Burger King Employee Only Got a Gift Bag of After Having 27 Years of Perfect Attendance, Gets Over $159K In Donations

Burger King Employee Only Got a Gift Bag of After Having 27 Years of Perfect Attendance, Gets Over 9K In Donations

Burger King Employee Only Got a Gift Bag of After Having 27 Years of Perfect Attendance, Gets Over $159K In Donations

A 54-year-old fast-food employee, recently went viral after receiving a gift bag of items for working for a fast food restaurant for over 20 years. Kevin Ford has worked for Burger King, under the Culinary Union Local 226, for over 27 years. In appreciation of his years with the company he got a bag filled with items to show celebrate his loyalty.

In a video, Ford is in the kitchen area in a Burger King showint the items in his gift bag: one movie ticket, a large bag of Reese’s Pieces candy, a Starbucks plastic cup and straw, a lanyard, two ink pens, a couple of key chains and two rolls of Lifesavers candy.

Captioned over his TikTok video, he wrote, “My Reward That My Job Got Me for 27 Years, NEVER MISSED A DAY OF WORK … ty.”

He also wrote, “Loyalty Pays Off!” and “So Thankful.”

“I’m happy about anything I get. I’m not that type of person,” he shared in an exclusive interview with TMZ. “Believe me I’ve been through a lot, so, I’m happy about what I got.”

Ford has been able to see how other restaurant employees who have dedicated decades to their companies, and some of have gotten monetary bonuses and sometimes vehicles.

“I worked for the Culinary Union 226 Las Vegas, you know, and they work for different themes out there,” he explained.

“A lot of times you can be working for Burger King, you can be working for any place, all these different restaurants.”

However, Ford thinks the corporations have “lost touch with their workers.”

He said HMS Host, the company that does a lot of the hiring for Burger King, just gave him “stuff laying around, that they put together.”

“We used to get checks, you know for 20 years, and I asked what I actually thought that movie ticket was. I was like ‘Hey, they finally gave me my car,’ ” he recalled. “Then when I see that there were not even two movie tickets … there was only, I was like ‘This is just too much.’ ”

Ford has been at Burger King for almost 30 years and has never missed a day. One of his wishes is to get some time off so he can “relax.”

“I can’t even think about having a day off,” he said. “I haven’t had a day in so long.”

Burger King responded to the attention the video has gotten with a statement.

“The Burger King brand and its many franchisees nationwide are committed to recognizing and celebrating the achievements of the thousands of people serving across a wide range of roles — all dedicated to providing our guests a world-class experience,” the corporation stated.

The statement added, “Following review with this location’s franchisee, we’ve learned that this video depicts a Team Member in receipt of a peer-to-peer reward in recognition of a short-term positive performance/experience. The franchisee offers its Team Members a robust employee recognition program, which includes the recognition of tenure milestones and monetary awards.”

After the video gained traction, Ford’s daughter Seryna set up a GoFundMe campaign, hoping to lift her father’s spirits and show him how much he means to people.

She wrote, “The man in that video is my father. He has worked at his job for 27 years and yes, he has never missed a day of work.”

Seryna explained how her father started working at Burger King after gaining custody of her and her sister. Ford stayed working at the fast-food chain to ensure his family was taken care of. There have been over $159,000 donations raised since the GoFundMe was created.

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