Albert Raymond "Ray" Kroc was born in Oak Park, Illinois on October 5, 1902. Son of emigrants of Czechoslovak origin, was initially a partner in a milkshake machine company (although before that he sold paper cups, such as the McDonald's continues to use until now). When McDonald's, a company still unknown to him, sought an order of 8 machines (the average of its undertaking at the time was 1), decided to go in person to know. Mr. Kroc was fascinated by the local cleanup, plus the speed with which customers were served. His vision of an entrepreneur, perhaps, he said that his company should be. So it was in 1955, McDonald's and bought that restaurant became California's Route 66 in a chain of fast food restaurants known worldwide.Dubbed the Hamburger King was listed in TIME magazine's 100 most influential people in the world in the category of builders and titans of industry. He amassed a fortune of over $ 500 million during his lifetime.
Among the favorite pastimes of Kroc was his passion for baseball, who met with the purchase by $ 10 million, the team Los Padres, San Diego. Was also a foundation to combat alcoholismoy was trained, along with Walt Disney to be an ambulance driver in World War I (although this ended before it could act as such).
Divorced and remarried, Kroc left between their descendants to his wife Joan, his daughter, four grandchildren Lindsay, 81 years old, Ray Kroc died in early 1984, not without having left and created one of the most influential companies in the world .
