Not long ago, Rob Lowe appeared on the Jimmy Kimmel show with a golden McDonald's card which gives him unlimited access to the restaurant's food. Now, everyone's been wondering: how do I get one of my own?
Unfortunately, you have to be—or know—a pretty remarkable person in order to earn one of these cards. It was on the Jimmy Kimmel Show where Rob Lowe explained how he got his card. He said that his friend's father was the one who invented the McMuffin and thus he was given a card.
As reported by the Independent, David Peterson's father, whose name is Herb, created the McMuffin and then co-owned a Santa Barbara, California franchise of a McDonald's with his son. When he passed away in 2008, the fast food restaurant went to his son who then gave Rob Lowe the now famous 'McGold Card.' While it is nice to get free food from a restaurant, Rob is only entitled to free McDonald's at that specific chain only.
The only other way to 'earn' a Gold Card, is to do something heroic. Charles Ramsey, the man who stopped eating his Big Mac to save three kidnapped women in May of 2013, was given a gold card for free McDonald's at all locations for one whole year and was also given another gold card for unlimited McDonald's food at all locations in Ohio for the rest of his life.