The Founder (2016) is a biographical drama film directed by John Lee Hancock and starring Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc, the man who turned McDonald’s into one of the biggest fast-food empires in the world. The film tells the story of how Kroc, a struggling milkshake machine salesman in the 1950s, discovers a small but revolutionary burger restaurant run by brothers Dick and Mac McDonald in California. Impressed by their fast, efficient system of preparing food, Kroc sees the potential to franchise