*McDonalds
*
Ray Krok invested his entire life savings to become the distributor of a five-spindled milk shake maker called the Multimixer. Hearing about the McDonald's hamburger stand running eight Multimixers at a time, he headed west, to California. The year was 1954 and he was 52 years old.
Ray Krok had never seen so many people served so quickly when he pulled up. Ray Krok suggested the idea of opening several restaurants to the brothers Dick and Mac McDonald. "Who could we get to open them for us?" Dick McDonald asked. Krok answered,"How about me?"
In 1955, Ray Krok opened the Des Plaines restaurant. On the first day they earned $366.12! On the first day in Kuwait City, Kuwait, they had 15,000 customers, and the drive-up window had a line seven miles long! Did you know that Ronald McDonald is the second most known person in the world? Only Santa Claus is more popular.
*McDonalds and the golden arch logo are trademarks of McDonalds Corporation and are used with permission..1 McDonalds Drive, Oak Brook, Illinois, 60523. March 10, 1999, 10:25 a.m.