McDonald's, every mention

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▶ 2:48:43 Shane Parrish You can't be chauffeured to work while you're telling your kid to go work at McDonald's.

▶ 7:59 Shane Parrish McDonald's, Burger King, A&W, Kentucky Fried Chicken, all of them had French fries on the menu.
▶ 27:52 Shane Parrish The biggest single door in that market was McDonald's. 6 times in the scene
▶ 29:56 Shane Parrish Had walked in as if McDonald's were another regional grocery chain, and they weren't, and they didn't forget it. 4 times in the scene
▶ 30:33 Shane Parrish Even the McDonald's win didn't crack the American retail market.

▶ 0:08 Shane Parrish Today, we're going to learn about Ray Kroc and the story of McDonald's. 3 times in the scene
▶ 15:27 Shane Parrish Operators wanted to know about this place in California run by two brothers named McDonald's, and they were running eight multi-mixers simultaneously, 40 milkshakes churning at once.
▶ 19:53 Shane Parrish In the autumn of 1948, the McDonald's brothers did the unthinkable. 2 times in the scene
▶ 22:22 Shane Parrish Visions of McDonald's restaurants dotted in Crosstown all over the country paraded through my brain. 5 times in the scene
▶ 27:55 Shane Parrish Customers who'd eaten at McDonald's in one location would recognize it in another location. 4 times in the scene
▶ 31:25 Shane Parrish Harry would become one of the most important figures in McDonald's history. 9 times in the scene
▶ 34:23 Shane Parrish By the late 19 fifties, McDonald's was growing fast. 6 times in the scene
▶ 38:06 Shane Parrish Neither did the company. 5 times in the scene
▶ 39:10 Shane Parrish In 1960, a former Marine Corps major named Lytton Cochran opened McDonald's store number 200 in Knoxville, Tennessee. 2 times in the scene
▶ 40:47 Shane Parrish Ray Kroc was obsessed with every detail inside a McDonald's. 10 times in the scene
▶ 45:25 Shane Parrish In 1965, McDonald's went public at 22 50 a share. 16 times in the scene

▶ 1:03:51 Shane Parrish Ray Kroc, you know, he bought a local hamburger chain that would turn into McDonald's as we know it today when he was 52.

▶ 2:14:21 Shane Parrish Uh, when you're getting a chauffeur to drive you to work, and you're telling your 15 or sixteen-year-old to go get a job at McDonald's, uh, he said that's gonna create a lot of resentment.

▶ 35:33 Shane Parrish I call that the McDonald's problem because, uh, you know, I, I used to work in tech as well, and people would do this all the time where it's like, I followed all the rules.

▶ 54:56 Shane Parrish So if you're living in a mansion, and you get picked up in a chauffeur, and you tell your fifteen-year-old to go get a job at McDonald's, it's gonna cause resentment.

▶ 14:37 Shane Parrish They talk like him, they go to McDonald's every morning and they eat their egg McMuffin and they, they say all the right things.

▶ 26:35 Shane Parrish It's kind of like the difference between being a chef and creating something start to finish, or being, working at McDonald's, where it's like, the fries go down for 90 seconds, and... 3 times in the scene

▶ 36:40 Shane Parrish Players who are striving for, like, almost like McDonald's, like consistency.

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