'Every day is a bonus day' for 100-year-old McDonald's worker
She can’t give you the special sauce recipe or rattle off the rest of the ingredients in a tongue-twisting jingle, but Ruth Shuster, a team member at the McDonald’s Big Mac Museum who turned 100 on Wednesday, knows the ingredients for her own special sauce for longevity: “Live good! Live the way you want. Eat good and eat what you want. I eat a lot of candy — chocolate candy.”
The newly-minted centenarian started working at the restaurant/museum in North Huntingdon, PA, 26 years ago at age 73 and still walks to work three days a week. Although the dining room has been closed during the pandemic, her employer had a socially distanced celebration for her in the restaurant’s parking lot Wednesday and set up a custom mailbox for customers to drop off birthday messages.
“I like workin’ here,” she said. “I keep the dining room clean. I keep the windows clean. What needs done, I do it. It's a nice job and I don’t mind doing anything in here. They’re all nice people here and they make you feel wanted, and that’s important. I live by myself, I have the time and it's real close to my home. I can walk it. It's a pleasure to come down here to meet all the people that eat here. They’re all real nice.”
The lifelong resident of North Huntingdon, PA, graduated from high school during the Great Depression in 1938. She had a family with two children and now has five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. “I celebrate every day. I appreciate life [and] every day that I’m here. Every day is a bonus day for me.”
https://www.post-gazette.com/life/goodness/2021/03/03/McDonalds-Big-Mac-Museum-Ruth-Shuster-100th-birthday-North-Huntingdon/stories/202103030145
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