Was McDonald's Stolen?

Charles Peralo explores the history of the famous fast food chain and the film "The Founder" to answer the question: was McDonald's stolen?
Written and Narrated by Charles Peralo
Edited by Christopher Betancourt
Produced by Scotty Dunne

[@Charlesperalo]

Hey guys, hope you enjoyed this video and if not, give me feedback in the comments! I’m trying to get some sponsors on board, which will make doing longer videos like this a 1-2x a week thing, but so far haven’t loved the view count. Want to know if that’s a me thing or just where the algorithm is out for us now. Anyway, appreciate feedback!

[@Jedindy]

Quality content, Charles 👍Very informative as always! I like the set up and the plant. I remember enjoying our conversations about Better Call Saul when those episodes when were first coming out on TV. I think you would do well making an occasional movie review.

[@RandomguyfromtheinternetN1]

This is great. Hope you have a great day

[@NinajeanYates-fq7gm]

Diffinitly not the you thing

[@NinajeanYates-fq7gm]

💯

[@kevinm4701]

Bold move with the Big Mac lol. Great content and evolution of the channel. I would like to see a personal review of the how you grew the channel to be honest. Thank you

[@JaelaOrdo]

And a follow up question, was the Hamburglar responsible?

[@RandomguyfromtheinternetN1]

Yes

[@Vortii791]

100% responsible

[@robinbrowne5419]

No. It was Ronald McDonald. They just invented the Hamburglar to shift the blame off of Ronald. A common courtroom tactic :-)

[@colbydavis781]

@@robinbrowne5419mayor mccheese will be investigating

[@robinbrowne5419]

@@colbydavis781 Yup. And sampling the evidence 😋🍔

[@officialcappo]

hi poll boy

[@villainsexplained9294]

The Founder is one of my favorite movies in recent years, and seeing the real life history it was loosely based on is a treat. Great video Charles.

[@mikkitaylor7849]

This is very interesting! I'm surprised this video doesn't have as many views as it deserves. I guess the algorithm is truly a harsh task master because you did a very good job on this!

[@imathreat209]

The Founder is an excellent movie

[@patrickcringe]

Poll boy makes videos???

[@CalebFrezza]

Polls don’t pay the bills

[@seeanthonyn]

I really like this longer format videos. You managed to condense so much facts in the short amount of time along with your analysis. How about doing a video about AIR next? Havent seen it but I will soon

[@JollyRoger1969]

Always liked your shorts on here, good video. Too funny at the end when you said: "Not for me". 🤣

[@tophmagoph]

Great video! The Founder is one of my favorite movies... For some reason, this video seemed to flow so much more smoothly than the others youve put out recently. Not that the others are bad, but your storytelling and the editing are coming together as one so much more seamless now. stoked that you're doing a couple of these a week now!

[@someguyfromgoogle1481]

890k subs with barely 8k views is insane

[@Charlesperalo]

Hey there highly supportive and positive individual! KZbin has multiple algorithms, where it can be divided into shorts, regular video and community. I’ve done well with shorts at 830 million views and community, with 1.9 billion impressions last year, but I’m new to long form and I’m trying different things. My longs are seeing about 40,000 views as the average, but this video was an experiment and while I think we did a good job, it wasn’t a mass market topic. So well… Your criticism has been acknowledged and ignored.

[@papapalpy]

⁠​⁠@@Charlesperalo BEST way to ignore somebody; responding to them in depth

[@someguyfromgoogle1481]

@@papapalpy Literally, I despise this pretentious creep.

[@Djm8520]

It was not stolen, the McDonald brothers made a bad deal. The one brother, who invented the McDonald’s ’process’ was a real know-it-all. He drew up the original licensing/franchisng Agreement and he accepted the Severance Agreement without benefit of a lawyer. People who think they don’t need a lawyer, suffer the consequences‼️

[@doddsino]

It was actually a very good deal in 1961. The McDonald's company wasn't worth a million dollars, let alone 2.7 million. Ray was doing all the work without Dick and Mac lifting a finger, so the business absolutely fails without Kroc at the helm.

[@Djm8520]

@@doddsino No it was a lousy deal, because they THOUGHT they had 5% of the company going forward in perpetuity. Stick to what you know!

[@sarahcook7292]

Hey Charles! I really enjoyed this video and the last video. I think maybe even deep dives on subjects like this would do well

[@jamalsalads]

Can you change your name to poll boy

[@shreklover3945]

This video was great!! Keep it up with the long form contnt too man!

[@josh24441]

I had a neighbor that was a franchise owner of 3 McDonald’s and I can tell you, that part where Ray Crock reworks the contracts to where McDonald’s own the land AND your required to lease their equipment is very true. In order to buy a McDonald’s you have to sell them the land you want to use. And if you want to open a McDonald’s you can only use their equipment, AND you have to lease it.

[@benjaminstarks4071]

Great video. Thanks Charles.

[@sinakaedwards2009]

I have a saying, "Life is boring, it is the storyteller that makes the difference."

[@diff1608]

Another good video we want more👌

[@robertpearson8798]

Having seen this movie a couple of years ago I came to the same conclusions as your final analysis. The McDonald brothers may have had some good ideas but they were incapable of doing what Kroc did with them. I think that everyone involved got appropriate compensation.

[@farhanscave4639]

Very well edited ❤

[@Saddy231]

Hopefully the algorythm helps you take off this video. Good luck charles

[@Charlesperalo]

My Dan Schneider video so far has about 25,000 views in the 2-3 day mark, which is the biggest win so far. I obviously am hoping for a lot more, but curious if you think this is worthy of a million views?

[@Official.Prez.Graves]

@@Charlesperalo -Nice audio -Nice music choice -Professional setup -Informational -Entertaining Definitely worthy of one million views

[@HughR2007]

Great job, Charles!

[@nicoalexander774]

Without going into any research whatsoever, I’m going to say the answer to this question is: yes. ❤

[@jameschristenbury2625]

Based on what?

[@sammiller3242]

"Boom, Like That" by Mark Knopfler (lead singer the Dire Straits) is a great song that tells this story

[@jpgr8937]

I love the Big Mac at the end. 😂😂😂 I've never had one either.

[@RyanWillDoIt]

The movie is fantastic

[@DiegoRodriguez-cs1ow]

Your videos are awesome dude your cadence is good for content creation/consumption. But keep the topics fresh and maybe some that haven’t been smashed in like this one, you got a lot of talent and should put out more content(longer videos) just because we’re not hungry to learn about McDonald’s (no pun intended) we are hungry for content and want to learn more so from a fellow man keep going and keep the content rolling man even the most successful people feel like failures at times that’s why they have thee most success. I can tell you’re doing good so keep doing you brother

[@1anastudent]

Main answer, yes. The movie did sensationalise some of the issues. It also glossed over others. Like Kroc was married 3 times

[@ooonyxxx]

Nope they got bought out and took a horrible deal

[@mrfacestab5758]

Movie - The Founder

[@skrrskrr99]

Ironically McDonald's milkshake machines are always "broken". I haven't had a mc donalds milk shake in years.

[@robbychin-a-loi7292]

I have never seen the movie so I only have your information about it, but indeed a lot seems to have been shown and explained in it, that is not consistent with the truth. I am very happy to have seen this video about the history of McDonald, thanks to you Charles👍🏽. By the way, you always make me a lot wiser, thanks 👍🏽👍🏽

[@aspireahead8388]

HOW IN THE HELL CAN YOU NOT LIKE A BIG MAC!!!! Especially to the point where you have to spit it out... 🤷

[@Based_Gigachad_001]

Him knowing walt disney is crazy.

[@JohnWaters-yn4bf]

Bruh I didn’t even know you had videos

[@Lgames91]

Just getting McDonalds right now💀

[@fishmen_sensei]

great video!

[@WEBPMAFIAONYOUTUBE]

Interesting breakdown

[@RobMedellin]

I also think I've never tried a Big Mac, but if I did, I guess I would prefer one just prepared or at least re heated. Very cold burgers suck.

[@hi-ef8eh]

Interesting video! Only problem I have was the color of the text in the titles of the sections.

[@mrfunatparties6763]

Makes you wonder how much better fast food would have been

[@benjaminmatte5225]

That damn Hamburglar lmao

[@user-jm6mt1en2c]

You should do a story on the USPS because they have been doing shady s*** to their employees and the way how they're always hiring. Yeah thats because people are quitting or getting fired. Believe me i know because i use to work for them

[@garylefebvre2456]

No, the docu-movie did show Ray Croc’s wealth. You can obviously see it in the big house that he lived in, the car that he drove, the beautiful wife that he had before replacing her with a younger ‘make and model’ (one of his franchisee’s young wives), and the rich investors whom he knew and recruited from the country club of which he was member of. But this required you to read into the docu-movie though, and/or to put two-and-two together. The docu-movie only showed 10-20 restaurants because they couldn’t really show the whole of what Ray Croc was doin' on a massive scale, even though they alluded to it in the movie that he had become ‘nation wide’ though. So they had to show how Ray did all the groundwork and up, but that he was ‘sleazy’ about how he did it all! He did do a handshake with them, but if you don’t have it on paper-the deal you’ve made, well it sucks to-be you, because you have rely upon their word to keep their end of the bargain with you, sadly. What you got right was that if Ray Croc didn’t do what he did, McDonald’s never would’ve made it out of San Bernardino! The McDonald brothers had no vision, nor did they understand that what Ray was offering them in exchange for their ‘creative control’ was worth its weight in gold, quite literally! And after seeing the empire that Ray Croc had amassed, they stupidly decided to take it on, thinkin' that they were goin' to win 'cause THEY were the original founders of McDonald’s. What the movie also got right was that the McDonald brothers were real ‘sticklers’ too (a stickler is a person who is non-flexible and insists on a certain way and/or quality or type of behavior and who won’t budge on their position either [they won’t adapt to change])!

[@wewhoareabouttodiesaluteyo9303]

nationwide* to* thinking*

[@bigman4407]

Nice essay

[@razablanco3766]

Remember when you argued with me that illegal immigrants were not a strain on taxs..... Now what

[@Charlesperalo]

I hold that stance and statistically, I’m correct, where undocumented immigrants do pay taxes, would pay more if allowed to and aren’t taking benefits.

[@razablanco3766]

@@Charlesperalo tell that to chicago and NYC bc they are going beyound broke with just a fracti9n of what texas has

[@AspiringSpaceWizard]

Your shirts abit big

[@Nitrous0x]

I didn't have anything McDonald's related until I was 18. I wish I wouldn't have lol.

[@NovaStarfox113]

He looks like the person who plays Jesse on full house 🏠

[@stephaniehowe0973]

Your community post came across my feed. Telling us about Tom & his nasty email. So watching this & commenting just to stick it to Tom.

[@Yugiohburst495]

Can’t blame you for spitting out the bite you took out of that Big Mac I don’t like them either 😂

[@jokerofmorocco]

The McDonald's brothers might've started it, but Ray Kroc was the one that turned it into a multi-billion dollar franchise. The McDonald's brother were OK with being decently wealthy and didn't built the brand in the same way Ray Kroc did, so Ray Kroc did deserve most of the credit

[@wewhoareabouttodiesaluteyo9303]

The movie made it seem like he did it without their consent. If you take someone's business, buy a franchise from them, and grow it; that would be underhanded. If you bought a franchise from them, owned that, and then created your own business, and then expanded that; it would seem like then he would be deserving of whatever he created.

[@jaybodenhamer2544]

😂 spitting out the big mac is exactly how i feel about McDonald's in general. Their food is low quality trash

[@Charlesperalo]

I don’t want to knock what people like, but my god that was awful.

[@Pero-zl4jp]

@@Charlesperaloyou lived in NY all your life and never had a Big Mac? Honestly that’s impressive. I haven’t had McDonald’s for 7-8 months now and I don’t plan to eat there again.

[@andrewlee3037]

@@Charlesperalo ....to be fair, i didn't see any lettuce spilling out of it nor mac sauce-covered fingers/face....looked just like meat and buns....fake mac! (not that a real one is that great either) LOL!!! great vid, actually never saw the movie but now i'll check it out

[@Charlesperalo]

@@Pero-zl4jp Reason is I find clowns creepy, so never did McDonald’s much as a kid.

[@jameschristenbury2625]

Egg mcmuffin and McGriddle are the best they have. Good food

[@user-zh5lj1ec4k]

I just find it funny how a dude like this with his voice promotes celebrity gossip shorts. He should be narrating stories and stuff lol but I like him better for it. Keep doing what you’re doing bro. 👍🏻

[@Charlesperalo]

You like my voice?

[@franchescadavis4180]

Yes I love your voice@@Charlesperalo

[@Iraniwegian]

I love McDonalds

[@ArgoX2007]

Never had a Big Mac?! 😮

[@SparkleP8nter]

Technically his burger doesn't look like it even has lettuce or sauce, just meat & bun... Is it even a real Big Mac?

[@ArgoX2007]

@@SparkleP8nter it did look off. I love Big Mac’s but compared to other chains, it is not the best burger. At all.

[@nilabaker9150]

Yes from brothers

[@earthlingandextra]

about your community post question earlier...maybe it's about seeing you spit the big mac into the bag! 🤢😆 jusssst kidding. 🙃 i like this video. the topic is interesting, the way you speak is clear & soothing. it's good visually. you're a good looking dude so that doesn't hurt. 😄 some of the music was kinda off to me...but that's just looking for something to be picky about. idk...i'm going to watch more vids...

[@callibor3119]

Well, someone else, like Ray Kroc, have seen Walt Disney in person. But who worked with Walt, from Oregon, is Mike Royer and Carl “The Duck Man” Barks on the worldwide known Donald Duck Comics. I am very curious who else in Oregon and across the 50 states have made media with Walt Disney himself and not just Ub Iwerks and Hugh Harman, who both worked with him on animation during Universal before Walt Disney Animation Studio in 1923.

[@wewhoareabouttodiesaluteyo9303]

I have seen*

[@callibor3119]

@@wewhoareabouttodiesaluteyo9303 I am making edits.

[@callibor3119]

@@wewhoareabouttodiesaluteyo9303 Walt Disney is the center of all controversies right now in America. The more people we know that have met with Walt Disney, the sooner people will have a different outlook on Walt himself and every other business owner during those eras, the sooner we can piece together connections to this big monopoly boom that has led to today.

[@wewhoareabouttodiesaluteyo9303]

@@callibor3119 Disney stole Mickey Mouse from someone like Kroc did McDonald's.

[@callibor3119]

@@wewhoareabouttodiesaluteyo9303 And Walt Disney and Ray Kroc have stuff in the early 1900s that’s public domain. The more we read on their origins, the more we can get behind the big companies through our own medias.

[@marlenepearson3936]

Okay. Yes! There ARE better hamburgers 🍔 out there. But I can't believe you spit that out 😮 😅

[@vansketch]

You will soon get your goal

[@begoodalwaysbegood9519]

Michael Keaton is the Jack of all roles on screen and off. In Jesus Christs name we pray amen.

[@chrisdeal9879]

I just want to know what was wrong with the Big Mac?

[@jameschristenbury2625]

It came from Macdonalds

[@chrisdeal9879]

@@jameschristenbury2625 nah. I was looking for specifics to why it sucked.

[@Pero-zl4jp]

Interesting had no idea about any of this. Regardless, the soulless corporation had to start somewhere.

[@alexatedw]

I’ve been to ray crocks grave

[@roncardenas2963]

Why eat there when you can get a really good restaurant meal for the same price?

[@KIKROX86]

Yes, in my opinion, it was stolen

[@rickiboulter3053]

I stopped eating McDonald's after I watched that movie. F'k McDonald's

[@WaTahBasTard]

The Entire Time I was watching the movie I was completely on Krocs side, in the movie we see He was doing all the hard work while the McDonald's brothers just sat around and kept telling him no to all his ideas to help make them more profit and his wife just sat around and mooped without even offering to help.

[@wewhoareabouttodiesaluteyo9303]

He did hard work, but he could have created a business against McDonald's and then do what he did. You cannot take someone else's creation and then expanded on it and then think you did nothing wrong.

[@travisbrown9936]

I think u talk a little to fast, other than that it’s pretty good

[@ricksaunders8074]

The Brothers didnt have to sale Ray pushed malt machines He saw a vision The Brothers dudnt see I've never liked those nasty burgers Look at every chain they sold out Domino's Pizza Pizza Hut Burger K8ng

[@eze3922]

poll boy move, wtf

[@PopsikleShop]

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[@peacebaby74]

It was Grimace😂

[@choriqueso9958]

Didn’t know bro did more than desperate annoying polls

[@timberlin4075]

ikr. day = ruined

[@stever089]

Hunts bros absolutely dont count

[@SparkleP8nter]

Great video. Never seen the movie but McDonald's was my first job ever so this was interesting. But your Big Mac doesn't even look like a full big mac... Wheres the lettuce? Is there even sauce? It looks like just meat & bun, and that isn't a bic mac without the rest... A big mac would be a lot messier than what you had, and lettuce is the messiest ingredient. The box should be littered with lettuce and sauce. jmo

[@Charlesperalo]

Hey, this one has the lettuce and sauce, but maybe it was a smaller one. I asked for an ordinary one. Glad you liked the video!

[@SparkleP8nter]

@@Charlesperalo the McDonald's I worked at was notorious for making everything wrong, perhaps this is the case. The McDonald's I worked at doesn't exist anymore because nobody ever did anything correctly. Lol 🤣 And technically I think there's only one size for Big Mac, (though they have gotten smaller through the years)

[@phillee8262]

Mmmmm delicious 😋

[@jbridge7962]

I want to subscribe, but you never had a big mac before? It's not for everyone but never? Jk, just added you to the list

[@eightball3454]

Ok I'll say it. This guy is incredibly McHot.

[@Charlesperalo]

Thanks!

[@1anastudent]

The big Mac is weirdly sweet. I don't like them

[@Carlos.Rivera]

The sauce, ask no sauce when order it again

[@user-fk1zt7il4c]

Yes I watched the movie he stole it

[@mrchoon2010]

Youre an ai?

[@EXT3RM1NATE]

I AM FIRST.

[@malenurse1999]

Good video. When I watched the movie I was very disappointed in it. It was just a typical victim mentality movie with about 10% reality

[@AsterionH]

The true story is much less interesting than the movie. LOL

[@dhyde9207]

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