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He took someone else's idea and America ate it up.
The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
John Lee Hancock
Don Handfield
$15,000,000
$24,121,245

Ray Kroc

Dick McDonald

Mac McDonald

Joan Smith

Harry J. Sonneborn

Ethel Kroc

Fred Turner

June Martino

Rollie Smith

Jim Zien

Jerry Cullen

Jack Horford