The Nevada Burger King cook who received a measly gift from management for his nearly 30 years of fast food service without ever missing a day is starting a new venture in the culinary industry.
Kevin Ford plans to open a food truck with his daughter after he received more than $400,000 from a fundraising campaign over his viral story
Ford struck internet fame in 2022 when his Burger King supervisors at the Las Vegas McCarran International Airport celebrated his 27th anniversary with the fast food joint with a random assortment of gifts.
Ford was handed a backpack with a movie ticket, a Starbucks cup and a mix of candy and chocolate for his nearly three decades of service.
Kevin Ford, the Burger King worker who went viral for the gift he received for working 27 years at the fast food chain, revealed his next culinary adventure.
Kevin Ford, the Burger King worker who went viral for the gift he received for working 27 years at the fast food chain, revealed his next culinary adventure.
His daughter, Seryna, wasn't so pleased with her father's bosses and created a GoFundMe to show her love for the man she says helped put his four daughters through high school and college because of his dedication to the chain.
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"He originally began working at this job as a single father when he gained custody of me and my older sister 27 years ago," Seryna wrote back in 2022.
"Then as our family grew and he remarried, he continued to work there because of the amazing health insurance that was provided through this employer because it was unionized. This got all four of his daughters through high school and college with full healthcare coverage."
The fundraiser has since made $459,800, well over the initial $200 goal.
Ford purchased the black and silver food truck from China for roughly $20,000. The kitchen-on-wheels comes fully equipped with the works including an oven and fryer, the outlet reported.
K27Y, a reference to Ford's viral fame.
Ford's new black and silver food truck comes fully equipped with the works including an oven and fryer and is named K27Y, a reference to Ford's viral fame.
Ford purchased a food truck trailer from China for roughly $20,000 that he plans to open with his daughter. GoFundMe
Ford purchased a food truck trailer from China for roughly $20,000 that he plans to open with his daughter.
The Burger King employee and his daughter, who was trained at the French culinary school Le Cordon Bleu, will begin with a basic menu consisting of hamburgers and hot dogs.
Ford told the outlet he wanted to add Filipino dishes to the menu to honor his Filipina fiancée.
As he begins his entrepreneurship, Ford remains a dedicated worker at Burger King but plans to retire by May 2025, his 30th anniversary with the company, he told the outlet.
The purchase of the new mobile dining establishment comes months after Ford bought his first home thanks to the money raised through the GoFundMe.
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"I wanted to show you something, something you made possible, you did for me, just a hardworking guy," Ford said in a video posted to Instagram on Dec. 29. "Now I know it needs some work, gonna cut off the haters already, I know it's not a mansion but it's mine."
For his 27 year anniversary at Burger King, Ford was handed a backpack with a movie ticket, a Starbucks cup and a mix of candy and chocolate.
For his 27 year anniversary at Burger King, Ford was handed a backpack with a movie ticket, a Starbucks cup and a mix of candy and chocolate.
K27Y plans to start out small doing pop-ups around the area he purchased his home.
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27 years isn't exactly a milestone anniversary. I wouldn't expect anything for years that weren't multiples of 10.
Also could you imagine working in the Las Vegas Airport Burger King for nearly three decades?
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My wife knows vet techs that been in the same job for 30-40 years. Same job. No goals or aspirations for anything higher. Its shit like that is what makes me a firm believer most people really are just
that are content with doing the same thing over and over again. Forever.
Which is why I'm sad to think this dudes food truck business is going to flop in a year. He literally doesn't know how to do anything else except flip patties, and running your own business where you have to handle all the logistics yourself? Yeah half a mil down the drain lol.
Lol dude who reported my comment is 16 days into his grass award
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Vet techs get paid good money and its a great job if you love animals. I dont blame them for staying so long
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People are
for having contentment with their job position?
career brained psychopathy
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I don't blame people for being content in their job but that has to eventually drive you insane, right? I straight up left law when I got an offer at the patent office and talked through the career progression with the interviewer.
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Ouuuugh I'm going insaaaaaane
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Hey different strokes, I'm not saying to job hop every 2 years but a little change or progression every 5 years or so sounds more reasonable than something like
Then at least you're at less risk of becoming redundant from some new process automation
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Does showering every day drive you insane?
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Yes because I wash my hands 100 times per day because they smell like my mother.
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Who said this about me
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Please go watch Perfect Days. The japanese
have a message for you in this topic
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Most millenials will never know a job outside a dead office and a computer, or worse, a work from homo job.
Almost every new hire @StolenValorShill get in Forestry are passionate and dedicated too the work within a year because they've taken the effort too start a career where you work outside in a calm serene environment and do work that actually matters for the betterment of the environment that's 100% aligned with TR's vision of preserving our resources for generations too come. @StolenValorShill don't think I've had a single ranger or forester leave unsatisfied with the job. White extinction is long overdue
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I like to throw my cigarette butts out the window when driving through state parks
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State parks aren't national parks but that's still. Store you're butts, preserve our land white extinction is long overdue
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NOO YOU CANT JUST BE CONTENT WITH A JOB!
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You're more than welcome to. We always need willing wageslaves.
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Larping on drama is so sad sweaty
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I'm a contractor.
Yes, I literally do nothing most days of the week and get paid a lot of money.
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That's what you're bragging about in these comments?
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I literally make money doing nothing bro. You wish you were me
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Must not be enough or your wife wouldn't need a job
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So much this. Idk why people get so offended about it @BoBandy know what @BoBandy's capabilities are and @BoBandy do em too fund a life outside of work. @BoBandy basically spend all day fantasizing about @BoBandy's next camping trip when @BoBandy is at work. Shit sucks but oh well @BoBandy drink and have s*x with women about it lol. But darn when you call someone a wageslave online do you EVER bring out the failsons
Jewish lives matter
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At least he bought a house first. As long as he doesn't end up mortgaging it to support his business when it starts to die.
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Surely 27 years at an airport Burger King has taught him a thing or two about making burgers
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vet techs are generally highschool drop out foids who have no career potential anyway, so playing with dogs all day and gossiping is their ideal life.
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Pretty much, they're all loser but my wife doesn't deal with them as much now and focuses on replacing hips on dogs n shit.
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Except if you're in the same job making the same wage +penny raises for decades you're working more for less every year.
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Maybe the daughter learned a thing or two at Cordon Blue?
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Maybe, then it would be a happy ending and thats cool.
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The trick is using a cushy job to fund side projects and hustle on the side. It's how creatives get by. Nothing stopping wagies from doing the same.
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the daughter is the one with the goals. she studied at some chef school. she figured out how too turn his 20 seconds of fame into a successful gofundme campaign. she's gonna figure out how too make it a success.
jewish lives matter
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There's no need to yell but I am glad you have enthusiasm.
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frick off !!
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I liked when I hit my 10 year anniversary so my employer sent me an "engraved Klein tool" (linesmans pliers)
1. I already have a linesmans. You get one on your first day
2. It wasn't engraved, it was silkscreened.
3. It wasn't a Klein, it was an Ideal.
4. instead of my name, they silkscreened the company name.
5. The company changed their name a few months later.
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I got some POS Caravelle watch
(Bulova's Ultrapoors Division). The lady from the jewelry 
store was talking 
it up so much to me until she asked 
about the watch 
I was wearing. GShock MTG B1000 with carbon 
fiber bezel, AR coated sapphire crystal, atomic 
time and solar 
powered. The bracelet of my GShock was worth more than the whole Caravelle. I could see she knew I knew what a POS my "reward" was. It felt like it was made from hollowed out tin and would 
lose like 5 minutes of time per week. I'd rather gotten an extra $50 on my paycheck for that week.
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He did it for his kids, so he's fine in my books.
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20 years used to be a gold watch.
But I doubt anyone can last 20 years at the same company in the US anymore.
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My takeaway is unambitious guy wins almost half a milli for doing the bare minimum. Wooooowwwww he showed up for work like he's supposed to!
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