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 ...

Today, McDonald’s owns about 45% of the land and 70% of the buildings across its 36,000+ locations worldwide. Only 15% of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

"Ray exploded, and he had a great ability ... with some verisimilitude—the relationship between Kroc and the McDonald brothers, Lubin talked about being not long out of Harvard Law School ...