Kroc biography
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Joan Kroc
American philanthropist (1928–2003)
Joan Beverly Kroc (néeMansfield, previously Smith; August 27, 1928 – October 12, 2003), also known as Joni,[1] was an American philanthropist and third wife of McDonald's CEO Ray Kroc.
Early life
[edit]Joan Beverly Mansfield was born on August 27, 1928, in West St. Paul, Minnesota. Her father, Charles Smart Mansfield,[2] was a store keeper and later a railroad telegraph operator and salesman.[3]
Marriage and family
[edit]In 1945, Mansfield married Rawland F. "Rollie" Smith,[4][5][6] a Navy veteran who would become a McDonald's franchisee, eventually owning three stores in Rapid City, South Dakota. The couple's only child, a daughter named Linda, was born the following year.[7]
Mansfield met McDonald's Corp. founder Ray Kroc, who was 26 years her senior, while playing the organ at the Criterion Restaurant in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1957.[8] • • (1902-1984) Ray Kroc spent most of the first decades of his professional career selling paper cups and milkshake machines. After discovering a popular California hamburger restaurant owned by Dick and Mac McDonald, he went into business with the brothers and launched the McDonald's franchise in 1955. Kroc purchased the company outright in 1961, and his strict operational guidelines helped transform McDonald's into the world’s largest restaurant franchise before his death in 1984, at the age of 81. Raymond Albert Kroc was born to parents of Czech origin in Oak Park, Illinois, on October 5, 1902. As a child, he took piano lessons and displayed his developing business instincts through such ventures as opening a lemonade stand and working at a soda fountain. Kroc participated in World War I as a Red Cross ambulance driver, lying about his age to begin serving at 15. During his training, Kroc met Walt Disney, with whom he would Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's
And yet, the film would have us believe he still ostensibly wakes up to smell the grease and relishes his daily submerging of his enemies in the proverbial deep fryer.
But after consuming Grinding it Out in earnest, I felt that this view of Kroc was most certainly not the hot-blooded, notorious hellspawn he is made out to be—at least according to his own account of himself. Naturally, it’s quite charitable and generous towards his own apparently fantastisk feats of business and anställda successes. Still, I’m actually more partial to his own konto far more than I thought I might be—even if it is far rosier than perhaps is the case.
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