The Founder (2016)

John Carroll Lynch: Mac McDonald

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• Mac McDonald : Dick. We will never beat him. We will never be rid of him.

• Ray Kroc : While you two boys were content to sit back and become a couple of also-rans... I wanna take the future. I wanna win. And you don't get there by being some "aw shucks" guy sap. There's no place in business for people like that. Business is war. It's dog eat dog, rat eat rat. If my competitor were drowning, I'd walk over and put a hose right in his mouth. Can you say the same?

  Mac McDonald : [pause]  I can't. Nor would I want to.

  Ray Kroc : Hence, your single location.

  Mac McDonald : We want you out of this company, Ray.

  Ray Kroc : Mac, how do you propose we do that?

  Mac McDonald : We will sue you, whatever it takes.

  Ray Kroc : And you'd probably win. But you can't afford to sue me. I'd bury you in court costs alone. Mac, I'm the president and C.E.O. of a major corporation with land holdings in 17 states... You run a burger stand in the desert. I'm national. You're fucking local.

  [Mac collapses] 

• Dick McDonald : A hothead like that, you don't know what he's capable of.

  Mac McDonald : It's all bluster, Dick. His bark is worse than his bite.

  Dick McDonald : That's what Neville Chamberlain said.

• Mac McDonald : This is not your company, Ray!

• Ray Kroc : Let me explain something to you, Dick... You boys have full say over what goes on inside the restaurants. But outside, above, below... your authority stops at the door. And at the floor. All right?

  Mac McDonald : What is he saying?

  Dick McDonald : He's buying the land.

  Mac McDonald : Our land?

• Mac McDonald : [Giving Kroc his first tour of McDonald's]  Speed. That's the name of the game. The first stop for every McDonald's hamburger is the grill. Manned by two cooks, whose sole job it is to cook those all-beef beauties to perfection. Meanwhile, as the patty cooks, our dressers get the buns ready. Watch out. Burger crossing!

  McDonald's Employees : Burger crossing!

  Mac McDonald : Every McDonald's burger has two pickles, a pinch of onions, and a precise shot of ketchup and mustard.

  Ray Kroc : [Points to the ketchup and mustard despensers]  Now, where did you get those?

  Mac McDonald : We made them.

  Ray Kroc : Made them?

  Mac McDonald : Yes, custom-built. The whole kitchen is. Next, this is the finishing station where we put the whole thing together. And...

  [Leads Ray to the end of the line, holding up a wrapped hamburger] 

  Mac McDonald : Voila! A fresh, delicious burger from grill to counter in 30 seconds.