bethany rosie dunn you work here now before making millions some of the richest most
successful people started at the bottom so let's look at 15 celebrities who used to work
in fast food and action chris pratt i hope that's cool whether you know him as goofy andy guyer
or as star-lord there's no denying that chris pratt's career has grown exponentially in the last
few years but before he was training raptors and saving the world the actor was actually working
at bubba gump shrimp co in hawaii and living out of his van it was actually during his time at this
not so fast food restaurant that he waited on actress ray don chong who ended up giving him
his first movie gig in the horror comedy short cursed part 3 in the 2000s in an instagram post
pratt reminisced about his time as a server every time i go back i'm reminded of the thousands of
shrimp i ate off of people's plates on the way back to the kitchen he concluded by saying a ways
to tip your server and well always leave some shrimp on your plate i think your dad must have
added wrong he only tipped like four percent yeah rachel mcadams could you give us some
privacy for like one second prior to becoming an on-screen icon for her countless movie roles
rachel mcadams was a regular slightly clumsy mcdonald's employee as a teenager working to pay
the bills while directing cedar kids her sister was a manager at the omnipresent chain so she
was hired and worked there for three summers in a row but that's not the craziest part at least
not according to rachel apparently she wasn't exactly the employee of the month type of worker
and even to this day she wonders why they even kept her around for so long not only would she
spend her time constantly washing her hands but she wasn't the fastest either she reveals to be
something of a daydreamer and a dawdler slow and would even be organizing the sweet and
sour packets and the customers take out bag while the line snaked out the door oh and she
also broke the orange juice machine one day it's okay rachel at least you found another job yeah
horrible jeff bezos jeff bezos the founder and ceo of amazon everyone's favorite self-made
billionaire jeff bezos didn't become who he is today by accident he really put his back into
it and worked his way up to the top and created a little company you might have heard about amazon
but before he could pave the way and inspire so many future entrepreneurs bezos got himself
a summer job at 16 years old at another pretty big company mcdonald's that's right jeff bezos
was a cook at the golden arches and it greatly helped him in his present career frying up burgers
allowed him to study the company's automation improvements and learn all about customer service
which he realized wasn't as easy as it seemed the advice he has for the young people of today is to
always keep your eyes open for lessons to learn at any gig even if it's just flipping burgers you
can learn responsibility in any job if you take it seriously hello welcome to mcdonald's may i take
your order please madonna so what's your story did you know that the queen of pop hasn't always been
so vogue back when she was an inspiring struggling singer and dancer trying to get her big break in
new york city madonna worked many regular jobs in hopes of finding a career in entertainment among
those jobs was a very brief and not so fulfilling gig at a dunkin donuts in times square the only
problem is she didn't even last a full day at the store and was canned after her first shift
why let's just say madonna didn't take the job very seriously so her manager relieved her of her
duties for playing with the jelly squirter machine and squirting the filling all over a customer
donuts and customer service obviously weren't her strong suit but thankfully she found her
right fit and became a musical icon instead i mean you're real right super real pharrell
here's a fun fact about mcdonald's the catchy i'm loving it jingle was written by justin timberlake
and co-written by pharrell williams now here's a fun fact about pharrell he actually used to
work for the chain but not as a songwriter as a part-time worker only his cooking days
weren't as successful as his music career and he was fired from three different mcdonald's
ouch pharrell revealed on an episode of mtv when i was 17 that he wasn't the most energetic
employee and that he was very very lazy at a certain point they just realized that i
was no help i was only good at eating the chicken nuggets he would also often start
dancing and singing to the music and use the mop as his own personal mic and belt out tunes
grandpa would you like anything else she looked at me and went
who said you needed to wait tables or work the grill to qualify as a bonafide fast food employee
when brad pitt was a struggling actor he got a job at el pollo loco only he wasn't hired to cook or
serve the chicken no he was the chicken that's right the chain's mascot to pay the bills he
used to dress up as a chicken and stand outside of the restaurant to entice people to come in
even though he said he doesn't even remember how much he got paid for the job and that he
got flipped off a lot he has no shame whatsoever about his past employment as he would put it
van's gotta eat all right your destiny is to work at a fast food drink next to a strip club
yes barack obama i mean this is america everybody has equal opportunity to make it here
leading a country is no easy task and barack obama needed to start somewhere before becoming
president and long before he became a leader of the usa young obama had a very enlightening job
scooping ice cream at baskin robbins why was it enlightening well because he learned a lot
of valuable lessons life tips and a work ethic he still carries with him to this day responsibility
hard work and balancing family friends and work were all things his first job taught him since he
gained so much from his experience back in 2016 obama launched a summer opportunities project
that would help teenagers without resources land a first job helping to send them down the right path
finding a first job can be quite arduous and even though serving ice cream isn't exactly the
most glamorous job he still wanted others to have the chance to learn everything he has i screamed
no matter what you ordered james franco i want my money back right now of course um you know
what here take this on us as we can see by this list mcdonald's has employed a lot of celebrities
over the years and actor james franco was one of them since he needed to support himself while he
studied acting a job at the local fast food chain was everything he could wish for he was even asked
if he was too good to work at mcdonald's but as he so nicely put it i was following my acting
dream despite all the pressure not to i was definitely not too good to work at mcdonald's
one day he just went to the nearest restaurant and got offered a job the very same day franco took
the opportunity to practice his acting scenes and would put on fake accents when serving customers
in an article he wrote for the washington post who said mcdonald's was there for me
when no one else was and he still visits the chain every once in a while how's the pie
so good nicki minaj somebody's being negative i'm gonna go just because you're not cut out for a
certain line of work it doesn't mean that you're not going to be successful in your life just look
at nicki minaj she became a famous lucrative rapper even though her days as a waitress
were less than memorable before she became the superstar she is today nikki worked at not one
not two but three red lobster locations and she was fired from every single one of them
she revealed the reason why she was let go from one on the tonight show and it's simply epic
a couple failed to tip and took her pen so she followed them to their car banged on their window
flipped them off and demanded that they give back her pen understandably her manager fired her on
the spot but it's not like her experience didn't teach her anything she learned some skills and
realized that this wasn't her destined career yeah nothing happened but i'm not gonna spend
every day explaining myself to you bobby flay hey everybody it's bobby flay fittingly enough
bobby flay has been in the culinary business for way longer than his time on our screen indeed the
american celebrity chef has been in the restaurant biz ever since he was in the sixth grade when he
got his first job delivering pizza he would also occasionally open the cans of tomatoes and grate
the mozzarella at the age of 17 it was time to change his career path after he dropped out of
high school so he got a job at baskin-robbins hmm just like obama in his book flay recalls his
experience at the ice cream parlor and how he used to get a little crazy with the sundae toppings
which is more than relatable he then got a job at joe allen's went to the french culinary institute
opened his own restaurant and the rest is history four minutes late pizza's free amy adams
i'm angry as one of the world's highest paid actresses amy adams definitely has a lot of
experience in the movie business however she also has quite a bit of experience
in the waitressing world as she worked for hooters as soon as she finished high school
she first started as a hostess but was quickly moved to waiting tables
hooters a restaurant where the uniform isn't the most um comfortable was a way for adams to
earn money for a car and make ends meet but due to instances of inappropriate behavior from customers
she didn't stay there very long let's just say that a lot of people believe
that touching a waitress's behind was included in the service the actress has now traded the
trademark hooters uniform and uncomfortable situations for dazzling gowns and an engaging
career yes i am jay leno welcome to mcdonald's did i take your order is gabriel
it's for you jay leno spent over two decades on our tv screens as the host of the tonight show
but before he got to the top he started out with a minimum wage job at a mcdonald's for two years
as a teenager leno worked at a mcd's in andover massachusetts not only to earn some extra pocket
money but also to acquire some relevant experience and lessons about business his job consisted of
preparing the chain's famous fries and while doing so he was taught how you can never go too far
to ensure you're producing a great product come on man you know what we're talking about pink who are
those guys wendy's breakfast morty it's wendy's what most celebrities on this list have worked
at one or two fast food joints before they made it big but pink has a little bit more experience
indeed our favorite rocker lady worked at three different restaurants mcdonald's pizza hut and
wendy's the latter only lasting about an hour and a half because she refused to be on french
fry duty but still as for mcdonald's she was on drive through duty and said she had a janet
jackson microphone but while it was important for her family that she made her own money
she didn't get close to being employee of the month at any of those jobs she would smoke cigs
at the drive-thru window give her friends a lot of free fries and sit and watch the tiles when
she was assigned to clean the bathroom i hope you accept my apology and come back to work for me
gwen stefani is that weird i mean how is that even possible before she was the accomplished
singer and songwriter she is today gwen stefani was serving up frozen treats at dairy queen
a part-time job while in high school she says she made her very first dollar there with which she
purchased her first album a sean cassidy record however the voice host got way more than paychecks
during her time there she also found her bandmates in the late 80s stefani was working at a dq
in her hometown of orange california with john spence and her brother eric all sharing a passion
for music one thing led to another and the trio decided to form a band spence's signature phrase
no doubt became the band's name and while the band isn't what it used to be it's still what
propelled gwen's career forward believe it or not we actually do do that queen latifah
the accomplished hip-hop pioneer rapper and actress queen latifah once worked for a very
popular chain also reminiscent of royalty burger king at only 15 years old she decided to get a
job at a local bk in new jersey to earn her own money only she didn't get a chance to earn a fast
food crown since she was canned after she lost her temper according to digital spy latifa would clean
the bathrooms as if they were her own meaning they were always spotless and it demanded a lot of time
one night after working all night to make them immaculate she got into a heated argument with
her manager and lost it telling him you can't talk to me that way after i just cleaned that bathroom
after she became famous she returned to burger king to give her former manager a piece of her
mind only he had already quit i uh i don't like my job and uh i don't think i'm gonna go anymore
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