The thought of closing his McDonald’s restaurant for needed renovations worried owner Tony Philiou.
There was, of course, the loss of three months of revenue to consider. More troubling, though, was the absence of income for his 85 employees.
Then one night, Philiou woke at 2:30 a.m. with a sudden realization.
“I’ve got to pay everybody through the process!” he said, sitting up in bed.
Philiou knew what it was like to count on a paycheck working in fast food. He’d started at the store 60 years earlier slicing cheese for 90 cents an hour.
Owner Tony Philiou outside his Mayfield Heights, Ohio, Mcdonald’s on Aug. 8, 2022. (Roger Mastroianni/The Epoch Times)
“I’ve been in their shoes,” the 90-year-old owner of the eatery in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, told The Epoch Times….