Sep 17, 2026 · 15 min · 9 segments
In this week’s episode of Conversations with Mark, I am joined by Ryan Reardon, local McDonald's Franchisee. We discuss the challenges of running a small business, taking care of your employees and…
Mark HuizengaHostyep yep no it's a that's a great point so you know to your question there's around 500 locations in the state of michigan 90 are owned by independent owner operators so the vast majority Our guys like me, guys and girls like me.
So there's you have the person that comes out looking to join the job force and get their first job.
The beautiful thing about working for us is if you have 10 hours that you want to work in a week or you have 40 hours, you want to work in a week.
So a lot of times it's a second shifter with a two earner household or, you know, a parent that gets her kids off to school and can only work between eight and four o'clock.
Recently, the company did a national advertisement campaign of one in eight people at some point in their life worked at McDonald's.
So the beautiful thing about that is the systems and the processes in place that that are put out for you when you go to work, you can apply that to anything.
So when people see that you worked at a McDonald's, you know, if you apply for a job at a factory or, you know, you want to move on in a different area of management, knowing that you had this set of systems that you work by.
And those things translate to probably every other job in the rest of your life, really.
yep yep no it's a that's a great point so you know to your question there's around 500 locations in the state of michigan 90 are owned by independent owner operators so the vast majority Our guys like me, guys and girls like me.
So there's you have the person that comes out looking to join the job force and get their first job.
The beautiful thing about working for us is if you have 10 hours that you want to work in a week or you have 40 hours, you want to work in a week.
So a lot of times it's a second shifter with a two earner household or, you know, a parent that gets her kids off to school and can only work between eight and four o'clock.
Recently, the company did a national advertisement campaign of one in eight people at some point in their life worked at McDonald's.
So the beautiful thing about that is the systems and the processes in place that that are put out for you when you go to work, you can apply that to anything.
So when people see that you worked at a McDonald's, you know, if you apply for a job at a factory or, you know, you want to move on in a different area of management, knowing that you had this set of systems that you work by.
And those things translate to probably every other job in the rest of your life, really.
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