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Associated Press. Ray Kroc, the Illinois native who bought McDonald's in 1961 for $2.7 million and built it into the most profitable fast-food chain in the world, is known for implementing the ...
Raymond Albert Kroc (October 5, 1902 – January 14, 1984) was an American businessman. He purchased the fast food company McDonald's in 1961 from the McDonald brothers and was its CEO from 1967 to 1973. Kroc is credited with the global expansion of McDonald's, turning it into the most successful fast food corporation in the world by revenue ...
The Founder is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by John Lee Hancock and written by Robert Siegel.Starring Michael Keaton as businessman Ray Kroc, the film depicts the story of his creation of the McDonald's fast-food restaurant chain, which eventually involved forcing out the company's original founders to take control with conniving ruthlessness.
McMillions (stylized as McMillion$) is a documentary miniseries about the McDonald's Monopoly promotion scam that occurred between 1989 and 2001. Directed by James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte, the series details how the scam was perpetrated by Jerry Jacobson, [1] the head of security for the agency that ran the promotion, and how he recruited a wide range of accomplices.
It opened under the aegis of his franchising company McDonald's Systems, Inc., which became McDonald's Corporation after Kroc purchased the McDonald brothers' stake in the firm. Kroc's restaurant was the first McDonald's built in a colder climate, and some adaptations were made to the design, including a basement with a furnace.
The Kroc Center in San Francisco, California, broke ground in June 2006, and the Kroc Center in Atlanta, Georgia, formally known as The Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Center: A Center for Worship and Education, broke ground in 2007. The San Francisco Kroc Center received $53 million (equivalent to $99 million in 2023).
McRefugee is a neologism and McWord referring to those who stay overnight in a 24-hour McDonald's fast food restaurant. [1]The term was first created in Japanese: makku nanmin (マック難民). [2]
His son, Mark Cohon, was the 12th commissioner of the Canadian Football League. [13] In 2000, George Cohon was diagnosed with prostate cancer, but fully recovered. [5] In 2004, he was rejected from Toronto's Rosedale Golf Club due to his Jewish heritage.