6175 Alameda
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8320 Dyer Street
This store held its Grand Opening in conjunction with the Grand Opening of the 6315 N. Mesa store December 2-4, 1965.
--R.T.
9571 Dyer Street
I was a night shift manager at the Dyer Street store, 1968-70. As I recall, there were actually 2 of them on Dyer Street. I worked at the one fartherest north. I think the address was 1071, Dyer street. Then again, 1071 may have been the store number. Not sure if that is right at all. We had a crew that would make todays fast food crews hang their head in shame, if they had any understanding and the kind of training we had.
David Saursoff (sp?) German kid. If that broiler could crank out 2000 hamburgers in an hour, David could put every one of them together. His hands moved so fast you couldn't follow them with your eyes.
Don Dean (African American, also promoted to management) could work front or back line with the best of them. He had an incredible sense of humor
Terry (last name slips my mind) Phillipino decent, I believe. She could take any order, any size for any number of people, fill it expertly and in a hurry and never hit anything but "one item cash" on the register. She did the math in her head. (today, people look at what the register says they owe you and hand it to you without counting it)
There were others, too. We had a crew that won a franchise competition for store cleanliness and another one for food quality and service 18 consecutive times. There were 18 stores in the franchise chain including the one in Las Cruces, NM.
The General Managers name was Reg Adelung (I named my first dog "Reggie" and his wife also managed after him. I believe her name was Doris. Reg told me that the secret of putting together a great crew was to be willing to fire the bad help, even if that meant the entire crew, which he did when he made me the night manager after I had been there only 2 weeks. He was right. We ended up with a crew that I would stack up against any restaurant crew, any where, any time. I guess he didn't know that 40 years later, it would be illegal not to hire bad help and a liability that can kill your business to fire them. These days, they say "the squeaky wheel gets the most grease." I remember when we just replaced the squeaky wheel, and it made us the best there was, anywhere.
Those were the good old days :o)
Posted by: Joseoh R. Kidd (Randy Kidd) | July 15, 2007 at 12:42 PM
Ah Hah!!!!!!!!
Terry's last name was Jones.
Posted by: Joe Kidd | July 15, 2007 at 01:00 PM
1235 McRae
This store held its Grand Opening May 10 & 11, 1969. It closed by September of 1977 and the location became a Chico's Tacos.
--R.T.
2112 N. Mesa
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6315 N. Mesa
This store held its Grand Opening in conjunction with the Grand Opening of the 8320 Dyer Street store December 2-4, 1965.
--R.T.
3711 Montana Avenue
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6100 Montana Avenue
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6621 Montana Avenue
This store opened November 31, 1968. It (along with other El Paso area Burger Chefs) was owned by Bill Bates and Ray Smith.
--R.T.
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