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Ray Kroc was born in Oak Park illinois. Oak Park illinois is a village adjacent to the western side of the city of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States.
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when he was only 15 Ray Kroc lied about his age to become an ambulance driver for WW1 but right after he finished training the war ended.
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In 1917, He worked as a piano player, a paper cup salesman and a multi-mixer salesman.
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"None of Us is as Good as All of Us."
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"The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves."
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Dick and Mac Mcdonald opens Mcdonalds Bar-B-Q Resteraunt on Fourteen and E street in San Bernardino, California.
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"If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business."
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Ray Kroc began a new age in franchising when he became the national agent for McDonald's.
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The very first Mcdonalds opened in Des Plaines, Illinois 1955
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The very first Mcdonalds opened in Des Plaines, Illinois 1955
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Shortly after buying Mcdonalds Ray Kroc ran into a few financial troubles and auctually ended up bankrupt but after a few years he recovered.
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Ray Kroc buys out Dick and Mack Mcdonald for $2.7million
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By the time Kroc bought out the McDonald brothers in 1961 for a mere $2.7 million, he had established 228 restaurants and sales had reached $37 million. By the end of 1963 the company had sold more than one billion hamburgers, an achievement proudly advertised beneath its restaurants’ trademark “golden arches.”
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Mcdonalds sells their 1 billionth hamburger
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Mcdonalds goes international first to Canada then Europe
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Ray Kroc became a hero for reasons completely unrelated to business. He purchased the San Diego Padres baseball team and prevented them from moving to Washington, D.C.
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Mcdonalds enters the egg mcmuffin onto the National breakfast menu.
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Mcdonalds 5000th restaurant opens in Kanawaga Japan.
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Ray Kroc died in San Diego. San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States of America and second-largest city in California. The city is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, immediately adjacent to the Mexican border.
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Right up until he died on January 14, 1984, Ray Kroc never stopped working for McDonald's. Even when he was confined to a wheelchair, he still went to work in the office in San Diego nearly every day. He would keep a hawk's eye over the McDonald's restaurant near his office, phoning the manager to remind him to pick up the trash, clean his lot, and turn on the lights at night.
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