapotman2 and why do you think I'm a bot?

[@afafila]

@@HistoryRoar247 The comment gives off very heavy "bot" vibes, like every like farming comment "Omg guys your content is great" is spammed by everyone

[@HistoryRoar247]

@@afafila Oh okay! Sorry about that. Anyway, I recently discovered the channel and have watched old videos all time along. This was the first time I'm within the first hour of the video being posted. Maybe my enthusiasm was a little too much.

[@Teapotman2]

@@afafilathanks

[@vikvicttv]

Imagine buying McDonald's for a mere $28M...

[@pangaea6united]

Billions and billions

[@DosBear]

I miss the days of the 10 Cent burgers we used to get at McDonald's. I haven't eaten there in many years due to them giving me a hard time about putting lettuce on my quarter pounder. They outright refused to do it even when I agreed to pay extra for them to do so. I thought maybe I'd try again through the kiosk about a week ago and low and beyold you can't adjust your order there either. Officially boycotted. That's okay, I prefer real meat anyway. As a matter of fact, I haven't eaten in any restaurant in about 3 years. Not even to get a cup of coffee or a donut.

[@FarleyMan151]

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.

[@studio107bgallery4]

McDonald’s bros got Milkshaked

[@LifeOdysseyMotivation]

right. arrogance and idiocy in two.

[@wandac396]

The food was ok for the price at one time. But as the prices went up, the quality definitely went down. It’s probably been at least five years since I had McDonald’s and was disappointed.

[@CarloAldo]

Lately, every time I got a McDonalds I regretted it.

[@yohannbiimu]

I remember when McDonald's used to keep track of how many "millions" of their hamburgers they'd sold because they'd post the rough number on their "Golden Arches" signs. I even remember when the "quarter-pounder w/cheese" was a new thing. That was a LONG time ago. Now, you can't pay me to eat their "food". It's been at least ten years since I've eaten anything from a McDonald's.

[@MilatovichFamily]

"Gokden arches are inescapable wherever you go" Russia: "Hold my vodka, pizdjetz".

[@tabeetchokdesmondbessong4725]

McDonalds is really as mysterious as their food. Wtf they got there

[@Insect...]

Bro atleast watch the video first😅

[@arpan9937]

Humans 💀

[@Jeff_Biden]

my saliva

[@vidainvestor]

The worst cheapest and worst quality ingredients literally helping creating cancer in people

[@tabeetchokdesmondbessong4725]

​@@Jeff_Bidenthat wouldn't still be half as bad as the McD in my area

[@jonathonbaker-guntang4163]

Whether you hate them or not, McDonalds is a brilliant company. They aren't going away .

[@spacificnocean8534]

Mesnshile they lose more and more business all the time. Their answer? To raise prices more. Mcdonalds is becoming unaffordable and will most definitely disappear if they dont actually solve the problem

[@user1qaz2wsx3edc]

Reminder:Hate or not,IT IS ONE OF THE WORST FOOD THAT FEEDS CANCER CELLS.

[@ladyrose3285]

@@spacificnocean8534 Considering in California they just make a law that the minimum wage is 20 USD per hour. But the Franchisees are going to lose their McDonalds because they aren't going to be able to afford to pay that wage while not increasing the prices. The big customers for McDonalds was the poor and working class. Now and in the future, they won't be coming in that much or at all. Well maybe we will get skinnier people if they stop going to McDonalds. LOL

[@Creative_Monkeys]

@@ladyrose3285you fn with us right? The minimum wage goes to $18 in 2024, not $20, and people who make $10 an hr or $10 million an hr will still be in to purchase their $20 happy meal, after all you can spend $20 bucks at the store for the same amount these days. I know their fee isn’t that high. Quit playing us

[@benjaminollis7621]

They sell junk food and cut down rain forests

[@theinspiredclass1193]

This channel keep on inspiring me. Thanks magnetsmedia. I'm on my youtube journey. Sometimes I want to give up and quit but watching your videos give me energy to continue. I'm still figuring it out but i will be great like you one day. I really like how you started. ❤

[@brianofoz]

I'm surprised that Hollywood hasn't made a movie about this.

[@springrain9438]

They WILL.. Ive found SO many great pieces by journalists who shortly after there release, a streaming company or MSM will then cover it. Usually not as good as the original work. But ine of the only good things to come from social media are the common man journalists work. Well.. as much as until it gets censored. Especially this platform. Ir was AMAZING in its infancy.. during the wild wild west days, well over a decade now. Before all the censoring and control of the algorithms. Before, you could search, and find, information on ANY and EVERYthing. Especially all of the "controversial" or "taboo" topics we are not allowed to talk about. Now, when you search for importsnt events, there will be pages and pages of the MSM videos at the top and anything not approved just gone. So its no longer an accurate or free media source, but so long as you are just looking for common topics, or material that is allowed, its still a little better than MSM sources. Im sure I'm preaching to the choir..

[@riorussell8174]

Your editing skills is on point

[@danielirvine7468]

Great story telling mate a lot of work went in to this welldone

[@aaronoshea3453]

I've watched quite a few of these videos today and really enjoyed the longer form content. Not a fan of the multiple breaks to talk about sponsors or plugging websites- but the actual video content is really well done.

[@Eggzrgoood]

Bro, this guy has better content than the history channel.

[@LifeOdysseyMotivation]

in some ways, yes

[@Eggzrgoood]

@@LifeOdysseyMotivation In many ways, he keeps me focused on it somehow.

[@LifeOdysseyMotivation]

@@Eggzrgoood What is KZbin doing? I can't see my comment.

[@Eggzrgoood]

@@LifeOdysseyMotivation Idk, I can still see it but yt I can’t see mine

[@goldismoney5899]

Based on how you described the Macdonald brothers, I don't blame Ray's vindictiveness towards them. I never eat fast food, but when I did I preferred Burger King.

[@simbad909]

I watched a late 60s movie where the characters bought some combo at McDonald's..cost? $1.35 .. in the late 70s early 80s i used to get a big mac combo and apple pie... $2.75 and the "food" was decent. It didnt taste like cardboard nor made you need to find a bathroom moments after one was finished. I guess this is what they call " progress"??? 🤣🤣🤣

[@plasticoflamingo2952]

Same system as Henry Ford's cars. The cars are mostly gone, now, but McD's "burgers" last for decades, forgotten in the backseat of your car.

[@kobiecamp1134]

What do you mean the cars are mostly gone when Ford Motor Company is running strong.

[@Rleatfitness]

Not sure if there’s any truth to it but I read that the McDonald’s brothers bought shares in McDonald’s when it listed on the stock market, and they did end up making some money from the shares

[@persona2grata]

My first job in high school was at McDonalds. I...didn't completely love it, if I'm being honest. It wasn't terrible, but at the time the restaurant never paid employees more than minimum wage and they wanted you working every single second you were on the clock. I can still hear my manager shouting across the room "If you have time to lean, you have time to clean!" Blech. But most of the staff was young and we had fun on and off the clock together, so it wasn't all bad, apart from the fact that I couldn't bring myself to eat fries for at least 10 years after working there. Still don't appeal to me much, tbh. But I will say this: the thing that always, even as a 16 y.o. kid, impressed me was the efficiency of that place. Every single corner of that kitchen was designed so that even the most thick-headed kid in the world could be cranking out 12 burgers a minute the first day on the grill, with everything laid out in this incredibly intuitive way. It was impressive.

[@kadiejackson929]

Except for me. I was slow on the cash.

[@SeeNoEvil777]

The McDonald brothers not only had their business stolen from them but also their name.

[@LifeOdysseyMotivation]

Are you paying attention? Ray Kroc didn't steal it from them, if he did, they have sued him. They clearly have contracts and agreements in black and white. The biggest mistake the brothers did was the "verbal agreement."

[@everlonggaming1966]

The editor is a freaking God! Amazing!

[@Rambuda23]

Not me being happy to see that he have uploaded just to see his edits

[@federicobp]

Wow! This exceeded all expectations. The storytelling was masterfully crafted, seamlessly weaving together the intricate details of the business's journey. The narrative arc was not only compelling but also enlightening, providing a profound insight into the challenges and triumphs faced by all the people involved McD history. The video skillfully captures the essence of the business, making it more than just a documentary-it felt like a captivating story unfolding on screen. Thanks for creating such a truly engaging and inspiring viewing experience. Keep up the great work!

[@WilsonSilva90]

That's what happens when you copy it from the movie The Founder.

[@SweetTooth10]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@WilsonSilva90😂🤣😂🤣😂 I honestly think this guy just wanted to flex his ability to use etiquette wording on overly! expressing his appreciation on how well this was copied… I.. I mean presented to us. 😂🤣😂🤣😂 🤦🏾‍♂️ Humans are so annoying! But it’s probably his mom posting as someone else and trying to get her lazy son more views so he can move TF out. 🤣😂🤣😂😅

[@deaddove]

i have been binging your content lately. thank you for your effort man you dont even know me but im sitting here drinking wine and crying instead feeding into my insane interest in your content rn. i dont even know you but i love you

[@clajmate69]

one of the channel i enjoy watching documentaries, i learn a lot and the presentation is good. i love how the narration that hook me until the very end.