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The couple's only child, a daughter named Linda, was born the following year. [7] Mansfield met McDonald's Corp. founder Ray Kroc, who was 26 years her senior, while playing the organ at the Criterion Restaurant in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1957. [8] [9] Ray said in his autobiography that he "was stunned by her blonde beauty". They were both ...
Kroc and Fleming met in 1919, married in 1922, and then moved to Chicago, Illinois. Their daughter Marilyn was born in 1924. [38] He married his third wife, Joan Smith (née Mansfield) in 1969. Joan Kroc was a philanthropist who significantly increased her charitable
After they purchased eight of his Multi-Mixers for their San Bernardino, California restaurant, Kroc visited that restaurant in 1954. [12] That year the McDonald brothers hired Kroc as their franchise agent. Kroc took 1.9% of gross sales, of which the McDonald brothers got 0.5%. [13] [14]
Ray Kroc, a Multimixer salesman, stumbled upon the original McDonald's brothers' burger restaurant in 1954. Kroc became McDonald's first franchisee and transformed the restaurant into a global empire.
June Martino (August 10, 1917 – January 29, 2005) was an American businesswoman who became Ray Kroc's bookkeeper in 1948 and ultimately rose to Corporate Secretary, Treasurer, Director and part-owner of McDonald's Corporation.
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
“Everything had to be an A… an A-plus,” Ray tells PEOPLE about the eldest of his four children
Her daughter Dorothy Comiskey Rigney inherited the team from her. Two women have independently owned majority stakes of an MLB franchise without inheriting it. Joan Whitney Payson , previously a minority owner of the New York Giants , was the first owner of the New York Mets and played a big role in bringing the National League back to New York ...