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    • 50 years ago I worked at Wendy's and it was the first in our area.  Only burgers, fries, chili and Frosty.  No salads, onion rings, chicken or stuff you see at other fast food places.  It was also the first burger place to have a drive through window, believe it or not.  Our store was the busiest in the nation the first week we opened.  We broke the record for opening day sales and broke the record the first Friday and Saturday for most sales, the previous record from a Wendy's in New York City. I can testify the burgers were never frozen because each morning we would get fresh ground beef in 25 pound bags and I would dump it into a Holly-matic machine that stamped out the patties one at a time, fresh.  It wasn't automatic in the fact that I had to keep feeding the ground beef down the hopper shute and when 15 patties stacked up I'd take them and put them in a big pan that would hold 16 stacks of patties.  Those pans would go in a space next to the grills. Lettice, onion and tomatoes also came in fresh each morning and one person would slice the tomatoes one at a time on a hand slicer.  Another person would peal off the lettuce leaves by hand and another would core and slice the onions one at a time in a slicer with a hand crank.  Pickles came pre sliced in 5 gallon buckets.  Burgers were tossed fresh on the grill and flipped by hand until they were done, juicy and not dry.  If they got too dry they would be used to make the chili.  The person taking your order at the register would call out exactly what you wanted on your burger and a sandwich maker would make it right then and there.  By the time you finished paying, your order would be waiting at the end of the counter.  The secret is not one person did your order.  Several people worked on it.  One cooked the burgers, one made the sandwich while another was getting your fries and someone up front would get the drinks or Frosty. I can attest that, at least 50 years ago, Wendy's were the best burgers with all ingredients fresh each morning.  They cost more than your Whopper or Big Mac, but tasted so much better.
    • That was my issue!  Seamstresses are far and few between anymore.  And when I found one the language barrier was terrible and the jod finished was not as desired.
    • The other day, or the other decade?
    • This is funny. A typo, but probably still true.
    • Ok. Thanks for that. I’m size xl. I’ll look online at Tesco then. 
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