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  McDonald’s, one of the world's leading food outlets, and business houses. Their gross profit for year 2022   was a whooping $13.207 billion, big money, shush to all their competitors. But nobody makes money over a 30 cent profit off a dollar’s burger, so how does the company really make money. I went around the web and researched how it actually fills its pockets. There are some 36,000 McDonald’s locations worldwide, but only 5% of them are company owned, rest of them are franchised out. Here comes the pro-gamer move in the business, only the real estate of the land upon which the outlet is built is owned by the company, the individual who signed the franchise contract is responsible for all the costs for running the outlet, with an additional $45,000 franchise fee and a monthly service fee of 4% of gross sales. Smart. Damn smart. They are not in the food business; they are essentially in the real estate business. A good reason to sell 15 cent burgers to make the tenant...

  If you read the title and immediately got reminded of the show – ‘How Do They Do It’ that was aired back in the days on Discovery channel, us bro, us; keep reading.   So, its 26 th of May and I am drafting this. Coming back to the title, I particularly loved that show, again a random fact but well read the blog’s name again. There were many other shows on Discovery Channel that I loved as a kid, one of them being the legendary Man vs Wild. It used to be aired at 9 PM and it was both fun and gross to watch Bear Grylls eat some lizard he just hunted in the desert. Its been a long time I’ve posted anything, well I had some quizzes and assignments in the past few days which couldn’t let me post. I was actually in a class when I just randomly remembered about the show How Do They Do It, then I thought why not ask the people who read my blogs about it, so you guys  also miss some really nice shows that you watched as a kid? There’s a carpenter working in my room while ...

  King Of The Hill At 9:35 AM, On March 13, 1986, Microsoft’s stock was traded publicly on the New York Stock Exchange for the first time. It opened at $25.75 per share, By the end of the first day, some 3.6 million shares had changed hands. It peaked at $29.25 before closing for the day at $27.75. – from the book Hard Drive. These are some of the lines from the book Hard Drive – a biography of the tech titan Bill Gates. They are just crazy, ridiculously crazy words for someone like me, and people who follow business and tech and know its fantastic history. So this is me writing on a windy, very windy Sunday at 1845 hours. So, as I said I would be writing more after my mid semester exams, this is where I am starting. As an avid non fiction reader, the most I read are biographies and autobiographies, I guess I have already mentioned that but anyways. So coming back to the books, one of the best I have read is Hard Drive , the Bill Gate bio. While reading it, I got gooseb...