McDonald’s swamped on BWE’s McTeachers Night

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

The Sun­bury McDonald’s is typ­i­cally busy, but cus­tomers can usu­ally find a park­ing space; and they don’t have to wait too long in line to place and order, get their food, sit down and eat. But that was not the case last Thurs­day evening. The park­ing lot was full, cus­tomers were park­ing on Tip­pitt Court and in the Noah’s Ark Day­care park­ing lot, and there was a line of cus­tomers out the door and along the side of the building.

No, McDonald’s wasn’t giv­ing away free food; it was busi­ness as usual. McDonald’s was serv­ing Big Macs, Quar­ter Pounders, fries, soft drinks, cof­fee – the entire menu at reg­u­lar prices. But there was one tiny twist that drew cus­tomers in last Thurs­day evening. It was Big Wal­nut Ele­men­tary School’s McTeacher Night, and cus­tomers were on hand not only to sup­port the PTO fundraiser, but also to hear a favorite teacher say: “Would you like fries with that?”

As an added attrac­tion, and cer­tainly a draw for chil­dren and par­ents alike, was a visit from the one and only Ronald McDon­ald. Ronald worked the room like the pro­fes­sional clown that he is, stop­ping for a mul­ti­tude of pho­tographs with stu­dents, teach­ers, par­ents, and even a few school administrators.

“Teach­ers and par­ents are what makes McTeacher’s Night a big suc­cess,” said McDonald’s Vicky Lauer. “Big Wal­nut Ele­men­tary PTO Pres­i­dent Jeremy Part­low played a big part in get­ting the school staff excited about McTeacher’s Night, and the teach­ers get stu­dents excited and we have a suc­cess­ful event.”

Lauer said last Thursday’s event was the sec­ond BWE McTeacher’s Night at Sun­bury McDonald’s and both were suc­cess­ful. McDonald’s donated 15 per­cent of cash reg­is­ter receipts to the BWE PTO, and with money placed in teacher’s tip jars the evening net­ted over $1,000 for the PTO to use to enhance stu­dent ser­vices that fall out­side nor­mal cur­ricu­lum funding.

“We have found out that Big Wal­nut area par­ents sup­port their schools 100 per­cent,” Lauer said. “And McDonald’s owner and oper­a­tor Rod Boester has made a com­mit­ment to the schools to help in their fundrais­ing events.”

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