Thursday - Friday, March 27 -28, 2008 Freshman Seminar

AIM: Students will learn about the Salesman / Entrepreneur who is credited with growing McDonald's restaurants into a multi-billion dollar business.

DO NOW: How often do you eat at McDonald's? What is your favorite item on the menu? How much do you or does your parent spend on a typical visit to McDonald's? Do you know anyone who's worked in a McDonald's restaurant? What does that person do now?
Answer in complete sentences. Include the questions, by rephrasing them in your answer.

LP: Today we will view part of the Ray Kroc "the MacMillionaire" film about how he took a business and turned it into an empire.

Students will answer the following questions:

1. When Ray Kroc was a child his father took him to a Phrenologist, a person who can tell information about a person by feeling the bumps on the person's head. What did this "expert" tell Ray's father about his son's future?

2. What was the passion of Ray Kroc as a child and as an adult? Every chance he got he tried to do what?

3. Did Ray Kroc like school? Did he finish high school? If not, what did he do as a teenager when he should have been in high school?

4. What did Ray Kroc sell for at least 16 years, which brought him in contact with the McDonald brothers and their business, which used lots of multimixers?

5. What were the entrepreneur characteristics we have spoken about and examined that Ray Kroc was said to possess? For example, we know he was ambitious, what else? List at least 3 -5 additional characteristics as mentioned in the movie.



We will have additional questions tomorrow. Please answer these questions while you are watching the movie. There is no talking while the movie is being shown.

Homework: Look up "Franchise" online, and define it (you can go to dictionary.com) List as many franchises as you can think of or find online, and what they sell or do, and then bring the assignment to class on time tomorrow.