Pittsburgh-Area McDonald’s Employee Retires After 45 Years of Happy Meals
January 14, 2024
On Jan. 12, after 45 years at the Gibsonia McDonald’s, 84-year-old Dot Sharp served her last Egg McMuffin. It was the epitome of a happy meal.
Dotty Sims, her granddaughter, namesake and a fellow Mickey D’s employee, was her final drive-thru customer. Two decades ago, when Sims started her own career with the company, Sharp was her first patron.
Seniors graduating from Ellwood City High School and Riverside High School are eligible to apply for the Dom Viccari-McDonald’s of Ellwood City Scholarship. The annual scholarship is named to honor the man who worked tirelessly to improve Ellwood City for all residents, first as a five-term council member and three-term council president, and later as borough manager for more than seven years until his retirement in 2013. Viccari passed away in 2022 at age 89.
McDonald's announced Paul and Meghan Sweeney, the father-daughter leadership of Tri County Management based in Cranberry Township, granted almost $153,000 in tuition assistance to local students in 2022 through the Archways To Opportunity program.
Jo Galvan, Manager of the McDonald’s Restaurant in Monaca, has won a Ray Kroc Award, an accolade that recognizes the top performing McDonald’s Restaurant Managers globally.
The owners of nearly 20 McDonald's locations in western Pennsylvania, including one in Ellwood City, believe students and residents deserve a break today. Paul Sweeney and his daughter Meghan opened the fast-food location on Fifth Street in the borough in December 1988 and immediately became members of the community.
Ray Kroc, founder of fast-food empire McDonald’s, likely would approve new technology revolutionizing restaurants in Vanport and Chippewa townships. “Engineering and ingenuity” excited the businessman who launched his storied restaurants April 15, 1955, in Des Plaines, Ill.