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Biography - Ray Kroc: Fast Food McMillionaire

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I love learning about things that we take as a given. This work talks about how Ray Kroc invented fast food and made McDonald's the staple that it is. Surprisingly, he's not the inventor, but the guy who bought it. As a Chicagoan who takes pride in McDonald's headquarters being in the area, I was surprised to learn that yet another American institution had its roots in California.

Surprisingly, the documentary interviews pop culture writers, rather than businesspersons. It's easy for me to think of music, fashion, and film as constituting pop culture, but this work expands that area to food and restaurants. The interviewees are diverse, at least gender-wise. One interviewee wears turquoise and Native American jewelry; I wonder if she were trying to signify that she is a member of the Navajo Nation.

This work says the love of Ray's life was Joan. It basically applauds when they get married. However, they say nothing for the divorced spouses of the two and they skip over those people's pain. In the same way that I sympathized for the wives in "Brokeback Mountain" even as I cheered on the love between the men, my heart goes out to those two. I feel the same way about the Spanish wife that Antonio Banderas left for Melanie Griffith. I'm not sure why this work skirted over a move that could be read as heartless and inconsiderate. I hope Ray Kroc hooked the two dumped people up financially.

The documentary stressed that Kroc liked to look like a million bucks as a salesman. I then don't understand why he didn't get braces to correct his diastema that is as big as Condie Rice's or Governor Ahnuld's.

The Biography series covers several millionaires and billionaires. You might as well see this one if you are interested in guys with big bucks and how they became successful.