About $2.00 an hour in 1975, shortly after they introduced the Quarter Pounder for me. The paper hat and barber shirt days.
Taught me to work hard, deal with jerk managers, and realize I didn’t want to do this forever.
Yep. I still remember, "You got time to lean, you got time to clean!"
To this day, I know enough that if I'm not busy, at least look like I'm busy.
McD's taught a lot of kids the fundamentals; show up on time, work as a team, be dependable, and every Thursday you'll get a paycheck.
We lost something when we took these jobs away from American teens and gave them to foreign adults.