Mr. Krog sold paper cups for Lily Tulip Cup company for seventeen years at $35.00 a week and played piano part time to support his wife and children in the early twenties. He was born in Oak Park, Chicago Ill. His father Louis Kroc left school in the eight grade to work for Western Union and steadily but slowly worked his way op the company ladder.

His nick name was Danny Daydreamer he like to just sit and think so his mother started calling him Danny Daydreamer even in to High School when he would come home all excited about a scheme he'd thought up.

He was and has always been a hard worker to him he enjoyed work as much as he did playing baseball (his favorite pastime). While working at his uncle Edmmd's Sweet's drug store soda fountain in Oak Park-he learned that you can influence people with a smile and enthusiasm and sell them a sundae even if what they had originally came in for was a cup of coffee. He went into the music store business with a couple of his friends that went bust in just a few short months. He sold coffee beans and novelties door-to-door at the beginning of WWI and was confident he could make his was in the w

In 1930 he helped Walgreen Drug Company to create a take out section to their existing soda fountain, using his Lily Cups with lids. This helped Walgreen and him boost their sale. Walgreen's signed a contract making him the sole supplier for all existing and new Walgreen's.

He met his first wife Ethel while he was working in a band at Paw-Paw lake, Michigan; (They were married in 1922).

Under his direction the McDonadls Corp has created Hamburger U., where the new operators go to learn how to run the stores, Ronald McDonald and Ronald Houses. By the end of 1976 they had 4,177 stores in the U.S. and 21 in foreign countries. With sales exceeding three billion dollars.

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