Burger King Pahoa

[HiloJulie]

As I posted previously, you must be new to the internet.  Copying the post directly above your reply does nothing but clutter the thread.

Also, it's just plan obnoxious.

I do that because my AOL account on my rotary dial up modem on my Compaq Computer told me once that people like to edit what they said after they say dumb stuff.

And yes, you are the epitome of obnoxious!

[AaronM]

As I posted previously, you must be new to the internet.  Copying the post directly above your reply does nothing but clutter the thread.

Also, it's just plan obnoxious.

I do that because my AOL account on my rotary dial up modem on my Compaq Computer told me once that people like to edit what they said after they say dumb stuff.

And yes, you are the epitome of obnoxious!

Uh huh.

[TomK]

I order about once a year from chain fast food restaurants but thought I'd just call both the Pahoa and Hilo Burger King places this evening to see if the rumors were true. The Hilo one was definitely open but the person I spoke to had no concept of what I was asking, so just told me how late they stayed open. Things were better with the Pahoa place and they told me they were renovating but the drive-through was open and, I think, you could still go inside with some areas closed off. They were also open when I called them. Perhaps the Hilo one is 

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A dead end job?
When I was a kid, I worked at Burger beginning in 1982. I started at the minimum wage which was $3.35 an hour. Within 6 months I was promoted to management with a $5 wage increase. 2 years later I was assistant manager with a $10 wage increase.
I left Burger King because I wanted a M-F schedule and started working at a national Bank branch.
The skills I learned along the way, at that dead end job, helped me into a career and a full pension.

Hi wecelli. I'm not sure why you quoted me and then went on to complain about someone posting about dead end jobs, I never wrote such a thing. In fact, I went out of my way to answer your OP and find out if the Pahoa or Hilo BKs were going out of business, which they aren't according to the employees I spoke to.  I don't mind being quoted, but it would be nice if you could make it clearer who you are responding to.

[terracore]

When I was a kid fast food jobs like Burger King were highly coveted. The other option was working in the berry fields, which was a 5am-5pm commitment, working under the hot sun the whole time. I applied to every FF restaurant I could but never scored an interview. You had to know somebody to get hired. A few of my friends were lucky enough to get jobs there. All of them have real careers now except for the ones who retired early. I guess most kids nowadays don't want or need jobs because it's mostly adults working these places. My first non-agricultural job was working at Safeway as the "bottle boy". The job was to count and sort beverage containers that were being returned for deposit and issuing the coupon they could convert to cash at a register. Also if somebody broke something or puked in the store it was a Bottle Boy who would be paged to go clean it. Speaking of puke, one time a customer brought in a huge bag of beer cans with vomit on them. I didn't want to count them so I got the boss. He sided with Bottle Boy and told the customer he would have to clean them first. He came back about an hour later with cans that were now dripping wet and still smelled like puke. This time the boss sided against Bottle Boy and made me count the puke cans. It was still better than working in the berry fields.

It wasn't all puke and cut fingers from sharp edges on the beverage containers, there were unpublished fringe benefits. A lot of people would put their empties back into the original boxes, which made counting them really easy because cases were easier to count than individual containers. Often times people would be drinking beers and putting empties back in the case and not realize they hadn't drank them all so we'd get an occasional case with a full beer or two in it. My union-mandated trainer taught me that in the first 5 minutes. And sure enough, my first day of work earned me a Colt 45. I still remember my mom seeing her 14 year old son drinking a Colt 45 and asking me where I got it. "I got it at work." I was expecting follow-up questions and to this day wonder why there weren't any.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

I was expecting follow-up questions

I have one.
Room temp? Or did you chill it first?

[terracore]

I was expecting follow-up questions

I have one.
Room temp? Or did you chill it first?

My gut says that a fine gentlemen's brew like Colt 45 deserves some time in refrigeration to be as cool as the connoisseur who enjoys it, but enough circles around the sun have occurred that I no longer remember what the temperature on my palate was.  I could ask my mom if she remembers seeing it in the fridge, but I couldn't imagine the follow-up questions.

[HiloJulie]

"When I was a kid fast food jobs like Burger King were highly coveted"

Same for me in the mid 1970's. I was lucky to get hired at a local Micky D's. Before Drive Thru. Before ANY Ice Cream except a Vanilla, Chocolate or Strawberry shake. When coffee was served black. When they had FRIED apple and cherry pies.

And getting hired was not just a resume - or "knowing someone."

The Mickey D's franchise owner had 5 or 6 stores in the area where I grew up. In order to get hired, you had to get a work permit from the State (Wisconsin) permission from Mom and Dad. Each teacher in high school had to write a letter more or less stating that I was a good student, did my homework and had an average grade of B or above. The school Principal also had to do the same. 

And if you dropped below a B-, you were no longer employed.

As a side note, I never was able to score any illicit beer or booze working there, but on my first day, in my clean and pressed Micky D's uniform and training side by side with the owner's daughter on the cash register, I greet my first customer with "Hi! Welcome to McDonald's! May I take your order?"

Only to be greeted with the barrel of a pistol and the words "give me all the money!"

I found out what a panic button was, and the guy got caught in the parking lot about 2 minutes later. My boss told me that I deserved a free hamburger, fries, strawberry shake and a cherry pie!

Best meal I ever had!

[terracore]

"When I was a kid fast food jobs like Burger King were highly coveted"

Same for me in the mid 1970's. I was lucky to get hired at a local Micky D's. Before Drive Thru. Before ANY Ice Cream except a Vanilla, Chocolate or Strawberry shake. When coffee was served black. When they had FRIED apple and cherry pies.

And getting hired was not just a resume - or "knowing someone."

The Mickey D's franchise owner had 5 or 6 stores in the area where I grew up. In order to get hired, you had to get a work permit from the State (Wisconsin) permission from Mom and Dad. Each teacher in high school had to write a letter more or less stating that I was a good student, did my homework and had an average grade of B or above. The school Principal also had to do the same. 

And if you dropped below a B-, you were no longer employed.

As a side note, I never was able to score any illicit beer or booze working there, but on my first day, in my clean and pressed Micky D's uniform and training side by side with the owner's daughter on the cash register, I greet my first customer with "Hi! Welcome to McDonald's! May I take your order?"

Only to be greeted with the barrel of a pistol and the words "give me all the money!"

I found out what a panic button was, and the guy got caught in the parking lot about 2 minutes later. My boss told me that I deserved a free hamburger, fries, strawberry shake and a cherry pie!

Best meal I ever had!

I can't remember proper etiquette, is this thread supposed to derail into the 2nd amendment or minimum wage laws now?  Is it acceptable to combine them?

Maybe standardized testing? So many ways to get off track!

P.S. You said mid 70's and forgot to mention the shamrock shake. Nice try.

[TomK]

I think it's the right moment to discuss building a Costco in Hilo.

[HiloJulie]

I can't remember proper etiquette, is this thread supposed to derail into the 2nd amendment or minimum wage laws now?  Is it acceptable to combine them?

Maybe standardized testing?  So many ways to get off track!

P.S.  You said mid 70's and forgot to mention the shamrock shake.  Nice try.

I did not know my life was subjected to a test on PunaWeb.

Yes, McDonalds sold the shamrock shake. It was created in 1967 by a McDonalds franchise owner in Connecticut. It was introduced nationwide in 1970. It was ONLY SOLD during the months of February and March.

I'll allow you to devolve this thread into any piece of garbage you desire. You seem well versed in doing that.

Derailment suggestion(s): serving alcohol to minors? puke? cut fingers? bottle boys?