Lunch hours draw crowds,
but Burger King balances profits
By Bob Nelson
Staff Reporter
For Duane Sattler, manager of the
Nebraska Union Burger King, lines of
hungry people mean profits.
“We probably serve twice as many
people during the noon hour as at the
store I worked at before,” Sattler said.
He said an average of 1,000 people
eat in his restaurant during weekday
lunch hour. The rush lasts from 10:30
a.m. to 2 p.m.
Sattler said his restaurant employs
17 people during the lunch hour. At
the beginning of the semester, Sattler
employed as many as 25 people over
the lunch hour. He said he employed
so many because the crew' was inex
perienced and he wasn’t sure how
busy the rush hours would be.
Overall statistics for the store are
not as startling as lunch-hour statis
tics, he said. Traffic in the store
greatly decreases during the evenings
and on weekends.
The restaurant’s profits are also
restricted by university holiday
scheduling. The Burger King must be
closed during Labor Day, Thanksgiv
ing and Christmas because the Ne
braska Union is closed during these
holidays. Holidays are busy times for
restaurants, so being closed then is
unusual, Sattler said. Besides losing
business, there are other problems
with closing down for any period of
time.
“We have a lot of fresh produce
like tomatoes and lettuce that cannot
sit for days,” Sattler said.
He said the produce must either be
sold to customers or transferred to
another Burger King.
Sattler said the combination of an
extremely busy lunch hour and slow
nights and weekends evens out the
profits. He said the union Burger
King does about as much business as
other area Burger Kings.
Craig Cormack, president of Cor
mack Enterprises, owner of the
Nebraska Union Burger King fran
chise, said the Burger King is doing
much better than expected. Cormack
said profits for the store will probably
“substantially exceed” the $600,000
a-year mark set in the contract be
tween Cormack Enterprises and the
Nebraska Union.
If $600,000 in profits is reached,
Burger King will pay the Union 7
percent of the profits made beyond
$600,000, in addition to the $42,000
Cormack pays annually for rent in the
Union.
Sattler said the union Burger King
will soon run specials during evening
and weekend hours to increase sales.
The union Burger King’s grand open
ing will be today through Sunday,
including specials and drawings for
prizes.
RHA to discuss petition’s complaints
concerning financial aid office tonight
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current status and needs of the
Office of Scholarships and Finan
cial Aid,” the report said.
The report includes a history of
the office, a list of recent improve
ments and an assessment of the
challenges the office still faces.
McFarland’s report includes
requests for three additional staff
members and two employee re
classifications. In the past 10 years,
only four people have been added
to the Office of Scholarships and
Financial Aid. During this same
period, the office has increased
yearly transactions by more than
21,000. In the 1977-78 school year,
the office issued 9,036 loans,
grants and scholarship awards.
The requests include a new as
sociate director, a data specialist or
systems analyst, and a staff secre
tary. The employee reclassifica
tions include upgrading the office
supervisor position to admmislra
uve technician and upgrading the
most experienced receptionist to
the job title of Clerical Assistant
III.
Salary adjustments are also
requested in the report. According
to the report, salaries in the Office
of Scholarships and Financial Aid
are “considerably below the lowest
end of the average salary ranges”
compared with financial aid of
fices at other Big Eight universi
ties.
The report also indicates a need
for additional office space. Despite
an allocation of 600 square feet in
the fall of 1986, the office has
requested another 6,034 square
feet, the report said.
The last request is a $20,000
budget reserve to allow the office
to “respond quickly to rapidly
changing requirements” and allow
the office to employ full-time
temporary staff during peak peri
ods to answer telephones and im
prove service to students.
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