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The Founder is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by John Lee Hancock and written by Robert Siegel.Starring Michael Keaton as businessman Ray Kroc, the film depicts the story of his creation of the McDonald's fast-food restaurant chain, which eventually involved forcing out the company's original founders to take control with conniving ruthlessness.
He seized control of McDonald's from the McDonald Brothers in 1961, after several years as their franchising agent, and served as its CEO from 1967 to 1973. Kroc was born in Oak Park, Illinois , and worked a variety of jobs, including as a paper cup salesman and a musician, before eventually becoming a milkshake mixer salesman.
Lionel Alexander Rosenblatt (born December 10, 1943) is a former American diplomat, Refugee Coordinator at the United States Embassy in Thailand, and President of Refugees International, an advocacy organization for refugees.
AP. By the late 1960s, McDonald's had ditched the two-arch design, with the golden arches appearing instead on signs. This is the era in which Ray Kroc had taken over the business and was swiftly ...
McDonald's clearly isn't a growth stock in the same vein as, say Nvidia or Amazon. The fast-food industry is already pretty well saturated, so most future growth will stem from mere population ...
McDonald's cited a ruling last year by the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court that barred the consideration of race as a factor in college admissions. That decision came in lawsuits ...
McDonald's realized that the Des Plaines restaurant had historical significance, so it built a replica. With gold arches placed over a glass and metal, red-and-white tiled exterior, the building largely followed the McDonald brothers' original blueprints, which they had introduced when they began franchising in 1953.
McDonald’s HACER National Scholarship Program, which was founded in 1985, awards college scholarships to students with at least one Latino parent. The program has awarded more than $33 million ...