Ray Kroc

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Ray Kroc

• By Aaron B.

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Childhood

• Ray was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1902
• He was born to Luis and Rose Kroc
• Has 2 younger siblings Robert and Lorraine Kroc
• He worked with his uncle Earl in a soda store.

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Joining the Army

• When World War II started he lied about his age
  to become a ambulance driver with Walt Disney
• He worked for the Red Cross transporting dead or
  wounded troops

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Coming home

• On Rays return he went to Chicago and worked at
  many jobs
• He worked as a pianist, and real-estate salesmen

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Getting Started

• He also play in a band at the Paw-Paw Lake,
  Michigan.
• Where he met his future wife Ethel Flemming
• They got married in 1922

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1940s

• Became a seller of the multimixer that can mix up
  to 5 milk shakes at one time
• His best customers was the McDonalds brothers
  (Richard, and Maurice (Mac) ) They bought 8
  mixers for there fast food restaurants

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1950s
First Ronald McDonald

• In 1954 Kroc went to California, to visit the
  McDonalds brother's restaurants.
• Wanted to start his own restaurant based on the
  McDonalds restaurant.
• He then convinced the brothers to sell him the
  franchise for the McDonald restaurants for 2.7
  million dollars.

Willard Scott
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1963-death

• In 1961 he divorced His wife Ethel and several
  years later meet a women named Joan and married
  her in 1969.
• By 1963 sales had reached 37 million dollars and
  over 1 billion hamburgers had been sold.
• He served as a senior chairman from 1977 until he
  died.
• Ray died in 1984 of heart failure