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Ray Kroc

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Raymond Albert "Ray" Kroc (October 5, 1902 – January 14, 1984) was an American businessman. [1]

87 relations: A&E (TV channel), Alcoholism, American Red Cross, Arby's, Assembly line, Ballard F. Smith, Břasy, Boom, Like That, Bowie Kuhn, Building code, Burger Chef, Burger King, California, Charles Scribner's Sons, Chicago, Czechs, Des Plaines, Illinois, Detroit, Disneyland, El Camino Memorial Park, Emergency medical technician, Eric Schlosser, Fairfax County Public Library, Fast food, Fast Food Nation, Franchising, Free agent, Gale (publisher), Graig Nettles, Great Depression, Hamilton Beach Brands, Hardee's, HarperCollins, Harrison A. Williams, Harry J. Sonneborn, Heart failure, History of McDonald's, Houston Astros, Illinois, Joan Kroc, Joe Morgan, John Lee Hancock, Kenneth T. Jackson, KFC, List of ambulance drivers during World War I, List of The New York Times employees, Mark Knopfler, McDonald's, Michael Keaton, Milkshake, ..., Minimum wage, New Deal, New Statesman, New York City, NNDB, Nuclear proliferation, Oak Park, Illinois, Old Greenwich, Connecticut, People (magazine), Philadelphia, Philanthropy, Plzeň, Republican Party (United States), Richard and Maurice McDonald, Richard Nixon, Ronald McDonald House Charities, San Bernardino, California, San Diego, San Diego Padres, San Diego Padres Hall of Fame, SDCCU Stadium, Sorrento Valley, San Diego, Standardization, Stroke, Temple University Press, The Founder, The New York Times, The Salvation Army, The Salvation Army Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Centers, The San Diego Union-Tribune, Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century, Walt Disney, Washington, D.C., World War I, 1972 San Diego Padres season, 1974 San Diego Padres season, 1984 World Series. Expand index (37 more) »

A&E (TV channel)

A&E is an American digital cable and satellite television television channel.

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Alcoholism

Alcoholism, also known as alcohol use disorder (AUD), is a broad term for any drinking of alcohol that results in mental or physical health problems.

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American Red Cross

The American Red Cross (ARC), also known as the American National Red Cross, is a humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance, disaster relief, and disaster preparedness education in the United States.

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Arby's

Arby's is an American quick-service fast-food sandwich restaurant chain with more than 3,300 restaurants system wide and third in terms of revenue.

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Assembly line

An assembly line is a manufacturing process (often called a progressive assembly) in which parts (usually interchangeable parts) are added as the semi-finished assembly moves from workstation to workstation where the parts are added in sequence until the final assembly is produced.

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Ballard F. Smith

Ballard F. Smith (born 1946) is a former President of the San Diego Padres major league baseball franchise.

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Břasy

Břasy (German "Bschas") is a village in western Bohemia, Rokycany District, Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic.

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Boom, Like That

"Boom, Like That" is a 2004 single by Mark Knopfler, from his album Shangri-La.

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Bowie Kuhn

Bowie Kent Kuhn (October 28, 1926 – March 15, 2007) was an American lawyer and sports administrator who served as the fifth Commissioner of Major League Baseball from February 4, 1969, to September 30, 1984.

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Building code

A building code (also building control or building regulations) is a set of rules that specify the standards for constructed objects such as buildings and nonbuilding structures.

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Burger Chef

Burger Chef was an American fast-food restaurant chain.

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Burger King

Burger King (BK) is an American global chain of hamburger fast food restaurants.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Charles Scribner's Sons

Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner's or Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing American authors including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Stephen King, Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Wolfe, George Santayana, John Clellon Holmes, Don DeLillo, and Edith Wharton.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Czechs

The Czechs (Češi,; singular masculine: Čech, singular feminine: Češka) or the Czech people (Český národ), are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, culture, history and Czech language.

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Des Plaines, Illinois

Des Plaines is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County.

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Disneyland

Disneyland Park, originally Disneyland, is the first of two theme parks built at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, opened on July 17, 1955.

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El Camino Memorial Park

El Camino Memorial Park cemetery is located at 5600 Carroll Canyon Road in the Sorrento Valley neighborhood of San Diego.

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Emergency medical technician

Emergency medical technician (EMT) and ambulance technician are terms used in some countries to denote a health care provider of emergency medical services.

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Eric Schlosser

Eric Matthew Schlosser (born August 17, 1959) is an American journalist and author known for his investigative journalism, such as in his books Fast Food Nation (2001), Reefer Madness (2003), and Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (2013).

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Fairfax County Public Library

The Fairfax County Public Library (FCPL) is a public library system headquartered in Suite 324 of The Fairfax County Government Center in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.

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Fast food

Fast food is a mass-produced food that is typically prepared and served quicker than traditional foods.

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Fast Food Nation

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (2001) is a book by investigative journalist Eric Schlosser that examines the local and global influence of the United States fast food industry.

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Franchising

Franchising is based on a marketing concept which can be adopted by an organisation as a strategy for business expansion.

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Free agent

In professional sports, a free agent is a player who is eligible to sign with any club or franchise; i.e., not under contract to any specific team.

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Gale (publisher)

Gale is an educational publishing company based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, in the western suburbs of Detroit.

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Graig Nettles

Graig Nettles (born August 20, 1944), nicknamed "Puff", is an American former Major League Baseball third baseman.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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Hamilton Beach Brands

Hamilton Beach Brands Holding Company is an American designer, marketer and distributor of home appliances and commercial restaurant equipment marketed primarily in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, including blenders, mixers, toasters, slow cookers, clothes irons, and air purifiers.

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Hardee's

Hardee's Food Systems Inc. is an American-based fast-food restaurant chain operated by CKE Restaurants Holdings, Inc. ("CKE") with locations primarily in the Southern and Midwestern United States.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. is one of the world's largest publishing companies and is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster.

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Harrison A. Williams

Harrison Arlington "Pete" Williams Jr. (December 10, 1919November 17, 2001) was a Democrat who represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives (1953–1957) and the United States Senate (1959–1982).

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Harry J. Sonneborn

Harry Joesph Sonneborn (June 12, 1916 – September 21, 1992) was an American businessman, best known for being the first president and chief executive of McDonald's Corporation.

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Heart failure

Heart failure (HF), often referred to as congestive heart failure (CHF), is when the heart is unable to pump sufficiently to maintain blood flow to meet the body's needs.

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History of McDonald's

This history of McDonald's is an overview of the original restaurant and of the chain.

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Houston Astros

The Houston Astros are an American professional baseball team based in Houston, Texas.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Joan Kroc

Joan Beverly Kroc (née Mansfield, previously Smith; August 27, 1928 – October 12, 2003), also known as Joni, was an American philanthropist.

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Joe Morgan

Joe Leonard Morgan (born September 19, 1943) is an American former Major League Baseball second baseman who played for the Houston Astros, Cincinnati Reds, San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, and Oakland Athletics from 1963 to 1984.

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John Lee Hancock

John Lee Hancock, Jr. (born December 15, 1956) is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer.

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Kenneth T. Jackson

Kenneth Terry Jackson (born 1939) is a professor of history and social sciences at Columbia University.

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KFC

KFC, until 1991 known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, is an American fast food restaurant chain that specializes in fried chicken.

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List of ambulance drivers during World War I

This is a list of notable people who served as ambulance drivers during the First World War.

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List of The New York Times employees

This is a list of former and current New York Times employees, reporters, and columnists.

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Mark Knopfler

Mark Freuder Knopfler, (born 12 August 1949) is a British singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer and film score composer.

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McDonald's

McDonald's is an American fast food company, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States.

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Michael Keaton

Michael John Douglas (born September 5, 1951), known professionally as Michael Keaton, is an American actor, producer, and director.

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Milkshake

A milkshake is a sweet, cold beverage that is usually made from milk, ice cream, or iced milk, and flavorings or sweeteners such as butterscotch, caramel sauce, chocolate syrup, or fruit syrup.

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Minimum wage

A minimum wage is the lowest remuneration that employers can legally pay their workers.

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New Deal

The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations enacted in the United States 1933-36, in response to the Great Depression.

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New Statesman

The New Statesman is a British political and cultural magazine published in London.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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NNDB

The Notable Names Database (NNDB) is an online database of biographical details of over 40,000 people of note.

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Nuclear proliferation

Nuclear proliferation is the spread of nuclear weapons, fissionable material, and weapons-applicable nuclear technology and information to nations not recognized as "Nuclear Weapon States" by the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT.

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Oak Park, Illinois

Oak Park is a village adjacent to the West Side of Chicago, Illinois.

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Old Greenwich, Connecticut

Old Greenwich is a neighborhood/section and census-designated place in Greenwich in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.

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People (magazine)

People is an American weekly magazine of celebrity and human-interest stories, published by Meredith Corporation.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Philanthropy

Philanthropy means the love of humanity.

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Plzeň

Plzeň, also called Pilsen in English and German, is a city in western Bohemia in the Czech Republic.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.

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Richard and Maurice McDonald

Richard and Maurice McDonald were American siblings that founded the original McDonald’s restaurant in San Bernardino, California and inventors of the ‘Speedee Service System’.

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Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974, when he resigned from office, the only U.S. president to do so.

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Ronald McDonald House Charities

Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) is an American independent nonprofit organization whose stated mission is to create, find, and support programs that directly improve the health and well-being of children.

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San Bernardino, California

San Bernardino is a city located in the Riverside–San Bernardino metropolitan area (sometimes called the "Inland Empire").

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San Diego

San Diego (Spanish for 'Saint Didacus') is a major city in California, United States.

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San Diego Padres

The San Diego Padres are an American professional baseball franchise based in San Diego, California.

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San Diego Padres Hall of Fame

The San Diego Padres are an American professional baseball team in Major League Baseball (MLB) based in San Diego, California.

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SDCCU Stadium

San Diego County Credit Union Stadium, commonly known as SDCCU Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in San Diego, California, United States.

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Sorrento Valley, San Diego

Sorrento Valley is a neighborhood of San Diego, California.

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Standardization

Standardization or standardisation is the process of implementing and developing technical standards based on the consensus of different parties that include firms, users, interest groups, standards organizations and governments Standardization can help to maximize compatibility, interoperability, safety, repeatability, or quality.

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Stroke

A stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain results in cell death.

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Temple University Press

Temple University Press is a university press founded in 1969 that is part of Temple University (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).

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The Founder

The Founder is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by John Lee Hancock and written by Robert Siegel.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Salvation Army

The Salvation Army is a Protestant Christian church and an international charitable organisation structured in a quasi-military fashion.

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The Salvation Army Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Centers

The Salvation Army Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Centers, or Kroc Centers, are a group of community centers run by the Salvation Army.

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The San Diego Union-Tribune

The San Diego Union-Tribune is an American metropolitan daily newspaper, published in San Diego, California. Its name derives from a 1992 merger between the two major daily newspapers at the time, The San Diego Union and the San Diego Evening Tribune. The name changed to U-T San Diego in 2012 but was changed again to The San Diego Union-Tribune in 2015. In 2015, it was acquired by Tribune Publishing, later renamed tronc. In February 2018 it was announced to be sold, along with the Los Angeles Times, to Patrick Soon-Shiong's investment firm Nant Capital LLC for $500 million plus $90m in pension liabilities. The sale closed on June 18, 2018.

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Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century

Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century is a compilation of the 20th century's 100 most influential people, published in Time magazine in 1999.

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Walt Disney

Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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1972 San Diego Padres season

The 1972 San Diego Padres season was the fourth season in franchise history.

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1974 San Diego Padres season

The 1974 San Diego Padres season was the sixth in franchise history.

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1984 World Series

The 1984 World Series began on October 9 and ended on October 14, 1984.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kroc

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