She said there are some discrepancies between the flick and what actually happened. Below is an edited transcript. They were buying new Cadillacs every year. They were almost like artists as opposed to businessmen who wanted to become publicly held and expand and expand again. Napoli: Yeah. And that was the thing, David, that was missing at that moment in time in the post-World War II landscape when everybody was falling in love with the car.
The suburbs were developing. This way they were able to have a nice, clean, efficient system that appealed to the families who were to be their biggest customers. There was no option. And what happened was as we became more mobile as a culture, we wanted that consistency. So yes, the brothers were on the vogue as far as preparation, but they were very typical of the times of wanting to be a locally sourced kind of game in town. Brancaccio: Having researched your own book and knowing what you do, as you sat there watching this feature film, did they get it right?
Did they calibrate the emotional intensity of that in an accurate way? Napoli: Well, the emotional intensity was accurate. The specifics were not accurate. And Ray needed the brothers to go away. He needed to rewrite the agreement so that he could own the whole company, so that they could be positioned to go public. Ray Kroc wants out. Using thick chunks of red chalk to plot the action, they choreographed an assembly line of food preparation and delivery, where workers could most efficiently grill the meats 40 patties in seconds , fry the fries servings an hour , and dispatch an entire meal to a hungry customer in just 20 seconds.
Nonplussed, the next day the stoic brothers plotted it out all over again. This hamburger dance allowed Dick and Mac to address the costly issue of personnel. The alluring carhops were swiftly marched out of the picture: Customers would have to get out of their cars and—gasp—walk to the window to order. The new staff was to be all male, outfitted in tidy, conservative paper hats and white uniforms which imbued them with an air of surgical cleanliness and precision.
Women employees, the brothers believed, presented an unnecessary distraction. Factoring in the lower labor costs, the brothers could now charge crucial pennies less than the competition.
Fifteen cents for a burger, ten cents for a bag of fries, and twenty cents for a creamy, triple-thick milk shake. Dick and Mac were counting on the math of their reduced operational costs, plus a high volume of sales, to add up to a handsome profit.
Customers roundly despised it. Some drove into the lot, only to peel off when no carhop appeared. Others lamented the loss of the old, longer menu and the inability to customize. All to no avail. The facelift was a disaster. Four months in, a miraculous turnaround occurred, for no particular reason. Cabbies came, then construction workers, then kids, and, soon, lines of hungry customers began to crowd the counter, and the presence of those customers attracted others.
Sales were so brisk the brothers commissioned a painting of a rising thermometer in the front window, a neat visual to boast the sales. When the number reached a million, Dick said, the painter would add an explosion to the top.
Dick had yet to marry. Hamburger seekers, it seemed, were indeed willing to trade choice for speed and price. Mac had become a wizard of the spud, applying principles of chemistry and perfecting a recipe through painstaking trial and error. The magic step involved drying Idaho russets in the desert air to break down the sugar content, a crucial if time-consuming step. Patience was as virtuous as precision: Improperly blanching, or in any way trying to hasten the process, was sure to yield greasy, limp potatoes, the sort fried up by the competition.
Aside from the long lines, the brothers had another indication that they had a hit on their hands. In recent years McDonald's has been one of many fast food restaurants targeted by the labor movement for its business and hiring practices. The Service Employees International Union has led multiple strikes against fast food locations around the country, frequently including McDonald's restaurants.
While McDonald's has not taken an aggressive stand on the issue, it has slowly begun rolling out automated ordering kiosks at some of its restaurants. Then, in , it acquired the artificial intelligence company Apprente. This acquisition is generally seen as a signal that McDonald's intends to further emphasize a low-employee, high-technology and self-service business model to cut down on costs. Considering that the McDonald brothers opened their hamburger restaurant by firing all 20 of their waitresses in favor of self-service, a move which allowed them to offer hamburgers for only 15 cents apiece, this would represent nothing new.
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I agree to TheMaven's Terms and Policy. And it all started with a hot dog stand. In doing so, Kroc made himself the most successful traveling salesman to ever pack a suitcase. Timeline of McDonald's Arguably one of the most impressive elements of McDonald's corporate history is how little modern history it has.
After a year or two, they came up with an innovative idea. They discarded the idea of waiters taking orders and serving food. Instead, orders were taken and delivered at the counter and there was no inner dining area. This not only saved a lot of space but saved money as well. This new innovation was a huge success and they started franchising. One of the franchises, Ray Kroc, believed in expanding the business and as a result, brought the entire chain from the McDonalds brother and turned into what it is now.
Later, due to the aggressive business measures of Kroc, the McDonalds brothers had to quit the fast-food industry.
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