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Mcdonald's Reaction To The Movie

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To be successful in any industry, you need ambition and drive. When there is money and power involved, there will always be someone who will take any measure to take credit for someone else 's work. The film directed by John Lee Hancock, and produced by Jeremy Renner, Don Handfield, Aaron Ryder, and Karen Lunder; takes audiences to see how through one man 's underlying ambition, he was able to franchise, what will soon be known as the biggest restaurant business in the world. The Founder, is a film that shows the true meaning of business. Isn 't funny how only after someone else thinks of an idea, we are able to look at that same idea as if we thought of it ourselves? Two years ago, the Weinstein Company released a true story film that tells …show more content…

So, having the ability to learn through this movie, how McDonald 's got to where it is today, is very interesting. However, I don 't agree with the way it came to be, I find it hard to believe that one man was smart enough to gain control over a company that wasn 't even his idea. After watching the film, I looked at McDonald 's website and looked at what they had published as their history. Sadly, the only name that I kept on seeing was Ray Kroc 's and I find that hard to believe. This is because, the McDonald brothers worked so hard to create this restaurant that was efficient and exactly what they wanted and then by being nice and letting a man into their restaurant, they had to lose ownership to that man because he played his cards right. I know, that this is the way business goes but I feel like Ray Kroc could have involved the brothers more with the company. Instead of completely taking ownership over the company, Kroc could have worked something out with the brothers because if it wasn 't for them, Kroc would have nothing to franchise. This wouldn 't be something I would discuss with the producers of the film, this is something I would discuss with Ray Kroc if I had the chance. However, if it wasn 't for Kroc 's ruthless maybe McDonald 's would have never blown up in the way that it did. Maybe the brothers would have just kept one location in San Bernardino,

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