The family of Dick and Mac McDonald have told how the brothers who started the burger chain were bilked by its ‘founder’ out of a deal which should have made them mega-rich then written out of history.
They have just overhauled the company to try to save its future, but McDonald’s has a past that is far from savory either.
Daily Mail Online can reveal that the restaurant chain was forged on a poisonous row between the two founders and an entrepreneur who was so angry he called them ‘every kind of son of a b**** I could think of’.
Ray Kroc tore into Richard and Maurice McDonald when they demanded $2.7 million for their company in 1961.
He said that he ‘hated their guts’ and was ‘so mad I wanted to throw a vase through a window’ because he felt they had tried to make him fail – and were now ripping him off.
Kroc paid the money and enacted revenge by building a McDonald’s right next to their last remaining restaurant and driving them out of business.
Source: Secret history of how McDonalds brothers lost millions
