Raymond Albert "Ray" Kroc (October 5, 1902 – January 14, 1984)

Kroc is responsible for turning McDonald’s into the world’s dominant fast-
food chain after joining the company in 1954. Between the end of the First
World war and the early 1950s he tried his hand at a number of trades
including paper cup salesman, pianist, jazz musician, band member and
radio DJ at Oak Park radio station WGES.

In 1955, Ray Kroc opened the first McDonald’s in Des Plaines, IL.
and bought out the McDonald’s brothers in 1961.

Colonel Harland David Sanders (September 9, 1890 – December 16, 1980)

Colonel Sanders was a businessman and entrepreneur, best known for building
his Kentucky Fried Chicken cafe into a fast-food empire. Prior the that, he had
worked as a farmer, salesman, steamboat pilot, and railroad fireman. He sold
KFC to John Y. Brown Jr., Jack Massey, and a group of investors for $2 million
in 1964.

Robert E. "Bob" Farrell (1927 – 2015 )

Robert "Bob" Farrell, founder of Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour,
died Friday the 14th. He was born in Brooklyn in 1927 and
raised in an orphanage. He served in the Air Force in 1945.

Farrell worked multiple jobs in the food service industry, where
he moved up the ladder as a salesman for Libby Foods, the
once-competitor of Heinz Foods. He opened the first store in
Portland, Ore. in 1963.

Farrell lived in Vancouver, Washington and is survived by his 
wife, Mona, his three daughters and eight grandchildren.

Recalling the joy he found in Brooklyn ice cream parlours and with the help of his friend Ken McCarthy, he opened the first store in Portland, Ore. in 1963, soon after appearing in the Guinness Book of World Records for building the largest ice cream sundae.

He opened six stores within the next five years and by 1973, the chain had 55 stores, which Farrell sold to the Marriott Corporation.

Farrell remained the spokesperson for the corporation until 2001, when two Orange County entrepreneurs, Michael Fleming and Paul Kramer, decided to give the Farrell’s concept another spin. Fleming oversees eight Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlours locations, two in Orange County.

The fast-food restaurant Jack in the Box was founded in 1951 by Robert
O. Peterson in San Diego,California, where it is still headquartered today.

In total, the chain has 2,200 locations, primarily serving the West Coast
of the U.S.

(1916–1994)