groen in A Sentence

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    As Groen would later recall:“I was struggling.

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    Groen 's restaurant.

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    For more on errors that can appear in administrative records, see Groen(2012).

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    For more on errors that can appear in administrative records, see Groen(2012).

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    You see, Groen's restaurant was located in an area that was 87% Catholic.

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    So, in 1961 Groen tried to pitch the idea to Ray Kroc, who immediately shot him down.

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    With this information in hand, Groen went back to his restaurant and began workshopping a new idea for a fish-based sandwich.

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    With ample evidence that there was considerable demand for fish-based sandwiches, Kroc gave Groen permission to begin selling the Filet-O-Fish permanently.

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    No stranger to troubles, or hard work, Groen had been kicked out of his home by his father as a teenager.

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    First, Groen had to figure out how to make the sandwich cheaper since corporate wanted to sell it for 25 cents(about $1.98 today).

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    When Good Friday of that year rolled around, as Groen predicted, his Filet-O-Fish was a huge hit, selling 350 sandwiches in his franchise location that day.

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    In 1960, at a small McDonald's restaurant in Monfort Heights, Ohio, the owner of the franchise, a man called Lou Groen, was struggling to keep his restaurant open.

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    What Groen found was that, in addition to standard items like hamburgers and the like, they also sold fish, which as noted can be eaten in lieu of other meats by Catholics on Fridays.

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    What confused Groen was that other restaurants in the area, like Big Boys locations, which offered more or less the same fare as he did, seemed to be doing fine, both in general and on Fridays.

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    With his restaurant about to go under and his ability to provide for his children at stake, Groen persisted, eventually convincing Kroc to let him trial the fish burger for a single day, but Kroc had a few stipulations.

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    Homeless during the Great Depression, with no real skills to speak of, and occasionally having to steal food to survive, Groen did eventually find work, and then continued to better his situation by simply working harder than everyone else around him.

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