Soon after his visit, Kroc called Dick McDonald. “Have you found a franchising agent yet?” he asked. “No, Ray, not yet,” McDonald answered. “Well then, what about me?” Kroc said. He took over the franchise end at the age of fifty-two, a diabetic who had already lost his gallbladder. Starting out all over in a new field when most men were starting to think about retirement, he was unbelievably hardworking and ambitious, and his ability to outwork everyone in his office was soon a legend.
