Mitt Romney's Dad Got Free McDonald's for Life

A little card, signed by the McDonald's founder, entitled "George W. Romney to a lifetime of a hamburger, a shake, and french fries"

By Sam Dean

August 9, 2012

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At a campaign event on Wednesday, Mitt Romney shared a rare personal detail about his childhood, and let slip the existence of a "Free McDonald's for Life" card that not even McDonald's employees knew existed. Here's Romney's story of what he found in his dad's dresser drawer:

I found a little paper card, a little pink card, and it said 'This entitles George W. Romney to a lifetime of a hamburger, a shake, and French fries at McDonald's.' It was signed by the hand of [former McDonald's executive] Ray Kroc. My dad had done a little training lesson or whatever for McDonald's when there was just a handful of restaurants and I saw this thing and was like, 'This is a gold mine, Dad! What are you doing?' So I had it laminated. My dad, as you know, would go almost every day to a McDonald's restaurant and get either a hamburger or a fish filet sandwich. And he would present this little card and of course the person behind the counter would look and say, 'Well, what is that?' They'd never seen something like that, but he said it was never turned down. They always honored it.

That sounds more like something out of Monopoly than real life! Lucky for the Romney campaign that Mitt's dad never abused the privilege and got his card revoked.

[via Mother Jones]