The Founder
August 25th, 2017 at 11:09:49 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
Sanders was another small thinking hick, like the McDonald bros. Sanders would take his Cadillac and visit his stores and if anything was below his standards for excellence, he would close the store down for weeks sometimes until the manager got it right. You can't run a business that way. When he sold in 1964, he was old and fat and happy as a lark to be a millionaire. It's when the business became wildly successful now that he wasn't running it anymore, that's when he became resentful. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
August 25th, 2017 at 11:18:04 AM permalink | |
kenarman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 14 Posts: 4517 | Dave Thomas (who later started Wendys) is credited with keeping Col Saunders from going broke when he first started turning his business into a chain. It was Thomas who convinced him to quit trying to be a restaurant and cut back to his signature chicken product. "but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin |
August 25th, 2017 at 11:22:34 AM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18212 |
Kroc was a smart but tough businessman. As a salesman he would try to increase his sales by driving the sales of his customers. He got them to sell more milkshakes, so he sold more cups. At MCD he got his money based on their sales. He refused kickbacks from suppliers. This is one reason for the success of MCD. HoJos for one raped their franchisees on supplies to the point the franchiees bought out-of-system in any way they could get away from. The President is a fink. |
August 25th, 2017 at 11:51:23 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 | I remember the first time I had KFC. it was just after I started driving in 1965. I went to the only KFC in town and got a 21 piece bucket for $3.99. I sat in my car and ate 14-15 pieces, they were so good. On the way home I got violently sick and had to stop and upchuck it all on the side of the road. I didn't have KFC again for at least 30 years, just the smell of it made me gag. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
August 25th, 2017 at 11:58:59 AM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18212 |
15 pieces? No wonder you got sick. Price seems high, that would be like spending $30 today. The President is a fink. |
August 25th, 2017 at 12:11:51 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
Didn't seem high at all 52 years ago. A 21 piece bucket with mashed and gravy and rolls was a bargain. Right now the 12 piece bucket with sides is $29.99. At today's prices, a 21 piece bucket would cost $32.50 for chicken only. With the sides over $40. $4 was a good price even in 1965. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
August 25th, 2017 at 3:41:41 PM permalink | |
reno Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 58 Posts: 1384 |
I'm sure the ice cream itself wasn't cheap, but the movie emphasized the high co$t involved with paying for all that electricity used to keep the ice cream frozen. The irony is that Kroc got rid of the freezers when he switched to fake milk shakes and then brought all those freezers back when they switched to frozen french fries and beef patties.
(And they've come back full circle, because starting in 2018, they'll start using fresh beef again.) Incidentally, In 'N Out Burger is the only fast food chain that uses whole potatoes in the restaurant. Everyone else uses frozen french fries. Speaking of McDonalds french fries, anyone in the mood for some tertiary butylhydroquinone or dimethylpolysiloxane? |
August 25th, 2017 at 3:57:45 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18212 |
They had little choice but to go to frozen on both. As to fries, it was getting impossible to get steady supply of the right spuds due to seasonality and no one farmer could come close to supplying the chain. Fred Turner was at first against frozen fries and beef but came around. The guy who figured out how to make frozen fries close to as good tasting as fresh (at the time) was a candidate to buy 51% of the Stardust Hotel and Casino, but Glick decided to finance with the mafia instead so he could have controlling interest. Joke on Glick. As to beef, they had over 100 beef suppliers at one point and keeping quality control was impossible, it was a matter of time before someone got killed by bad beef. That was one big reason for the shift. The other was to consolidate deliveries. In the early 1960s, a McDonalds store had a huge amount of suppliers and deliveries. Beef, potatoes, Coca-Cola, napkins, perhaps a dozen deliveries. When they shifted to frozen fries and beef plus insta-shakes, they could put more and more on pallets, 1-2 deliveries a week. The President is a fink. |
August 25th, 2017 at 5:43:02 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 | Fast food chains have fed millions for 60 years. They have also fattened up the world to an alarming degree. If all the new studies on sugar and starch are true, they are responsible for most major diseases. Big sugar and big wheat have been wrongly blaming fat intake on illnesses, when they knew all along it was sugar and grains making people sick. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
August 25th, 2017 at 6:43:29 PM permalink | |
AZDuffman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 135 Posts: 18212 |
People fattened themselves up. The President is a fink. |