Ray Kroc
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Raymond "Ray" Albert Kroc
• October 5, 1902 – January 14, 1984
• Kroc was a Czech American businessman
who took over the small-scale McDonald’s
Corporation franchise in 1954 and built it
into the most successful fast food
operation in the world
• He also owned a baseball team called San
Diego Padres (starting 1974)
Early life
• Borned in Chicago in
1902
• Had alot of jobs
before he became
rich starting whit:
paper cup seller to
band member
• Became a multi-mixer
milkshake machine
salesman, traveling
around the world
The birth of McDonalds
• He partnered whit the McDonald brothers,
afther the few years he bought the fast
food chain from them ($2,7 million dollars)
• He invented a many new meals what
became popular (hulaburger – whit
pineapple slices) Ray Kroc became a very
rich man
Hulaburger and Ray Kroc
biography
Kroc’s death and personal life
• Died of heart failure in January 14, 1984 at
the age of 81
• Kroc was married 3 times
• Toward the end of his life, Kroc used a
mobility aid to get around, an Amigo
mobility vehicle (sometimes referred to as
a Li'l Rascal)
Kroc’s highest moments
• Kroc was included in Times 100: The Most
Important People of the Century and amassed a
$500 million fortune during his lifetime.
• The former Dire Straits released a song about
Ray Kroc on his 2004 album Shangli-La. It was
inspired by Ray Kroc's autobiography Grinding it
out and the starting of McDonald's, using many
of Mr. Kroc's exact words: "Kroc style, boom like
that."