From a paper cup seller to a pianist, a DJ on the radio, to a billionaire with the largest fast food chain and owner of the baseball team (inspirational success stories)

Inspirational success stories from a paper cup seller to a billionaire the world has ever known

Raymond Albert "Ray" Kroc (born October 5, 1902 - died January 14, 1984) is an American businessman. The McDonald's brothers participated in 1954 and expanded the restaurant to become the most successful fast food restaurant in the world. He collected a great fortune during his life. The baseball team owned San Diego Padres from 1974 until his death in Ray Krook, an American with origins in the Czech Republic in Oak Park near Chicago, he spent his childhood and most of his life in Oak Park in Illinois, at the outbreak of World War I falsified his date of birth to join the Red Cross and work A driver of the war ambulance when he was fifteen, after the end of the war, he worked in many fields, where he worked as a seller of paper cups, a pianist, and a jazz musician, and he was a member of one of the teams, then worked as a DJ on radio radio, as he worked in One of the Ray Damage chain restaurants in the Northeastern Region, and one day he met a man named Earl Prince who owned a machine to mix and pour drinks that he invented and sells the milkshake to in the United States. To sell milkshake. After a period of time, his sales of Milkshake began to decline continuously, but he noticed that he had two of his biggest customers in purchasing drinks, the two brothers Dick Recherck and Mac Morris MacDonald, as they asked him to buy more than eight machines for pouring drinks at once, in order to use them in their restaurants in California , Which made him go straight to meet them in 1954. Upon entering the restaurant, Crooke noticed that the restaurant-based system is not traditional, as the McDonald brothers are dependent on self-service for customers, and there are no tables or places to sit, and the two brothers focused on cooking and preparing sandwiches, potato chips and drinks on paper dishes quickly, and Ray Crooke was dazzled in the efficiency of the two brothers And their success in managing the restaurant and providing services with good quality and fast services at the same time and this method of work was not popular in those days.

During that period, Crooke offered the McDonald’s brothers the idea of ​​expanding the restaurant into a large chain, and took upon himself the responsibility of the expansion and Crooke began to address Walt Disney and sent him a message stating that he wanted to establish a restaurant within his city that was in its final stages of construction, but Walt Disney did not respond to the message At that time, Crook did not disappoint, but rather corresponded with the other partners. Crooke worked on obtaining the same quality and the same taste of burgers in all of the McDonald's branches that were established in 1948, and he had firm rules to get what he wanted and to keep all the branches on the same level, so even the way of cutting the meat was uniform in all the branches, and after the expansion of the McDonald's chain of restaurants was Crooke marketing ideas for a greater breadth of restaurants, used many celebrities who have a place and importance in society to come out at that time with ads encouraging visiting McDonald's restaurants that are characterized by quality and delicious taste, and indeed increased sales during that period.

After that,the three partners disagreed with the two brothers MacDonald and Ray Crooke, because Crooke wanted to change some things that the two brothers refused in return, which led him to buy the full share of the two brothers MacDonald for $ 2.7 million, and in fact he had this in 1961, so he became the only actor in management and activity All of it, but at first the two brothers did not agree to sell the main branch of the restaurant that was included under the name The Big M, but Crock's insistence that all branches be at the head of the main branch established a competing restaurant for the two brothers' restaurant, so they agreed to compete in what forced them to sell the restaurant. Everyone was saying that the secret of Crooke's success lies in his philosophy that imposes maintaining the same taste and quality in all of his restaurants, and the strict rules of Rock in achieving this thing was an important factor in the acquisition of his fortune, which amounted to $ 500 million, and according to the American Times magazine, Rock was counted among the top 100 Personality in the twentieth century. Today, the giant company owns more than 35 thousand restaurants in more than 100 countries around the world, and at McDonald's restaurants eat 69 million people daily, and its profits amount to 28 billion dollars in 2012, according to the official website of the company!