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Biography of Ray Kroc

Ray Kroc, the founder of the McDonald's fast-food restaurant chain, was an American businessman who was inspired by the idea of developing a small restaurant owned by the 'McDonald's Corporation' and turned it into the world's most successful fast-food chain.

With an estimated fortune of $500 million, Kroc was included in Time magazine's list of the hundred most influential people of the century.

Biography fast food kroc ray

Starting in 1974, he also owned the professional baseball club 'San Diego Padres'.

Raymond Albert Kroc was born on October 5, 1902, in Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, to Czech immigrants. During World War I, he trained to become an ambulance driver, but the war ended before Kroc could be deployed to the frontlines.

From the early 1920s until the early 1950s, Ray pursued various occupations, such as selling paper cups, working as a piani