Old-Fashioned Hamburgers

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When I was down by 29th and Willamette the other day, shopping at the Market of Choice, I discovered that the Wendy's I worked at some twenty years ago was closed, dark and empty. Unlike some stories I've heard of other places, working there didn't turn me off the food forever; that I haven't been back there in some years (I couldn't tell you exactly how many) was just a matter of chance and habit. It wasn't a great job, but it was a job, it was there when I needed one, and I learned some stuff from it and got my share of cheap/free food.

So here's to my time flipping burgers - to my managers (Eric, Frank, Kathy, Leila, and Mike), and to all the co-workers that came and went. Here's to the singles with cheese, the fries and the Frosties, and the bane of my existence, the salad bar.

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This past fall, they closed the Wendy's near the Bangor Mall (which I'm pretty sure was the first one I ever ate at) and almost instantaneously tore it down, after which a crew swooped in and started building something else on the lot. The other day I was down there to pick up something at the Best Buy nearby and saw that the new project was far enough along that it's now become possible to tell what they're building in its place:

A Wendy's.

I guess it's sort of a fast food expression of the circle of life.

(They did a similar thing to the McDonald's here in West Podunk a couple summers ago. Ripped it down, built a brand-new, much smaller one. I guess it finally occurred to someone that this shitkicker town doesn't really require a 120-seat McDonald's. :)