The Founder Movie Summary

Summary of the Film
The Founder is a drama based on the true story of how Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton) who was a mediocre salesman from Illinois, USA. Ray Kroc basically stole MacDonald’s Hamburgers from two brothers, Mac Macdonald (John Carroll Lynch) and Dick MacDonald (Nick Offerman), who were the original founders of the brand, which was inevitably turned into a multi-million-dollar business.
For many years Ray Kroc had been a struggling, travelling salesman, selling milkshake machines, but his life changed when he met the Mac Donald brothers who at the time were running a very successful, innovative fast food hamburger restaurant.
The film is set in the 1950’s and takes place in various parts of America, but it is primarily based in San

They were innovative in the way that they set up their kitchen by creating the ’speedy system’, as well as by custom building their kitchen, to even having invented certain appliances and equipment in their kitchen, such as the devices that squirt the precise amount of sauce on the burger buns, to make the delivery process run faster, and more efficiently. Their staff however, were not expected to be creative, innovative and or inventive, they just had to follow the MacDonald policy strictly and without questions, that had been laid out for them. Bureaucratic management and leadership was also obvious when they were inspecting their kitchen and checking up on their employees. For instance, when Dick MacDonald inspects and times how long the fried chips are being cooked for at (14m27s), and then discusses the time spent to cook the chips with Mac MacDonald at (15m29s) and where the MacDonald brothers discuss how they would run and manage their potential franchise, where Mac suggests that every change will have to go through them, and be approved by them as can be seen at (36m33s). Later in the film they phone Ray, whenever they notice he is trying to make a change, and we see him phoning them to ask permission to change something, e.g. the basement in the Illinois branch at (41m41s) and when he tries to introduce powered milkshakes to reduce costs at