How did ray kroc die

Ray Kroc was an American businessman famous for fast food company McDonald's. Ray Kroc's full name is Raymond Albert Kroc. He was born in Oak Park, Illinois, near Chicago in the U.S. in the year 1902, October 5. Most of his childhood time was spent in Oak Park. He purchased McDonald's in 1961 and worked as CEO in that company from 1967 to 1973. Kroc is famous because he turned McDonald's into the most successful fast-food corporation in the world. After retirement from the company, he owned a baseball team from 1974 until his death. He transformed McDonald's into the world's largest franchise fast-food company before his death.

The Early Life of Ray Kroc

He grew up and spent most of his childhood in his birthplace, Oak Park. In childhood, he took piano lessons and displayed his business development skills by opening a lemonade stand and also worked in a soda fountain. He also did various kinds of work at that time, like selling paper cups and milkshake machines in Florida.

During world war I, he told a lie about his age and became an ambulance driver of Red Cross hospital at th

Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's

December 19, 2023
After watching The Founder I naturally believed Ray Kroc to be an irrepressible, rapacious—yet bizaarely talented—bastard. He apparently only operates in a French-fry scented sea of amorality, and seemed to think nothing of his complacent-yet-mostly-supportive wife.

And yet, the film would have us believe he still ostensibly wakes up to smell the grease and relishes his daily submerging of his enemies in the proverbial deep fryer.

But after consuming Grinding it Out in earnest, I felt that this view of Kroc was most certainly not the hot-blooded, notorious hellspawn he is made out to be—at least according to his own account of himself. Naturally, it’s quite charitable and generous towards his own apparently amazing feats of business and personal successes. Still, I’m actually more partial to his own account far more than I thought I might be—even if it is far rosier than perhaps is the case.

He not only is like a real life Horacio Algers hero (from zero to ‘hero’ through sheer determination and resourcefu

Ray Kroc

American business magnate (1902–1984)

Ray Kroc

Kroc in 1976

Born

Raymond Albert Kroc


(1902-10-05)October 5, 1902

Oak Park, Illinois, U.S.

DiedJanuary 14, 1984(1984-01-14) (aged 81)

San Diego, California, U.S.

Spouses

Ethel Fleming

(m. 1922; div. 1961)​

Jane Dobbins Green

(m. 1963; div. 1968)​

Joan Smith

(m. 1969)​
Children1

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Raymond Albert Kroc (October 5, 1902 – January 14, 1984) was an American businessman, widely regarded as the "Founder of McDonald's" for his role in turning the singular hamburger stand into the most successful global fast food corporation by revenue. He seized control of McDonald's from the McDonald Brothers in 1961, after several years as their franchising agent, and served as its CEO from 1967 to 1973.

Kroc was born in Oak Park, Illinois, and worked a variety of jobs, including as a paper cup salesman and

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