Love it or hate it, you probably think of McDonald's as an American success story. But take a peek behind the curtain, and you'll see the truth is much darker.

Ray Kroc, founder and chairman of McDonald's Corporation, stands outside one of his franchises, holding a hamburger and a drink.Bettman/Getty Images The McDonald brothers opened their small restaurant ...

A 554-acre ranch in California’s Santa Ynez Valley once owned by McDonald’s Corp. founder Ray Kroc is coming on the market for $29 million. Mr. Kroc and his then-wife Jane Kroc bought the bulk of the ...

As the businessman who built a network of McDonald's franchises while nastily — and gleefully — disenfranchising his business partners, Keaton... When John Travolta's Vincent Vega told the tale of his ...

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) - In John Lee Hancock's bio-drama "The Founder," Northwest suburban businessman Ray Kroc, played by Michael Keaton, beholds an empty tract of land on Lee Street in Des ...

(Original Caption) Ray Kroc, owner of the San Diego Padres and founder of the MacDonald’s hamburger chain, is greeted by the San Diego chicken in honor of Kroc’s 80th birthday at San Diego’s Jack ...

In a key scene from The Founder, a new drama about the making of McDonald’s, 52-year-old salesman Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton) tries to persuade the McDonald brothers, Dick (Nick Offerman) and Mac (John ...

As I remember the story, about 40 years ago America's most famous and successful restaurant operator, Ray Kroc, came to Duluth, himself, to acquire a location for a new McDonald's. This story has ...

Ownership of the empty lot where the 33-year-old replica of Ray Kroc's first McDonald's used to stand is in the process of being handed over to the city, Des Plaines Director of Community and Economic ...

(April 8 marks the 50th anniversary of the first major league game in Padres history. To commemorate the occasion, the Union-Tribune is producing a nine-part series on memorable debuts through the ...