Calkins: Happy National Drive-Thru Day! Some American heroes serve fries
Wendy’s employee Marl Bush cleans the drive-thru menu stand on Tuesday, July 21, 2020, on Airline Road. Working fast food has never been easy, but the pandemic has added a lot of extra complications. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Geoff Calkins
Geoff Calkins has been chronicling Memphis and Memphis sports for more than two decades. He is host of "The Geoff Calkins Show" from 9-11 a.m. M-F on 92.9 FM. Calkins has been named the best sports columnist in the country five times by the Associated Press sports editors, but still figures his best columns are about the people who make Memphis what it is.
We curse them, criticize them and (sometimes even) flip them the bird. On National Drive-Thru Day, let's hear it for the front-line workers who see us at our worst.
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