If you were to ask the average McDonald's customer who founded the fast food empire, there's a chance they'd guess it was somebody named "McDonald." It's also a very likely possibility that they'd answer "Ray Kroc." While Kroc may have taken McDonald's to such a grand scale that its humble beginnings were nearly forgotten, it was brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald who truly were the fast food restaurant's founders — even though they're not the ones with their likenesses etched into plaques on the restaurant's walls.
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While the lives of the McDonald brothers were filled with success that would eventually afford them luxuries like custom Cadillacs, their lives were also fraught with frustration and defeat. The brothers lost out on a fortune and had their legacy all but erased for decades because of going into business with Ray Kroc. "I remember him saying once, when I was a teenager, 'That guy really got me,'" recalled Richard McDonald's grandson Jason French.
This is the tragic story of the McDonald brothers and their fast food phenomenon.
