wow almost professional there you go
yeah i know it's like riding a bike
really
i never really forget long before they
were in the public eye
these stars were serving the public
burgers and fries
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we're
counting down our picks for the top 10
celebrities who worked at fast food
restaurants
i don't know welcome to burger king i
don't know i was just thinking something
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what you need a burger for this list
we're looking at celebrities and other
famous individuals who worked in the
fast food industry
or family restaurant chains at one point
or another you know my
inside knowledge of mcdonald's too
two-part kind of story number 10
pink mcdonald's
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in the days before she was getting the
party started and selling millions of
albums worldwide
pink was just another teenager who
needed a part-time job
that need manifested itself as a
position at mcdonald's
while the singer may have made a few
dollars during her time there it isn't
exactly something she looks back on
fondly
as she's referred to her period as a
mcdonald's employee as
a nightmare one that she never wants to
revisit
luckily for her she didn't have to spend
much time as a burger flipper before
making the transition to pop superstar
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number nine chris pratt the bubba gump
shrimp company
did you know that the food you eat
becomes energy yeah
boom that's spaghetti nachos
it's a cookie while many of the celebs
on this list achieved fame in spite of
their fast food origins
it would appear chris pratt owes a debt
of gratitude to his
at 19 years of age he was working as a
waiter for the bubba gump shrimp company
when rae don chong an actress discovered
him
believing him to be a perfect fit for
her upcoming directorial debut
wow would that be you in the van that's
me and that's that's literally the
script
that got me out of maui it wasn't long
before pratt was scoring roles on tv
shows like everwood and parks and
recreation
eventually translating that success into
a number of major film roles
moral of the story go wait tables at the
bubba gump shrimp company and you just
might be the next hollywood heartthrob
ooh child things will get brighter
and bring it down hard
number eight james franco mcdonald's
probably go on the internet and find out
that i did work at mcdonald's when i was
18. of all the celebrities on this list
franco appears to have enjoyed his time
working in the fast food industry
the most he first began working at
mcdonald's as a way of supporting
himself while learning to act
something his parents were seemingly
staunchly opposed to
what do you want me to do you want me to
drop out i can bring us home a big
whopping 250 an hour
you know i wouldn't turn that down
during his time working alongside ronald
mcdonald
franco would try out different accents
on the people around him honing his
skills
one customer at a time in 2015
he wrote an editorial for the washington
post detailing his exploits working the
late night drive-through position
and claims quote when i needed
mcdonald's mcdonald's was there for me
number 7. gwen stefani dairy queen
many years ago before she was topping
the charts as the lead singer of the ska
punk band no doubt
going solo or serving as a judge on the
voice gwen stefani was a teenager who
simply needed a little spending money
to solve this dilemma she got a job
serving ice cream at dairy queen
in fact the blonde bombshell has stated
that she made her very first dollar
working for the fast food chain
had she only stuck with it she could
have become perhaps one of the greatest
ice cream servers of all time
but alas it was not to be
number six rachel mcadams mcdonald's
i am free you don't seem like it
well i am years before she was winning
hearts in the notebook or
outwitting the world's greatest
detective in sherlock holmes mcadams was
a small-town canadian girl with a dream
a dream to work at mcdonald's that is
over the course of three summers
the future actress flipped burgers swept
floors and handed out
extra packets of mayo with the best of
them it's always comforting to know that
even the most beautiful and talented
people in the world had to start
somewhere
for mcadams that somewhere was
underneath the golden arches
i'm only eating foods with less than 30
calories from fat number five
eva longoria wendy's you did oh yeah
do you make it mean frosty i make a good
frosty i was manager by the time i was
wow i'm 18. good for you from her time
on the young and the restless to her
star-making role on the hit
abc series desperate housewives actress
eva longoria has made her mark on
television
however before becoming the household
name she is today
she was just a teenage mexican-american
girl with a more
immediate ambition to make money to pay
for her quinceanera
a ceremony that celebrates the
transition from childhood to adulthood
when you turn
15. oh no need i'm up for anything
although i did just get a manicure so
nothing that might chip and nail
longoria's parents couldn't afford to
pay for it
so she got a job at a local wendy's
restaurant longoria not only managed to
pay for her quinceanera all on her own
but wound up working there for three
years number four
eminem gilbert's lodge
after the unsuccessful release of his
first album in 1996
eminem was in need of employment he
found it by working as cook and
dishwasher at gilbert's lodge
a family restaurant located in a detroit
suburb
m was no slouch and reportedly worked 60
hours a week for months after the birth
of his daughter haley
unfortunately for the aspiring rapper he
was fired from the restaurant a few days
before christmas
the firing marked a low point in
eminem's life and he coped by heavily
abusing drugs and alcohol
thankfully for him and fans the world
over he recovered
and dropped the groundbreaking slim
shady lp in 1999.
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number three brad pitt el pollo loco and
there's these other files that are just
like
numbers arrayed numbers and dates and
numbers and numbers and dates and
numbers brad pitt is one of hollywood's
most iconic actors
however before all the fortune and fame
he was just another
out of work actor trying to pay the rent
perhaps that's why he found himself
dressed in a chicken costume
and dancing up and down the street
trying to entice potential customers to
eat at el pollo loco in the mid-80s
nowadays you'd be hard-pressed to
imagine pitt dressed in anything so
unfashionable
but once upon a time you could
reportedly find him flapping his wings
and squawking at passing cars
in downtown l.a be funny but don't make
him laugh
he's got to like you and then forget you
the moment you've left his side
number two madonna dunkin donuts
even pop queens have to start somewhere
for madonna
that somewhere was working the cash
register at dunkin donuts
however the soon-to-be sex symbol
managed to spray
jelly onto an unsuspecting customer this
allegedly prompted her boss to fire her
after only one day
on the job no doubt a blessing in
disguise
madonna would soon be pumping out hit
songs and touring the world as one of
the hottest singers on the planet
we'd like to imagine that years later
she went back to her old fast food gig
and bought up all the jelly donuts
before we unveil our number one pick
here are some honorable mentions
i had sex with him for about a year and
a half
i liked having sex with him
he wasn't afraid of experimenting
i like men like that men who give me
pleasure
he gave me a lot of pleasure well i
didn't get the
good job at the register you know
where you could go home with a couple
extra bucks
that's good
i'm just kidding i would i made burgers
i flipped burgers
i made fries i made drinks because this
is when they still had the drink station
on the inside
well i was like 18 so everybody has the
body at 18.
but uh no it was a great job out of high
school and i was a hostess at first and
then i
waited tables for a while and they were
great it was a great way to earn money
for a car
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number one barack obama baskin robbins
i cannot stand it when people reduce
complex
ideas to some simplistic catchphrase
we can't accept that answer yes we can
yup
even the former president of the united
states of america got his start in the
fast food industry
baskin robbins was obama's first job one
that he got while living in honolulu
hawaii
last time we checked hawaii is pretty
hot which means the line at obama's ice
cream parlor was probably around the
block more often than not
who knows maybe this past potus is the
one who handed you that double fudge
sundae back in the mid 70s
and the connection between baskin
robbins and barack obama doesn't end
there it was also the place he took the
future first lady on their first date
it's pretty good you want some
sure a plaque commemorating the event
can be found outside the chicago
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