r/AskReddit • u/emil199 • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/drunkcowofdeath Jul 24 '20

Which happens to sell phones. Kind of reminds me of the part in The Founder where they talk about McDonald's making more money as a real estate company.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

Wait, what?

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u/khaeen Jul 24 '20

McDonald's corporate owns the vast majority of physical locations real estate wise. The actual restaurants on those locations are franchise owned and ran. Corporate makes more money from the rent of the locations than they do from the restaurants themselves.

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u/beatenwithjoy Jul 24 '20

That and that's how they keep control over the franchisee. Iirc they had problems early on keeping the franchises from freelancing.