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.

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.

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

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!

and yet the ice cream machine still doesn't work

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

I still remember so well eating my first ever Big Mac in 1987 in a newly opened MacDonalds in Belgrade, Serbia, then capital of Yugoslavia, it felt immediatelly so tasty and the process of getting the food seemed immediatelly so natural.

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”.

Sorry but I usually bring my 5 year old grandson to MCDONALD'S every now and then for a happy meal.When I was little my parents bought me to MCDONALD'S for a happy meal . I look back at those times with my parents and brothers as happy times when we ate hamburgers fries 🍟 and drank thick strawberry and chocolate milkshakes with a straw. We had contest for a $5 00 prize for the first one to finish their milkshake 🥛I never won 😢 we are just so busy now that we only see each other during holidays. Back then our parents allowed us to share a table and we talked to each other's company ate Big Macs , Quarter pounders, fish fillet sandwich 🥪 french fries we had what we wanted most if the time . Fish fillet for Lent and apple pies all the time for dessert I loved the fried apple pies. I can't remember when they changed it to baked apple pie. That was a sad day. MCDONALD'S was a big part of my life and still is ! I will not lie I LOVE MCDONALD'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!

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

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

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.

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 mourn the loss of the Angus Mushroom & Swiss. That was an amazing product. It was an interesting time when different burger places experimented with Angus beef. I know they weren't exactly cheap but they were worth every penny.

I don’t go there today for various reasons, but I will never forget the impact of the Happy Meal on my childhood. There were the equivalent of viral trend collectors items offered often through the 80’s that made SURE my sister & I pestered my mom into regular visits. She still has the Smurf glassware. The whole concept- GENIUS! I miss the tallow-fried 🍟😭