Supermac's

[laughs] USA.

[laughs] Uh, and I, I resisted my urge of my usual routine was, which was getting a snack box from Supermac's 'cause I didn't want to be eating another bird in front of JJ.

[laughs] Um, so yeah, so, uh, on, on, onwards to Dublin anyway, and Tom had picked the maddest place to meet, like, uh, so he was like, "We'll meet at the Hard Rock Cafe on Fleet Street." [laughs] I was like, "That, that re- that really tickled me," like a fella who didn't know where La Hinch was, but he knew where the Hard Rock Cafe was.

So I was about 20 minutes away from there anyway, and I gave him a buzz, and I was like, "Tom, I'm nearly there, man." And he was like, "Do you know what? I'm not coming in at all." I was like, "What the fuck?" I was like, "This, this fella's cheeky, like.

We actually had a grand ambition that we were going to go to-

Supermac's?

No, the real fancy hotel.

We wanted to go in there for lunch, but, and we were actually thinking about potentially staying there yesterday night.

Yeah.

And I was like, "Oh, there's a Supermac's here." I never knew that.

Really?

In terminal two.

So I was thinking, "Oh, I'll g- when I get in early, I'll go get a Supermac's."

Okay.

And I was thinking...

I was like, "Oh, that'll be good," 'cause there's no Supermac's in anywhere I'm going, and I actually quite like it as...

So, um, yeah, uh, so it's great to be back here.

How many Supermacs have you now, Pat?

Um, we've 120, and hopefully another one or two opening now this, this year.

So, um, yeah, it's going all right so far.

It's like any other job or any other, uh, career.

Uh, you'll always have ups and downs, and it's being prepared to, to d- to deal with that, and never, never give up.

I, I d- um, just before we finish, we, we had a, we had a, a, a colleague working with us for many, many years in, in Ocean FM, and he used to tell me that his first job was in Supermacs, and you were his first boss.

Uh, but the story he had to tell was, and he, he didn't have a very high-profile position in Supermacs at the time, but you s- took the time to speak to him on every occasion that you were there, and you gave him life advice, and you advised him about his education and his future, and he never forgot that, he said.

Did anywhere actually run out of toilet roll though, did they?

Eoin, I'm telling you, there was now and then we walked in a fucking Supermac's.

Yeah, but- Yeah, because the staff were hiding it on the customers.

[laughs]

A very small glass, uh, glass that's, uh, supposedly, uh, supposedly designed to put...

I've only got this frigging glass free in Supermac's drive-thru at Christmas.

It's got a frigging Santa Claus on it and the Supermac's logo, and they give a h- a large meal that came with about half a gallon of frigging fizzy cola, and they give you this free tiny little glass with it, and you try and pour your Coke into it, and it spills all over the car.

And you say, "Uh, this won't meet my needs at all." And they say something along the lines of, "Well, it's not really intended as a receptacle for the drink that you're buying with this takeout meal from the drive-thru.

Uh, you're meant to bring it home and keep it and use it for your Christmas entertainments." You think, "Oh, yeah." You c- you wait till Christmas Eve when you have all your relations around, and, uh, you say, "Oh, look, I've something to entertain you with now.