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Here are the shocking secrets harbored by four of the top fast food chains not only in America, but also all across the world. We may never eat fast food again!

the McDonald Brothers were put out of business…by a McDonalds
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.

Jimmy John's makes regular employees sign non-compete contracts
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.

Colonel Sanders hated what KFC did to his recipes
Sanders, having made his name on delicious chicken and gravy, sold KFC in 1964. But to the bottom-line-obsessed new owners, his recipes were terrible for mass production. As one executive put it, “The Colonel's gravy was fantastic but you had to be a Rhodes Scholar to cook it.” So they dumbed down the recipes, and Sanders (who remained with KFC as a goodwill ambassador) was incensed by this. He'd regularly visit KFCs and loudly dismiss the gravy's taste with “[it] ain't fit for my dogs” and the chicken as “a damn fried doughball stuck on some chicken.”

Pizza Hut's “delivery fee” is probably a tip-slashing scam
According to an August 2015 lawsuit filed by two former delivery drivers—one of whom worked for the company for seven years—the Hut's “delivery fees” don't actually go to the delivery people, but to Pizza Hut itself. So if you order a $10 pizza with a $2 fee, you're paying Pizza Hut $12 for that pizza. And if you don't tip, thinking $2 is already 20 percent, the driver gets nothing and the company gets everything. Good luck getting service with a smile after that snafu.

We've eaten a lot of fast food over the years, and while we only thought of how convenient it was, now we're a little embarrassed that we've been lining the pockets of some of the world's most unscrupulous business people. We still like our fast food, but we'll never look at it in quite the same way again!

Article Source: Grunge