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- John Richard Simplot (/ ˈsɪmplɒt /; January 4, 1909 – May 25, 2008) was an American entrepreneur and businessman best known as the founder of the J. R. Simplot Company, a Boise, Idaho –based agricultural supplier specializing in potato products.
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May 28, 2008 · J. R. Simplot, a billionaire who grew up in a sod-roofed log cabin and dropped out of school at 14, then marshaled luck, spunk and inventiveness to fashion an entrepreneurial career that...
J.R. Simplot, whose lifetime fascination with the potato helped change the nation’s eating habits and made him a billionaire, died Sunday. He was 99.
About our Founder. J.R. Simplot had the inherent ability to see possibilities where others saw obstacles, and the resolve to act on them—helping him turn a one-man farming operation into a global food and agribusiness enterprise.
John Richard Simplot (/ ˈ s ɪ m p l ɒ t /; January 4, 1909 – May 25, 2008) was an American entrepreneur and businessman best known as the founder of the J. R. Simplot Company, a Boise, Idaho–based agricultural supplier specializing in potato products.
- Morris Hill Cemetery, Boise, Idaho
- Eighth grade dropout
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Jan 21, 2017 · russet_potato. In 1965, J. R. Simplot met with Ray Kroc, McDonald’s founder. Kroc found it’s appealing to switch to frozen french fries to ensure uniformity and cut labor costs, since a three-month unavailable of Russet potato leads to the problem in consistency and quality of the fries.
The J.R. Simplot Company has a long-standing heritage of innovation in potatoes. In the 1940s, Simplot invented the dehydration process for potatoes, enabling them to send potato flakes to U.S. troops during World War II.
News. French Fries and Potato Specialties. Profile of J.R. Simplot, inventor of the frozen french fry. May 25, 2008. This profile of J.R. Simplot, inventor of the frozen french fry, was previously published in 1996. J.R Simplot died Sunday, May 25, 2008, at his home in Boise at the age of 99. Source. Oregon Live.
