After "Supersize me" they may just be being quiet .

-----Original Message-----
From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
Behalf Of Stephanie Thomas
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 12:12 PM
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Subject: @CHECK++ Re: McDonald's & RM


Several years ago my mother worked for a local restaurant chain when the
chain celebrated its 50th anniversary.  The head office had saved copies of
the menus through the years.  To celebrate the anniversary they had paper
placemats made with the original opening day menu on them.  On the day of
the anniversary of the first opening they used the place mats as the menus
and charged the original 1940's prices.  As you can imagine, there were
diners lined up around the block.

Maybe McDonald's would be interested in the idea:-)

Stephanie Thomas
Office Manager
Aur Resources Inc.



-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Barnard [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 12:49 PM
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Subject: McDonald's & RM


Here's something besides taxes to ponder on a Friday.

I heard on the radio this morning that McDonald's is celebrating their 50th
birthday.  Did you know about this?  There's only a small bit of info on the
McDonald's website.  It seems to me, having seen Disney's 50th birthday
commercials for the past year, that McDonald's would want to advertise this
milestone.  They could run old commercials - "McDonald's is my kind of
place," "Ronald McDonald & His Flying Hamburger" and of course "You Deserve
a Break Today."  Have a Ronald McDonald reunion.  Things like that.  But
other than the news article this morning, I haven't heard anything!

Maybe they don't need the publicity.  Maybe someone dropped the ball in
promoting this.  Or maybe they didn't preserve enough records to document
their history.  This is just speculation, but I wonder how good their RM
program is...

So, let me ask you, fellow RM's.  When YOUR company (or government agency)
hits a milestone such as this, will you have preserved the records that can
document its history?  Yet, how do you recognize in a fledgling company that
your first purchase of Item X will be a historical record someday?

Has Larry M been rubbing off on me?

Tim Barnard, Records Management Clerk
Harrison County, Mississippi
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