Teresa

I forgot about baking the phone!  What about throwing
the left over shakes, sundaes, and pies off the four
story building!

Teresa

You mean a Mc Liiiiiib!  Wow, this makes me feel old.
I remember passing through Columbia with my kids when
they were younger and taking them to the McDonalds
where John and I worked.   I guess I won't be taking
my grandkids there!  I remember flashing the bin
numbers at customers with Molly and others based on
the 1-10 looks department.    I remember going into
the frig to put stuff away, or to get stuff to fill
stations and pouring the whip cream into my mouth each
time, as well as making a double filet sandwich with 6
pieces of cheese for break.   Fun times, the end of an
era.  I wonder how many people met and married from
there?
Thanks Sue,
Teresa

Wilfong

My first day I ran fries and had the whole area completely grease covered because I never let them drain, I was so overwhelmed.

Jan came over and asked how it got so greasy and I said, "I don't know".

Luckily, Jan liked the way I put lettuce on the Big Macs or I'd have been toast.

Remember.....

Scott touching his fingers to the grill towl after pulling each quarter pounder?

Dave Watson telling Bramstedt to give him a sear lay on quarters during state music then seeing 30 quarters go straight into the trash!

Friday night closes, then the trip to Harpo's. (The only time in my career I tried to get on Friday nights)

Our guys only trip to the Kentucky Derby in the RV!

Maxi's!

Go change the trash on Lowry.

Spades after close.

The Risk weekend at Jim's in KC after he graduated.

Baking Pat's phone in her oven....accidently.

Joe K

A lot of memories in regards to Campus McDonalds. My most vivid memories are when we were trying to get the thing open. The safe flying down the ramp while being delivered, hitting the just unpacked dress table, which flew up and put a hole in the ceiling. Trying to get that stupid Italian tile in the lobby clean so that we could open. The corporate field consultant leaving on a Friday, saying he would be back Sunday night, but there would be no way in hell we would have the store clean enough to open. Him having to eat his words because he had no idea how good our team was. Getting a call from the fire dept. after closing one night telling me the store was on fire, racing there to find out it was the bug fogger causing the "smoke".

I can honestly say that I have never had so much fun while be paid, and have never worked with such a quality group of people. Everyone who worked there was intelligent, motivated and had a great work ethic. The only trick was to get some of the motivation focused on McDonald's, and the managers were great at accomplishing that.

I miss the spades tournaments, especially with my partner, The GREATTT Scott, going mellow with the king and jack of spades. Always exciting.

Since leaving McDonald's, I have worked for America West Airlines, managing the Kansas City reservations center until it closed, and since then with ADT Security Services at their customer monitoring center here in Kansas City. We have about 900 employees and monitor security systems from coast to coast.

My wife, Donna, is an officer with Citibank, working in the collections department right across the interstate from where I work.

I have two daughters, Katie and Kelsey. Katie is a senior at MU, and will receive her degree in elementary education. She is currently interviewing for teaching positions in Colorado, where she has spent the last three summers working for either Young Life or a dude ranch.

Kelsey is a freshman at MU, also majoring in education, and plans on teaching math in high school. She is also involved in Young Life. She made noises about going to KU, even going so far as applying there. After I took away her car for a week, she decided maybe KU was a bad idea.

Maybe we could plan something for a weekend in June in Columbia, sort of like holding a wake, the commemorate the closing.

I will always remember the friends I made at Campus McDonalds.

Joe K

Karen

Hello everyone, it's me Karen "If you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean" Hanaway (Miller). I was surprised to hear so many people weigh in on the closing of the Campus McDonalds. I can't believe it; I am sure the students will be furious. I too have very wonderful memories of my time there. You were all my family away from home. One of the saddest times I had was when I was transferred to the Stadium store. Things were VERY different there! I still play Spades with family and friends, and I like to go "mellow", although they all say Nil. What do they know? I can even remember some team going double blind mellow. YIKES!

As many of you know I hired my then future husband at the Stadium store. We have now been married over 21 years, and we still enjoy a french fry together. Yum! He is an F-15 pilot in the Air Force, and we have lived in 8 states. We have been in Virginia for the last 3 three years, and won't be leaving until at least my youngest son's graduation. He is a junior. My eldest son is a freshman at UMKC, in the 6 year combined BA Medical program. I don't know how those boys got to be so smart! I worked at McDonalds in Texas for the first 2 years of our marriage, and then took the next 15 years off. What a deal. I am currently a teacher assistant in P.E. at an elementary school. It is great to work with the kids.

That's it for me. It was great to hear from so many of you! Thanks, Sue, for letting us all know.

Karen

Wilfong

Nuclear proliferation was no match for our Risk board!

Toni

Hi! Again! I got alot of Mail Router errors on my note so I am not sure it actually made it out---someone thinks I am spamming!! I took out the subject which may not help. Anyway, I ditto everyone elses comments but added that I really liked the spades tournaments and--I will add----the late night closing crews recruits---especially Karen Miller rushing us through closing and getting pizza orders and swearing we would have soooo much fun----which we did until the wee hours of the morning. Does anyone know how hard it is to stay awake at 7:40AM during a lecture in SPANISH??!!

Many of you 'followed ' me to Shelter Insurance! Missed me, didn't ya!

take care, Toni

Jim and Mary

This is great hearing from everyone! Just sad to hear the store is closing. What great memories that we'll always have...and it is great that we've been able to stay in touch after all these years. If it wasn't spades, it was Risk. I've still got the boards with all the stories. We worked hard, studied hard (well, maybe not so hard sometimes...) and we definitely played hard.

It's funny...I've got 18 and 16 year old daughters that are working at McDonald's now. They love it. They've got a good group of friends there - similar to what we had. I just love listening to their stories about work and friends. Takes me back...

Looking forward to next years spades tournament Chris!

Jim and Mary

Chris and Dana

Everyone,

We can't say anything that someone else hasn't already said. We were so fortunate to share some great memories with lots of wonderful people. Just think of how many couples met while working at McDonalds and are now married!! We jokingly tell our boys that we always go to McDonald's to celebrate our anniversary!!

For those of you who've been able to play in the spades tournament at our house recently - sorry we couldn't host it this year, but we're planning to play again next New Year's Day!!

Chris and Danna

Jan

Hey everyone –

Wow - The Campus McDonald’s closing !! The end of an era …. It makes me feel old.

I have done a lot of things in my life, worked for a lot of different bosses and worked with thousands of different people. It is still easy for me to say the greatest group of people I ever had the privilege to work with was all of you at the Campus Store and Doug and Lyn Mehle were the most terrific people I have ever worked for. A wonderful group to work with, to have fun with, to cry with, to celebrate with, to survive with, to set records with …. No matter what happened, everyone pulled together --

I can still remember going home the day the Campus Store opened and thinking I never wanted to go back !! I don’t know how many of you were there on opening day but it was like nothing I had ever seen before. There were lines, sometimes all the way to the doors, from about 9:30 am until 3:00. It was AWFUL !! By the 2^nd day we had prepared better and survived the first week…. By the 2^nd week, it was fun again !! Amazing how resilient and versatile we were at that store –

How many of you remember:

Sitting on the truck rollers to stop the 50 lb blocks of shortening with your feet
Cleaning the grease trap
Jay chasing the thief who took the soft sculpture picture off the wall
Going to the Heidelberg for a drink after the bomb scare
The night the ansul got pulled
The gorilla singing to me in the lobby on my 30^th birthday
Closing with only 3 people during Christmas break
Our wonderful Tranti – “works in a drawer” registers
Month end counts
Dumpster diggers
The Special Olympics at Warrensburg

….. I’m sure you have a lot of memories that I forgot about (or never knew about) -- Share some of your favorite memories with all of us -- It will be fun to hear them !!

Thanks to each and every one of you for having such a positive impact on my life. People who never worked in that environment have a hard time understanding just how special you all are. When I tell people that the best “people” job I ever had was the Campus McDonalds they look at me like I’m crazy. There is not any doubt in my mind that you all are the best bunch of people I ever knew. I’m glad that so many of you have remained friends and are still supporting each other and sharing your lives. I think it would be impossible to find so many self motivated, self directed, intelligent, fun loving, caring, dedicated people with lots of common sense in any one place today….. The kids of today can’t hold a candle to you guys !!

I would love to hear from any of you if you have time to drop me a line – Happy New Year to everyone --

Jan