One of my first jobs as a teenager was at the Jack in the Box restaurant in Calumet City. I think I was making $1.45 per hour, which would have been the minimum wage at the time.
It was a typical kid job at the time. We made tacos and burgers (the secret sauce was Thousand Island dressing) and emptied the grease trap.
Then I moved on, but always had a soft spot for Jumbo Jacks, Bonus Jacks and Moby Jacks and the tacos. There were McDonald’s and Burger Kings all over the place, but not so many Jack in the Box restaurants…