And how about this...?

In 1963 the busiest clown in America, Ronald McDonald, made his debut in Washington, D.C. But beneath that red wig and 14 1/2-inch shoes was someone who would later become the portly weatherman on NBCs "Today" show. You got it, Willard Scott.

Future Ronald McDonald wanna-be's get their training at McDonald's so called college, just a many of the chains managers and franchise owners do. It is a surprisingly busy institution. By 1001 the 40,000th student was granted a Hamburgerology Degree from McDonald's Hamburger University in Oak Brook, Illinois. Hamburger University was set up to provide instruction for McDonald's personnel in the various aspects of their business-equipment, controls, human relations skills, and management skills.

Nearly 3,000 students pass through the halls of the school each year as they continue to grow in their McDonald's careers. And the American council on Education has approved eighteen of the universities courses for college credits.
One more chapter in the studies of H.U. graduates came in 1985, when the "hot side" and "cool side" of the McD.L.T. found their way onto McDonald's menu. It lives on only in this book, for five years after it was introduced, the McD.L.T. was dropped and replaced with the McLean Deluxe.