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A Game of Chicken

The Food That Built America by

Apr 27, 202222:44Society & Culture

In the 1970's, Ray Kroc of McDonald’s is far ahead of the competition. But when a burger chain called Burger King poaches his third-highest ranking executive, Don Smith, it's war. Smith re-engineers the emerging rival, a...

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