In a brief two-minute ceremony before the dinner rush in Maple Heights Sunday evening, Applebee’s regional manager Tina Hamilton named Machine Gun Kelly as employee of the month. The award comes with an extra 15% off any appetizer this week and a cardboard plaque.
“Machine Gun Kelly really demonstrated the ideals we want all servers to embody,” said Hamilton.
The award for the former musical artist was celebrated by coworkers who noted that just two months ago they wouldn’t have envisioned its possibility.
“He called off on a Saturday night, and I heard from the dishwasher that he was written up for making himself a margarita one night, and he tried to hang a signed copy of an old headshot on the wall and our boss didn’t like that very much,” said coworker Peter Nelson. “Honestly, watching him turn things around really makes me want to raise my game.”
Calls to Kelly were not returned and a dejected manager said he hadn’t showed up for his shift after the announcement.
“There were rumors of a snapchat from Vegas of him celebrating, but I don’t believe that yet,” said Nelson.
This article appears in Mar 2-8, 2016.
Wow, that’s singlehandedly the worst satire I’ve ever had the displeasure of wasting my time reading. 0/10 article, didn’t laugh once, and quite frankly putting MGK on blast after essentially bringing cleavland on the map is a little ignorant. Elaina, kindly suck a fat one.
Are you kidding? What a waste of Internet space. Don’t you guys have better things to report? Why bash a local artist, one who is doing quite well at that!
How you gonna have the name of the city in the name of the magazine and trash an artist that is constantly puts on for the city…. SCENE IS TRASH
Really? So you are going to do a very poor satire article on a talented artist who has helped hundreds of thousands of out of state dollars to Cleveland and Ohio as well as helped Cleveland get into national conversations? Don’t get mad because he had the courage to chase his dream and bet on himself and actually succeeded .