Our client agrees fully to your conditions of sale with one exception. Your one percent cut of future corporate earnings will have to be carried out on a handshake basis.
It's my investor group. Their financing is contingent on leaving it out of the contract. Because unfortunately that's a dealbreaker for them. Look, fellas. You'll get your full due royalties, alright? Come, my words on that. Let's make a deal.
I just have to ask you one thing. Something I've never understood.
Alright.
That day we met, when we gave you the tour.
What about it?
Steal it, just grab your ideas, run off and start my own business using all those ideas of yours? I would have failed.
How do you know?
Was I the only one who ever got the kitchen tour? You must have invited lots of people back there.
And?
How many of them succeeded?
Lots of people started restaurants.
As big as McDonald's? Of course not. No one ever has, and no one ever will. Because they all lack that one thing that makes McDonald's special.
Which is...
Even you don't know what it is!
Enlighten me.
It's not just the system, Dick. It's the name. The glorious name, McDonald's. It could be anything you want it to be. It's nevertheless wide open. It sounds like America. Let's compare it to Kroc. Would you eat at a place named Kroc's? Kroc says that blunt, slavic sound. But McDonald's, oh boy, that's a beauty. A guy named McDonald is never going to get pushed around in life.
That's clearly not the case.
So you don't have a check for $1.35 million in your pocket? Bye, Dick.
So if you can't beat them, buy them?
I remember the first time I saw that name stretched across, and you stood out there. It was love at first sight. I knew that right then and there I just had to have it. And now I do.
You don't have it.