Easy and fun McDonald's documentary

Turner 2022-03-25 09:01:08

At first I thought the protagonist was the founder of McDonald's. Seeing that the protagonist was selling around, I thought he later worked hard to found McDonald's. After looking at it, I realized that McDonald's already exists, and the male protagonist is just a later salesman. The overall context of the film is fairly clear, and the history of McDonald's is told in an interlude. It starts with the male protagonist who goes to McDonald's for the first time to buy a hamburger and expresses his amazement that it only takes him thirty seconds instead of half an hour to get what he ordered. From the drive-in restaurants that were popular in the United States at that time, we talked about its various disadvantages: for example, the waiters often served the wrong dishes, it took a long time to wait, it often attracted a customer base of gangsters and bad teenagers, and a lot of operating expenses. In order to solve these problems, they decided to disassemble the details one by one. For this, they concentrated all the staff on the tennis court for a few hours and finally simplified all the operation procedures. However, of course, things will not be so smooth. Everyone is used to the way of the drive-in restaurant, and is confused about this new type of restaurant that requires you to order food instead of sitting in the car and waiting. Then the male protagonist proposed to get a franchise and open a chain store, and the restaurant operator said that they had already opened it: there are five restaurants in various places, and then their branches are completely different from the main store. The dishes there Very complex, bad taste and messy environment. They said that their energy was beyond the reach of the branch. Until the male protagonist saw the sign of the golden arches in their office, everything ushered in a turning point...

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The Founder quotes

  • Dick McDonald: I just have to ask you one thing. Something I've never understood.

    Ray Kroc: Alright.

    Dick McDonald: That day we met, when we gave you the tour...

    Ray Kroc: Uh huh. What about it?

    Dick McDonald: We showed you everything. The whole system, all of our secrets. We were an open book. So why didn't you just...

    Ray Kroc: Steal it? Just, grab your ideas and run off, start my own business... using all those ideas of yours. It would have failed.

    Dick McDonald: How do you know?

    Ray Kroc: Am I the only one who got the kitchen tour? You must have invited lots of people back there, huh?

    Dick McDonald: And?

    Ray Kroc: How many of them succeeded?

    Dick McDonald: Lots of people started restaurants.

    Ray Kroc: As big as McDonald's?

    Dick McDonald: Of course not.

    Ray Kroc: No one ever has and no one ever will because they all lacked that one thing... that makes McDonald's special.

    Dick McDonald: Which is?

    Ray Kroc: Even you don't know what it is.

    Dick McDonald: Enlighten me.

    Ray Kroc: It's not just the system, Dick. It's the name. That glorious name, McDonald's. It could be, anything you want it to be... it's limitless, it's wide open... it sounds, uh... it sounds like... it sounds like America. That's compared to Kroc. What a crock. What a load of crock. Would you eat at a place named Kroc's? Kroc's has that blunt, Slavic sound. Kroc's. But McDonald's, oh boy. That's a beauty. A guy named McDonald? He's never gonna get pushed around in life.

    Dick McDonald: That's clearly not the case.

    Ray Kroc: So, you don't have a check for 1.35 million dollars in your pocket? Bye Dick.

    Dick McDonald: So if you can't beat'em, buy'em.

    Ray Kroc: I remember the first time I saw that name stretched across your stand out there. It was love at first sight. I knew right then and there... I had to have it. And now I do.

    Dick McDonald: You don't have it.

    Ray Kroc: You sure about that?

    Ray Kroc: Bye Dick.

  • Ray Kroc: Look, if you don't wanna make a profit, that's fine.But don't stop the rest of us.

    Dick McDonald: Us?

    Ray Kroc: Us, as in everyone but you.

    Dick McDonald: Who did you send them to?

    Ray Kroc: Everyone but you.

    Dick McDonald: You have no right. You are to stop this instant, is that clear?

    Ray Kroc: Nah...

    Dick McDonald: What the hell does that mean, nah? You will abide by the terms of your deal.

    Ray Kroc: I am through taking marching orders from you... You and your endless parade of NO's. Constantly cowering in the face of progress.

    Dick McDonald: If phony powdered milkshakes is your idea of progress you have a profound misunderstand of what McDonald's is about.

    Ray Kroc: I have a far greater understanding of McDonald's than you two yokles.

    Dick McDonald: What? You will do as we say.

    Ray Kroc: Nope.

    Dick McDonald: You have a contract!

    Ray Kroc: You know, contracts are like hearts... they're made to be broken.