Biography of ray kroc

(1902-1984)

Who Was Ray Kroc?

Ray Kroc spent most of the first decades of his professional career selling paper cups and milkshake machines.

After discovering a popular California hamburger restaurant owned by Dick and Mac McDonald, he went into business with the brothers and launched the McDonald's franchise in 1955. Kroc purchased the company outright in 1961, and his strict operational guidelines helped transform McDonald's into the world’s largest restaurant franchise before his death in 1984, at the age of 81.

Early Life and Career

Raymond Albert Kroc was born to parents of Czech origin in Oak Park, Illinois, on October 5, 1902.

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As a child, he took piano lessons and displayed his developing business instincts through such ventures as opening a lemonade stand and working at a soda fountain.

Kroc participated in World War I as a Red Cross ambulance driver, lying about his age to begin serving at 15.

During his training, Kroc met Walt Disney, with whom he would