PresidentJoe Bidenordered takeout fromGhostburgerin Washington, DC. Tuesday — giving a star employee the surprise of a lifetime.
Co-founder of the pandemic start-up, Josh Phillips, and his wife, Kelly, arranged for their employee Brittany Spaddy to take the call,orchestrating the plan ahead of timewith the Biden administration.
“She earned it,” Phillips toldThe Washington Postof his dedicated worker, explaining that the couple told Spaddy she needed to come to work ahead of the 1 p.m. call just to make sure she was around.
“I got a little star-struck when I answered the phone, and I’m normally not like this,” Spaddy said of her shock call. “I heard the voice, and I’m like, ‘No way! No way! No way!'”
The outlet noted that Biden asked for a single Ghostburger with bacon, no cheese and no “spooky sauce,” plus another burger with cheese, but no sauce. He also ordered fries.
Biden and Vice PresidentKamala Harrislater enjoyed theirburgers in the White Houseand posted a photo on Twitter celebrating the work of small businesses in America.
“Today,@VPand I ordered our lunch from@GhostburgerDC– one of the 10.5 million small businesses that have applied to start during our Administration,” he captioned the picture withKamala Harris, displaying big smiles while eating their burgers together at the White House. “If you missed the news, ketchup: that’s the most in a two-year period. Ever.”
“More proof that our economic plan is working,” he added.
Biden also shared the exchange with Spaddy. “I may have caught Brittany off guard,” he tweeted in an earlier post,adding video footage of the call.
“How’s business at Ghostburger?” Biden asked. “Pretty good,” Spaddy replied.
“That’s crazy,” Spaddy said after hanging up with the president. “Ooh, I’m shaking.”
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Spaddy later expanded toThe Washington Poston what it was like taking a burger order from the President of the United States.
“I feel like he said, ‘How’s your day?’ Because when I tell you I froze, I froze. Like, I kind of felt embarrassed at how much I froze on the phone,” Spaddy said. “I’m like, he’s not even in front of you, and you’re fiddling with the computer screens, just trying to take the order properly. You don’t want to mess this order up!”
“It definitely seemed as if he wanted to have a conversation,” she added. “Like I said, I was very, I guess, nervous. My nerves got to me. I was just like, ‘Okay, have a great day!'”
Though White House aides picked up the burgers for Biden on Tuesday, Spaddy said the surprise phone call was enough.
“This is not what I thought my Tuesday was going to be,” Spaddy said. “I feel really honored to have taken that call.”
source: people.com
