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Brad Carroll had no ambitions to one day own a McDonald’s when he started as a 14-year-old crew member at a Maccas in his home town of Wagga Wagga. “I think my aspiration back then was to buy a $40 Mambo T-shirt,” he said, with a laugh. Now the dad-of-three and proud Canberran is the owner of four McDonald’s in the national capital – at Manuka, Weston, Westfield Woden and, the newest, in the Monglo Valley which opened last year. From that teenaged kid with a part-time job, Mr Carroll eventually rose to become general manager of four stores…