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1. www.youtube.com › playlistRay Kroc Playlist: Documentaries, Lectures, and ... - YouTube

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2. www.youtube.com › watchRay Kroc: The Man Who Built McDonald's at 52 - YouTube

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   At 52, Ray Kroc was selling milkshake machines, far from the image of a business titan.

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3. www.youtube.com › watchLeadership Lessons | Ray Kroc: The Visionary Behind ... - YouTube

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   In this episode, we dive deep into the remarkable journey of Ray Kroc, the visionary entrepreneur who transformed McDonald's from a small hamburger stand int...

4. www.history.com › shows › the-food-that-builtWatch The Food That Built America Season 5 Episode 12 ...

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   Jul 28, 2024 · In the 1950s, middle-aged salesman Ray Kroc is drowning in debt when he’s inspired by a roadside burger stand he wants to spread nationwide–McDonald’s.

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5. www.bbc.co.uk › news › business-51208592How McDonald's revolutionised business - BBC News

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   Feb 5, 2020 · Presenter, 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy. The way Ray Kroc tells the story, when he first encouraged the McDonald brothers to open more hamburger restaurants, they winced. The year was...

6. www.theatlantic.com › business › archiveHow Ray Kroc Became an American Villain - The Atlantic

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   Jan 26, 2017 · Esquire named Kroc to a list of 50 people who contributed to American life in the 20th century, placing him in a category of visionaries, alongside the likes of Abraham Maslow, Reinhold Niebuhr,...

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   Who was Ray Kroc?

   • Ray Kroc was in his 50s, and managing health problems from diabetes to arthritis. But he was keener on money than peaceful sunsets, and he loved life on the road. Kroc later wrote that "finding locations for McDonald's is the most creatively fulfilling thing I can imagine".

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   Is Ray Kroc the embodiment of the American Dream?

   • Ray Kroc was not only held up as the embodiment of the American Dream, but a purveyor of it as well. To some, the contours of this American Dream now sound as quaint and outdated as the styrofoam McDonald’s clam shell containers that sit on display in the National Museum of American History.

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   Did Ray Kroc lose a gall bladder?

   • I had lost my gall bladder and most of my thyroid gland in earlier campaigns,” Ray Kroc wrote in Grinding It Out, his 1977 autobiography and a seminal document on 20th-century American capitalism. “But I was convinced that the best was ahead of me.”

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   Why is Kroc so famous?

   • Kroc would go on to famously mastermind the franchising system, turning McDonald’s from a San Bernardino sapling into an American roadside staple and, eventually, the world’s most-recognizable brand.

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   How does Kroc end a day in a motel room?

   • Early in the film, Kroc ends a long day on the road in a motel room where he sits with a tumbler of Early Times whiskey and listens to an audio recording of a fictional book called “The Power of the Positive” by a fictional author named Dr. Clarence Floyd Nelson.

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   Did Kroc sell milkshakes?

   • Kroc sold milkshake machines and Richard and Maurice (Mac) McDonald were among his best customers. Their restaurant was small, but sold lots of milkshakes. Clearly, they were doing something right. But they did not want to do more of it, and Mac explained why: "We sit out on the porch in the evenings and watch the sunset. It's peaceful."

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8. anbhf.org › laureates › ray-krocRay Kroc – American National Business Hall of Fame, ANBHF

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   Ray Kroc himself made a total commitment of his time and resources to the goal of dominating the fast food industry. By 1960 his strategy and its effective execution had created a chain of 228 stores with sales in excess of $56 million.