History of McDonald’s 1938-Today (Full Documentary)

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If McDonald's would go back to the 80s quality and everything they would be unstoppable. Today is so hit or miss i no longer bother with it.

Going to McDonald’s on weekends with my dad was such a highlight during the 80’s.

I have to give you big credit for presenting this in a factual way without the annoying stock footage and vid tricks used in 80% YT history vids. Also your plain and correct pronunciation of the narration is a pleasure. Nicely done!

This was absolutely fascinating, I was one of those late-night insomniacs looking for something to watch and ended up being hooked, ended up watching the whole thing. You did such a good job with your research and very calm manner in presenting the facts. I'm from South Africa, McDonald's opened its first restaurant in South Africa on the 12th of November 1995, at the time, my buddy and I looked into getting a franchise, was very exciting to be talking to the head office in America and learning about what it was all about, but in the end, we didn't go through with it. However, the chain is very popular nowadays, although it does get a lot of competition from a homegrown competitor, Steers.

I love the fact that he didn't use computerized voices to narrate this. His voice was clear and comfortable to listen to and he didn't stretch it out with useless verbal diarrhea.

Having been an executive chef for 42 years I never knew where my favorite quote came from” if you have time to lean you have time to clean “ a quote my earliest chefs and instructors emblazoned into my brain. It’s great knowing who came up with it!thanks Ray you helped make me a better executive chef and helped my career in ways you will never know! Over the years I made certain that my baseboards in my kitchen were as clean as the table tops in my dining rooms and I spent many hours doing that work myself to prove to my staff that nobody’s too good to not get on their knees to scrub baseboards!

1976, the year of the Olympic Games in Montreal, I worked on the opening of the 4,000th McDonald's, thank you very much.♥♥

Fred Turner is an example of “ask not what you are getting … but what you are becoming” He stood out from the very beginning and proved his competence… he actually cared and because of that was hand picked by Ray himself. Such a beautiful thing

13 mins so far, and I gotta say, great video already! It deserves a lot more views.

This was an extremely well made and well written documentary. They did their due diligence and really got the history of McDonald's. THIS IS a GREAT VIDEO! Again when time and quality effort goes into a video it shows, and this one definitely has it and then some! Excellent job sir! 👏 Thank you for your dedication, time, and effort in bringing this history to us. The historical significance of McDonald's is obviously one if the biggest stories of our generation, and you did a phenomenal job putting it all together. You got a subscriber! Thanks again!

I began watching and was hooked. Thank you so much for doing all the work on this. I'm in my late '60s now and McDonald's was one of my first jobs as a kid. It was the first time I was introduced to a lie detector test they gave all employees and I'll never forget the Triple Ripple ice cream cone. Being immature kids at the time, we took great pleasure and putting packs of mayonnaise underneath car tires when we were doing lot checks and having a grand old time watching them splat all over everybody. As I said, I was an immature kid but I did learn a lot about work ethics. So again, thank you very much for making this documentary.

I actually teared up a few times because I went there as a child and now I'm taking my grandchildren there. I hope it lives on.

Impeccable research and historically accurate. Thanks for all your work!

That was one hell of a job my friend, I usually can't sit and watch something for more than 20 minutes, I couldn't walk away from this one. Watched it on my TV but had to jump on the phone real quick to leave a like and a comment for all of your hard work. Absolutely fantastic..

and yet the ice cream machine still doesn't work

I actually paused after the Filet-o-Fish to go get one. Finished the documentary with McDonalds. Interesting. Thank you for the value in the information you have provided.

Nicely done! I worked for McDonald's for 23 years, and loved every minute of it right up until the very end! It was and has been a huge part of my life and I still use many of the things I learned in the management program to this day to run my own business(s).

Very enjoyable video. Richard McDonald lived in Bedford NH. By the time I met him in the late 90’s he was very elderly, and I was a bag boy at Vista Foods. Richard McDonald LOVED telling everyone he founded McDonalds… often to the same Vista employees who had heard the story several times. What can I say, he was quite old then. I wish I still had his business card. It was imprinted in gold, with Golden Arches in the center, his name, and the word “Founder”.

I was cleaning out of hospital listening to your documentary very interesting made the time go by enjoy the whole documentary and listen to the rest of it on the car ride home