Meet The Fast Food Workers Who Became Billionaires

“Inthe summer of 1980, a lanky, 16-year-old Jeff Bezos walked into a McDonald’s restaurant in Miami, filled out an application and landed his first ever job. ‘My dad had worked at McDonald’s when he was young, too, so in some ways it felt like a rite of passage,’ says Bezos. Part of the kitchen crew, he cracked 300 eggs a day, flipped burgers and scrubbed bathrooms. When a five-gallon ketchup dispenser spilled all over the kitchen floor, it was his job to clean it up. ‘I was the low man on the totem pole,’ he recalls. A far cry from throwing a $20 million wedding in Venice or flying into space, the experience still taught him valuable lessons. ‘No job is beneath you,’ says Bezos, 61, adding that people should ‘build the habit early and not wait for an “important” job before working hard.’”