Meet the secretive billionaire who makes McDonald’s McNuggets, Burger King’s Impossible Whoppers and more: by chloesorvino
on The Forbes 400 this year, rarely talks to the press. That makes him the perfect low-key, behind-the-scenes partner for public and highly scrutinized brands like Kraft Heinz’s Oscar Mayer, Whole Foods and Chipotle, for whom it supplies 45 million pounds a year of steak, barbacoa, carnitas, sofritas, beans and salsas.
That is still very true today, though at the sunset of his career, Lavin allows himself to boast a bit. While he declined multiple requests to be interviewed for this article, he spoke to a blog, Professional Tales, in 2019 and reposted the interview That’s why in 1970 it tapped Lavin, then a 38-year-old banker, to figure out how to finance things. He got them their money and the loan officer was so impressed that he suggested Lavin should have a stake in the firm. He declined at the time, but a decade later, when the senior Otto retired, Lavin joined full-time as a partner and took a one-third stake, at McDonald’s urging. He became CEO shortly after that, and Otto & Sons changed its name to OSI.
into which he was inducted in 2013. “I might as well have gone back to finance. I wouldn’t have stayed if I couldn’t have grown it.” It was Lavin who pushed OSI to follow McDonald’s into foreign markets. It started with plants in Germany and Spain, followed by Latin America and later Eastern Europe as the Iron Curtain fell. He tried to predict where the chain would go next and was constantly flying around the world to meet with local meatpackers to size them up.
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