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Here are just a couple of the most sickening fast food stories we've encountered. It really makes you wonder what other fast food restaurants are getting up to!

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The McDonald Brothers were put out of business…by a McDonalds
The story of McDonalds founder Ray Kroc is basically that of a petulant bully who wins. According to a Daily Mail interview with the McDonald family, after Kroc convinced the McDonald brothers to let him franchise their restaurant, he immediately began plotting their demise. He hated how he couldn't change things at his McDonalds without a thumbs-up from the brothers (who were, technically, his bosses). So he offered to buy the company outright. When the brothers asked for $2.7 million plus 0.5 percent of future company royalties, Kroc apparently snapped, throwing a baby tantrum in his office and cursing the McDonald family for being so greedy as to ask for money. How dare they?

Kroc eventually paid, but then immediately cut the brothers out of their royalty deal, which would've earned them hundreds of millions of dollars. In addition, Kroc hated that the brothers still ran their old restaurant under a new name (Big M). So, he opened up another McDonalds nearby. Within a few years, Big M was no more. Ray Kroc had achieved his dream of owning a hugely successful company, plus another dream of guaranteeing his old partners would never work again. Fitting punishment for the crime of annoying him once.

Jimmy John's makes regular employees sign non-compete contracts
If you leave a fast food job and aren't, say, the CEO, you can easily get another low-paying job elsewhere. Unless, sadly, you work at Jimmy John's, the popular sandwich shop best known for never having one of its mascots wind up in prison. As revealed by the Huffington Post, when JJ's hires you to slap turkey on rye for eight bucks an hour, they force you to sign a non-compete contract that bars you from working for any competitors for two years after you leave. By competitors, they mean any company that makes more than ten percent of their money off of sandwiches, and is less than three miles away from any Jimmy John's, anywhere. Since sandwiches aren't exactly an exotic dish enjoyed only by the hippest of the hipsters, and since there are about 2,300 JJs worldwide, with more coming every year, exiled Jimmy Johns workers are pretty much screwed.

You're probably wondering what justification Jimmy John's could possibly have for handcuffing minimum-wage workers like this. Well, join the club: the company refuses to give a reason, probably because every possible reason would be the dirt worst, and they know this.

These are just two examples, but sadly there are many, many more. For example, the real Colonel Sanders felt that KFC betrayed him by changing his recipes to make them easier to mass produce, which also made them of lesser quality. Pizza Hut charges a “delivery fee” that many customers assume goes to the driver, so they give him less of a tip to account for that. In reality, Pizza Hut gets the delivery fee and the delivery driver just ends up with less of a tip! Finally, most of remember the Wendy's “Where's the Beef” commercials from the 1980s. Well, the actress that starred in the ads was paid just pennies, and when she appeared in a Prego ad because she needed money, Wendy's promptly fired her!

This Might Have Us Double Thinking Our Favorite Fast Food Joint!

So, what do you think of your favorite fast food restaurants now that you've read all about what they're really like? As for us, we plan to cook at home more often, even if takes a little extra time. We just can't support businesses like these.

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Article & Photo Source: Grunge