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.

The growing estrangement between the original McDonald’s brothers and Ray Kroc, this amazing salesman who had this much bigger vision? Did they calibrate the emotional intensity of that in an ...

We felt a responsibility to history. We felt a responsibility to the McDonald brothers and to Ray Kroc to be as factual as possible. We didn’t have a responsibility to make anyone look good or ...

In 1961, Kroc paid the brothers $2.7 million for the rights to the McDonald’s name. “Ray has a vision of global domination for McDonald’s and does not want the two small-town hamburger guys ...

However, if Ray Croc had never entered the McDonald brothers’ business in 1955, things would have turned out very differently ...

It laid the groundwork for modern fast food. In 1954, Ray Kroc — a milkshake machine salesman — visited the McDonald brothers and was blown away by their efficient operation. He saw massive ...

Multimixer salesman and McDonald's Corporation founder Ray Kroc first met the McDonald brothers in 1954 while attempting to sell them more Multimixers for their restaurants. It was then that Kroc ...

The actor is eyeing a role as fast-food mogul Ray Kroc in the movie ... his refusal to honor a handshake agreement to pay the McDonald brothers a 1.9 percent royalty fee after buying the company ...