The unlikely story of McDonald's Philippines founder George Yang

The unlikely story of McDonald's Philippines founder George Yang

The story of George T. Yang, the visionary who brought McDonald's to the Philippines, is a tale of an underdog defying the odds. In the cutthroat world of international franchising, success often seems reserved for those with immense wealth and established power.In the 1970s, Yang, a freshly minted Wharton Business School graduate, found himself competing for the coveted McDonald's franchise rights against some of the Philippines' most formidabl…