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"That's one thing I regret. Ray [Kroc] offered to let me into the business when they were building up their corporate offices in Oak Brook [Illinois] but I had a sports scholarship for college. None of us had any idea what McDonald's would become."
Daniel Zakos admitted that as a ...
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