McDonalds

McDonalds

1. Your task for today
•Research a business entrepreneur you have
been given.
•Once you have all of the relevant information –
enhance your slides with graphics, animations,
action buttons and colour.
•Make it as interesting and exciting as you can –
DO NOT CUT AND PASTE INFORMATION.
•Save in the shared area.
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Folders – Entrepreneur

3. Picture of Ray Kroc :
Picture of Logo

4. Ray Kroc was born in Chicago, Illinois,
United States
He was born on October 15
th
1902 and
died on the 14
th
January 1984 at 81 years
old
He died because of Heart Failure
Ray Kroc is worth an estimated 500million
pounds!

5. •Ray Kroc was a
business man who
took over the small
business (at the time)
of McDonalds in 1954
and built it into one of
the most successful
fast food restaurants
in the world
Ray Kroc
1954

6. During World War 1, Ray Kroc lied about his age to
become an ambulance driver for the Red Cross. After
serving the society as a driver for the Red Cross he
moved to Chicago and became a jazz pianist as well as
a salesman.
He decided to settle down in 1922, and married Ethel. With
all Ray Kroc’s experiences in the sales business he
decided to study in the fast food business. He started
with being a milkshake make, and at this milkshake
place of his, he found his partner in the business,
Richard McDonald and Maurice McDonald.

7. •Did you know that around 300,413 people
eat at a McDonalds a day ?
•The first shop opened in 1955 in Chicago
as the organization became the
McDonald's Corporation. Six years later
Ray bought out the founding brothers. By
1965 there were more than 700 sites in
existence across the United States.

8. •McDonald's opens a new restaurant every
four hours.
McDonald's has sold well over 100 billion
hamburgers.
Antarctica is the only continent that does
not have a McDonald's restaurant - yet.