The Founder (2016) on Netflix
Ray Kroc sells milkshake mixers across the country with little success. A large order leads him to Mac and Dick McDonald, whose fast burger stand he wants to franchise.
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Plot summary
Ray Kroc's sales route takes him to drive-in restaurants that serve food slowly and sometimes get his order wrong, and few of them buy his milkshake mixers. A San Bernardino, California restaurant orders eight of the machines, so he drives there and finds a walk-up stand run by Mac and Dick McDonald, where orders come out fast, the wrappers are disposable and families line up. The brothers show him their Speedee Service System and explain how they cut their menu down to burgers, fries and shakes. Ray presses them to franchise; their own earlier attempts failed, so they agree to a contract that keeps changes under their approval. Ray mortgages his home to open a McDonald's in Des Plaines, Illinois, and clashes with the brothers when he wants Coca-Cola's name on the menu boards.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Founder (2016)
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- After a month-long location search, the crew built a full working golden-arches McDonald's set, with period-accurate kitchen equipment brought up to code, in a church parking lot in Douglasville, Georgia in just seven working days, then reused it as every franchise location in the film by swapping details like the parking lot striping.
- In February 2017, production company FilmNation Entertainment sued distributor The Weinstein Company for $15 million, claiming its release of the film Gold just a week after The Founder broke an agreement that no Weinstein film would open within a week of it either way; the lawsuit was dropped with prejudice by both sides in November 2017.
