RAYMOND KROC BIOGRAPHY

Raymond Kroc was born October 5, 1902, in Chicago. Kroc, who never finished school, was a volunteer ambulance driver during World War I.

Kroc was selling Mult-A-Mixer machines when he came across a restaurant owned by the McDonald brothers. After convincing the brothers to let him franchise their restaurant, Kroc turned the business into a national success and eventually bouth out the brothers in 1961.

Kroc wrote his autobiography, "Grinding It Out", in 1977. Raymond Kroc died in 1984.

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