While Kroc is widely credited as the founder of McDonald's, the McDonald brothers actually came up with the basic formula for fast food as we know it. "Like most people, I wrongly thought that Ray Kroc founded McDonald's," Seigel said. But the first McDonald's restaurant changed all that. Eventually, Kroc buys them both out for $US 2.7 million and appoints himself the founder of the new McDonald's Corporation. "We screened the movie for their family and I was told they really, really liked it which means a lot to me," Siegel said.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 23, 2016 04:41 UTC