Day 123 - 09 May 95 - Page 47
1 else's express wishes, until about quarter past four.
2
3 (Short Adjournment).
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5 MS. STEEL: Mr. Beavers, did you go to Hamburger University?
6 A. Yes, I did.
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8 Q. You did. When were you at Hamburger University?
9 A. Back in the early 60s.
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11 Q. In the early 60s?
12 A. And I also returned again, let us see, in the 70s and
13 got a masters and then again in the 80s. So I have been
14 actually three times, not counting a bunch of other, you
15 know, seminars, professional seminars, that I have
16 attended.
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18 Q. In the early 60s that was before the official university
19 opened, was it not?
20 A. The new university had not been opened. We were still
21 located in Oak Grove, yes.
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23 Q. Was the one in Oak Grove in the basement of a McDonald's
24 store?
25 A. That was, that was a little bit before my time.
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27 Q. Which was the one that opened in 1968?
28 A. That was the one in Oak Grove. That was after we had
29 moved out of basement of the Oak Grove store, and built the
30 facility that was adjacent to the McDonald's restaurant.
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32 Q. So the first time you went that was the -----
33 A. The first one I attended was in Washington DC. We had
34 a hamburger college which was, the curriculum was exactly
35 the same as HU at Oak Grove. I started with a franchisee
36 that had 40 some restaurants and because of the number of
37 management people that he had, he really developed his own
38 programme, training programme, that was modelled after
39 McDonald's programme.
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41 Q. That was the one you went to in the early 60s?
42 A. I went it that before I went to HU. I went to both.
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44 Q. In the early 60s.
45 A. In the 60s, yes.
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47 Q. At the time you were there, was there a dean called Gerry
48 Pelletier, I might have pronounced it wrong?
49 A. Gerry Pelletier?
50
51 Q. That sounds right.
52 A. Gerry Pelletier, I believe, was a dean, probably in the
53 70s. He came along after I was there.
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55 Q. I mean, do you know him? Have you met him?
56 A. Yes, he is a franchisee now, in Tennessee.
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58 Q. Is it right that he is particularly fond of hamburgers?
59 A. I would assume that he is.
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