McDonald's, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where McDonald's comes up
Toast: Aman Narang. How a Long Wait for the Dinner Check Launched a $2 Billion Business.
- ▶ 45:35 Aman Narang The analogy I like to use is, you think about as a McDonald's franchisee, for example, there's a lot they do to set them up for success.
NVIDIA: Jensen Huang. From near collapse to becoming the world’s biggest company
- ▶ 7:10 Jensen Huang This incredible restaurant, and lights everywhere, it's like from outer space, and all the food was in boxes, and it was McDonald's. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Steve Ells of Chipotle
- ▶ 32:28 Steve Ells McDonald's had a dollar menu.
Wingstop: Antonio Swad. A Brilliant Idea — And a Nail-Biting Exit
Gymboree: Joan Barnes. How Building a Beloved Brand Nearly Destroyed Its Founder
- ▶ 25:08 Joan Barnes He was, you know, considerably older than me, 20, 25 years older, and Bud had worked for McDonald's in Chicago.
- ▶ 27:22 Guy Raz It wasn't like, um, hey, you want to own a Taco Bell or a McDonald's?
Advice Line with Tariq Farid of Edible Arrangements
Advice Line with Tony Xu of Doordash
- ▶ 40:08 Yori Gabay But funny enough, it used to be a McDonald's building.
Carlton Calvin: Razor. The wild rise, collapse, and reinvention of a mobile toy empire.
- ▶ 26:42 Guy Raz You know, it was just a magical store wandering through those aisles and looking at all the toys, and it was like one of the great, that and a Happy Meal at McDonald's, like, were too, and I didn't get them very often.
- ▶ 26:42 Guy Raz You know, it was just a magical store wandering through those aisles and looking at all the toys, and it was like one of the great, that and a Happy Meal at McDonald's, like, were too, and I didn't get them very often.
Advice Line with Richard Branson of Virgin
- ▶ 32:34 Andrew Perez You know, just a McDonald's smoothie.
Advice Line with Jonathan Neman of Sweetgreen
- ▶ 15:46 Jonathan Neman The vision was we want to be the next version of McDonald's.
Misfits Market: Abhi Ramesh
- ▶ 43:59 Abhi Ramesh Um, if you've seen the McDonald's, uh, you know, documentary, like when they realized they were a real estate business, 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Chris Ruder of Spikeball
Advice Line with Brian Scudamore of 1-800-GOT-JUNK?
- ▶ 5:49 Brian Scudamore You've got the McDonald's drive-through story, and that's where the ads are going to start.
SmartSweets: Tara Bosch
- ▶ 4:29 Tara Bosch Got a job at McDonald's.
- ▶ 7:20 Tara Bosch Yes, so my boss hired me because she saw I had McDonald's on my resume, and she became really, aside from my grandmother, the first figure in my life that helped me to see that food is not something that you have to have a tumultuous…
- ▶ 19:27 Tara Bosch I had probably at that point around 8000 dollars, um, from just saving since I was starting at McDonald's back when I was, um, in my early teen years.
Dave’s Hot Chicken: Arman Oganesyan
- ▶ 48:26 Arman Oganesyan Uh, as we were getting like kind of closer to opening, we watched the movie, the founder, the one about McDonald's.
- ▶ 1:01:34 Guy Raz You know, McDonald's probably does 2.2.
Whole30: Melissa Urban
- ▶ 5:31 Melissa Urban You know, by the time I was 16 and had a part-time job and was able to drive, my sister and I would call it going to the Church of the Golden Arches because we would tell my mom we were going to church, and we would go sit in McDonald's… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:57 Melissa Urban Like, I love a good McDonald's hot fudge sundae. 3 times in the scene
Weee!: Larry Liu
Sharing the 2023 HIBT Lab Highlight Reel
- ▶ 11:26 Pinky Cole So, I hired two employees, and we were making burgers and fries, and I came up with the recipe for the sauce, it's like a, similar to like a, what a McDonald's sauce would be, but not.
- ▶ 17:51 Guy Raz You're like, you're like McDonald's in Moscow in 1989.
KiwiCo: Sandra Oh Lin
- ▶ 13:18 Sandra Oh Lin So we would, okay, this dates me, but way back when my, you know, McDonald's used to have styrofoam containers.
When a robot cooks your lunch with Steve Ells of Chipotle and Kernel
Freshpet: Scott Morris
- ▶ 14:08 Scott Morris Along the way, um, I started kind of awakening, you know, on my own, and started thinking about, like, what was great food, and I remember somewhere along the way, someone said to me, you're selling McDonald's for cats, and, um, I didn't,…
Mary's Gone Crackers: Mary Waldner
Dutch Bros. Coffee: Travis Boersma
Spikeball: Chris Ruder
- ▶ 26:44 Chris Ruder Yeah, I remember talking to Tim Kennedy, and at the time, he worked at Ronald McDonald House, uh, which is, you know, the non-profit arm of McDonald's. 2 times in the scene
Harry’s Razors: Andy Katz-Mayfield and Jeff Raider
- ▶ 6:15 Andy Katz-Mayfield McDonald's, uh, run, uh, to the 2 times in the scene
HIBT Lab! Slutty Vegan: Pinky Cole
- ▶ 1:20 Guy Raz And her plan, quite simply, is to become the McDonald's of vegan food.
- ▶ 5:00 Pinky Cole So one time she worked at McDonald's, then she worked at the bank and then she worked at another bank.
- ▶ 25:59 Pinky Cole So, I hired two employees, and we were making burgers and fries, and I came up with the recipe for the sauce, it's like a, similar to like a, what a McDonald's sauce would be, but not.
- ▶ 32:24 Guy Raz You're like, you're like McDonald's in Moscow in 1989.
Zumiez: Tom Campion
- ▶ 7:26 Tom Campion Lunch, or you go jump in your car, you go to the McDonald's drive-in, or whatever, or go into the, the Denny store.
HIBT Lab! Osmo Salt: Nick DiGiovanni
- ▶ 11:30 Nick DiGiovanni Yeah, I did, I did, and, and, you know, that was the one side of my plan, is maybe two years from now, I'll go to Harvard Business School, and then on the other side of it, I was preparing to accept a job at McDonald's, 3 times in the scene
Culver's: Craig Culver
- ▶ 0:02 Craig Culver There was an event, a McDonald's event in Madison, and, uh, a friend of mine, a McDonald's guy, came up to me and said, Culver, you're as far as you're gonna go. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:02 Guy Raz You're down in Madison, Wisconsin, and I guess your sister, your older sister, Georgia, says, hey, um, I want you to meet my friend, Tom, who works at McDonald's, because he might have a job for you. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:35 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, how somebody from McDonald's belittles the business, and how that just motivates Craig to grow faster.
- ▶ 53:43 Craig Culver It was a McDonald's event in Madison, a fundraising event for the Ronald McDonald House, and I went, and as I was exiting that evening, a friend of mine, a McDonald's guy, came up to me and said, Culver, you know, you're as far as you're… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:36 Guy Raz I mean, of course, there are McDonald's around, Burger King is around, but tastes do change, and, uh, chains, even big chains can go out of business.
Raising Cane's: Todd Graves
- ▶ 27:09 Todd Graves And do just that, and look where McDonald's is going.
- ▶ 50:39 Guy Raz From what I read, she was actually a McDonald's franchisee. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:18 Todd Graves You know, I can be like McDonald's, you know, and as luck would have it, again, there was a man, Dr.
- ▶ 1:17:49 Guy Raz And by comparison, McDonald's is like two and a half to three million dollars per location.
Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy
- ▶ 44:58 Telfar Clemens Before I had McDonald's, I had White Castle because it was cheaper.
Dang Foods: Vincent and Andrew Kitirattragarn
- ▶ 6:15 Vincent Kitirattragarn McDonald's, because they delivered at the time, or we could learn to cook, and so I think some of my early memories about, you know, cooking came for cooking for my brothers, cooking for Andrew, cooking for our other brother. 3 times in the scene
Logic: Logic & Chris Zarou (2018)
- ▶ 1:05:46 Logic (Sir Robert Bryson Hall II) How you cook the fries at McDonald's, who sweeps the floors, who flips the burgers, the exact time to flip the burgers, this, this, that, that, even if I'm sitting all the way on the 57th floor in the CEO chair, I need to know.
Meet The HIBT Fellows: Pierre Paul & Toby Egbuna
- ▶ 4:54 Pierre Paul And so, with that realization, I just couldn't not do anything about it, so as cliche as it sounds, I remember finally falling asleep, and I had a dream about this specific sign language translator, and it's funny, I had a dream that I was…
Siete Family Foods: Miguel and Veronica Garza
- ▶ 7:04 Miguel Garza I think I went through a phase where I was the biggest brat, and I just wanted, like, McDonald's every night. 2 times in the scene
Atlassian: Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar
- ▶ 4:59 Scott Farquhar Then she worked at Target or Tajay, as we like to call it in Australia, and McDonald's at different, at different stages.
How I Built Resilience: Loren and Lisa Poncia of Stemple Creek Ranch
Jazzercise: Judi Sheppard Missett
- ▶ 52:38 Judi Sheppard Missett Back then, it was Burger King or McDonald's.
Famous Dave's: Dave Anderson
Brooklinen: Vicki and Rich Fulop
- ▶ 13:17 Rich Fulop And I wanted to really start like the next, you know, McDonald's based on those, those vertical hot dogs also did not go very far with that.
Sweetgreen: Nicolas Jammet and Jonathan Neman
- ▶ 33:54 Jonathan Neman There is no healthy place to eat, and the fast food brand of our generation was, or the generation before us, was McDonald's.
- ▶ 1:01:34 Guy Raz Starbucks, I think, is the biggest food chain in the world after McDonald's, uh, maybe Subway, I don't know. 2 times in the scene
FUBU: Daymond John (2018)
- ▶ 6:21 Daymond John I've always been somewhat analytical, and, um, I remember doing the math one day about, uh, you know, if I were to work in McDonald's, and if I were to sell drugs over the course of five years, where, when I make more money, and it looked… 3 times in the scene
Compaq Computers: Rod Canion (2019)
- ▶ 26:53 Rod Canion No, I, um, I see pictures now of me, uh, carrying, uh, fast food, you know, a McDonald's bag or a Wendy's bag.
Logic: Logic & Chris Zarou
- ▶ 1:04:33 Logic (Sir Robert Bryson Hall II) How you cook the fries at McDonald's, who sweeps the floors, who flips the burgers, the exact time to flip the burgers, this, this, that, that, even if I'm sitting all the way on the 57th floor in the CEO chair, I need to know.
Five Guys: Jerry Murrell (2019)
- ▶ 12:25 Jerry Murrell For a hamburger bun as McDonald's was then. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:22 Guy Raz So, so wait, I mean, your burgers were still a lot more expensive than, than like a McDonald's burger.
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FUBU: Daymond John
- ▶ 5:16 Daymond John I've always been somewhat analytical, and, um, I remember doing the math one day about, uh, you know, if I were to work in McDonald's, and if I were to sell drugs over the course of five years, where, would I make more money, and it looked… 3 times in the scene
Zumba: Beto Perez & Alberto Perlman (January, 2017)
- ▶ 32:38 Alberto Perlman We have more locations teaching Zumba than there are McDonald's in the world.
Chipotle: Steve Ells
- ▶ 28:47 Steve Ells I did, so I, I, I started to go to institutions, and then one of my initial investors, Al Baldocki, suggested that I send a plan to McDonald's, and, and he had met someone in McDonald's, 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:15 Guy Raz Was McDonald's ever saying to you, hey, look, you know, it doesn't make sense that you're buying, you know, these expensive 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:21 Guy Raz I mean, after that McDonald's investment, it was like, it was like a rocket, you know, I mean, and everybody and their, and their brother and sisters wanted to create the next Chipotle.
- ▶ 44:03 Steve Ells That, uh, McDonald's allowed me to basically run the company and tap into their resources.
Edible Arrangements: Tariq Farid
- ▶ 6:07 Guy Raz So you're, so you spent, you know, your middle school and high school, you know, you were spending that working, like working at McDonald's or Burger King or doing a paper route or the flower shop, which obviously had a big impression on…
- ▶ 40:41 Guy Raz He was working at Burger King McDonald's on the weekends with five kids.
Five Guys: Jerry Murrell
- ▶ 11:50 Jerry Murrell For a hamburger bun as McDonald's was then. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:26 Guy Raz So, so wait, I mean, your burgers were still a lot more expensive than, than like a McDonald's burger.
Compaq Computers: Rod Canion
- ▶ 26:31 Rod Canion No, I, um, I see pictures now of me, uh, carrying, uh, fast food, you know, a McDonald's bag or a Wendy's bag.
1-800-GOT-JUNK?: Brian Scudamore
- ▶ 4:35 Brian Scudamore And it turns out they were probably smart, but what it taught me is I had to get out there, fund my own education, and what I did was I was in a McDonald's drive-thru in Vancouver. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:29 Brian Scudamore Big, hairy, audacious goals down on paper that we would be like the McDonald's of junk, that we would, you know, just what Ray Kroc did where he got all these owners on board, we would do the same thing with the junk removal business.
- ▶ 33:06 Guy Raz Like, in that McDonald's drive-through, and you, you're just there, and you're like, dude, I know what's gonna happen to you over the course of your life.
Live Episode! Beyond Meat: Ethan Brown
- ▶ 6:58 Ethan Brown I was thinking about this, and I wanted to create a, a plant-based McDonald's. 3 times in the scene
Zumba: Beto Perez & Alberto Perlman
- ▶ 32:08 Alberto Perlman We have more locations teaching Zumba than there are McDonald's in the world.