Ray Kroc McDonald’s Restaurants Builder Title www abdopublishing com Published by Abdo Publishing a division of ABDO PO Box 398166 Minneapolis Minnesota 55439 Copyright 2015 by Abdo Consulting Group Inc International copyrights reserved in all countries No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher Checkerboard Library is a trademark and logo of Abdo Publishing Printed in the United States of America North Mankato Minnesota 052014 092014 Cover Photos Getty Images Interior Photos Alamy pp 14 21 Corbis pp 11 19 27 Getty Images pp 1 7 15 23 24 25 courtesy of McDonald’s Corporation pp 5 6 9 11 13 17 22 Series Coordinator BreAnn Rumsch Editors Megan M Gunderson BreAnn Rumsch Art Direction Cover Design Neil Klinepier Library of Congress Control Number 2014941021 Mattern Joanne 1963 Ray Kroc McDonald’s restaurants builder Joanne Mattern p cm Food dudes ISBN 978-1-62403-496-1 1 Kroc Ray 1902-1984 Juvenile literature 2 McDonald’s Corporation Juvenile literature 3 Restaurateurs United States Biography Juvenile literature I Title TX910 5 K76M38 2015 647 95092 dc23 B 2014941021
Contents A Born Salesman 4 Growing Up 6 Moving Around 8 The Multimixer 10 Meeting the McDonalds 12 First Franchise 14 Building a Business 16 The Big Sale 18 Getting Creative 20 Just for Kids 22 Part of the Community 24 Beyond the Arches 26 Timeline 28 Menu Milestones 29 Glossary 30 Websites 31 Index 32
Ray Kroc McDonald’s Restaurants Builder A Born Salesman Millions of people around the world enjoy eating hamburgers and fries at McDonald’s In fact you are probably one of them This restaurant chain started as a simple idea But Ray Kroc grew it into a huge successful business Today McDonald’s is a fast-food giant Raymond Albert Kroc was born in Oak Park Illinois on October 5 1902 His parents were Louis and Rose Kroc Louis worked for a communications company called Western Union Rose was a homemaker and a piano teacher The Krocs did not have a lot of money but Ray had a happy childhood He grew up with a younger brother and sister They were Robert and Lorraine Ray enjoyed playing with them He also liked playing baseball with other neighborhood children Ray was close to his parents He loved watching baseball with his father Rose began giving Ray piano lessons when he was six He enjoyed music and became a very good musician 4
From the time he was a young boy Ray was good at selling things He ran a lemonade stand in front of his house Later Ray worked in a grocery store and at a soda fountain He and his friends even started their own music store This early work set Ray on the path to becoming a successful businessman Ray right was close to Robert left and Lorraine center 5
