Ray Kroc - fast food Millionaire

• Ray Kroc was the ultimate competator
• McDonalds is the most recognized brand around the world
• He made himself a millionaire
• he was born in chicago in 1902
• He had a brother bob and sister loaraine
• He lived in chicago
• he was more ambitious that other kids
•  He was 4 and he went to see a finologist
• While in grammer school, he started a lemonade stand
• and worked at a grocery store
• He saw the world as one big place to sell to
• He was always thinking of way to make more money
• he wouldnt take no for an answer, his ideas were always possible
• He spent many years loving baseball
• Ray was looking for an excuse to quit school and when world war 1 came around
• He joined the red cross to help but the war ended before he could join
• He tried school but quit after
• He met a woman ethel flemming and his father didnt aprove
• ray found work within a few days and ray was a natural born salesman
• he was young ambitious and willing to work hard
• He was meticulous about his appearance
• He found the client that would make him a top contender at his company
• He signed a contract with wallgreen
• He sold paper cups for 15 years
• Work was everything to ray
• He learned everything to become the absolute best
• He saw value in a machine that one of his customers had a milkshgake machine
• he became the multimixers main sales man
• As he aproached 50 his business slowed down
• He lost customers by the dozen
• In1954 he met Dick and Mac McDonald
• two brothers from newhampshire
• and they were off to seek their fortune
• For 8 years the drive in was sucsessful
• the created a new way to speed up service and chancged from car hop service they changed to self service
• The cut serving time from 20 min to 13 seconds
• Sales shot uip 40% in 3 years
• McDonalds became famous
• He signed a contract to sell the McDonalds brother method
• before he started business he had to start be buying the competition
• by mid 50's ray kroc open his fist resraunt in chicago
• he was a man who would spend so much time making it spotless
• he sold over 50 million hamburgers
• He sold 18 franchises in the first year
• In 1957 He fell in love witha nother woman
• he was smitten with Joan
• He left his wife but joan wouldnt leave her husband
• Him and joan ended up getting together she left her husband and he left his wife