For 10 years, shift supervisor Chuck McMurphree has been “flipping” Whoopers at the Steeplegate Mall Burger King in Concord, New Hampshire. An aspiring American Idol, he’s been singing every order for the past four. But the singing server got a rude awakening last week when he received a letter from his manager ordering him to put a lid on the crooning or risk a trip to the unemployment line.
“I told him straight out this was going to be hard for me because I have a happy outlook about life and I express myself by singing,”
http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100226/FRONTPAGE/2260302″>Chuck explains. “It’s like telling me to stop being left-handed.”
Many loyal BK customers aren’t taking the news well either. They want to see Chuck and his tunes stick around, and they’re taking their campaign to the Interwebs. A pair of local high school students — who knew Chuck only as “The Guy Who Sings Orders At Burger King” — recently launched a Facebook group of Chuck’s supporters. More than 1,500 people have signed a petition they hope convinces BK bosses to give Chuck his voice back.