Mcdonald'S Owner. Since 1955, mcdonald's has been owned by kroc, set up by ray kroc, who went into business with the mcdonald brothers. Ray kroc was an american entrepreneur best known for expanding mcdonald’s from a local chain to the world’s most profitable restaurant franchise operation.

He was able to convince these men, who they later called in mcdonald’s lore “the 12 apostles,” and those guys came up with the cash that allowed him to buy out the. Back in 1954, a man named ray kroc discovered a small burger restaurant in california, and wrote the first page of our history.