<div><p>Loraine Maurer started working for McDonald's in 1973 and has been a loyal employee ever since. </p><p>The 94-year-old customer service savant has worked at a variety of locations in Evansville, Indiana in her 44-year career. Although she loves the food, it's not what keeps her clocking in every day.</p><p>"If you don't like your job, it's a job, but I love it," she tells <a href="http://people.com/human-interest/mcdonalds-94-year-old-woman-employee/">PEOPLE</a>. "The people, the clientele, that's why I stuck with it."</p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/loraine-mcdonalds-2.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/loraine-mcdonalds-2_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/loraine-mcdonalds-2_GH_content_650px.jpg 650w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/loraine-mcdonalds-2_GH_content_750px.jpg 750w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/loraine-mcdonalds-2_GH_content_850px.jpg 850w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/loraine-mcdonalds-2_GH_content_950px.jpg 950w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/loraine-mcdonalds-2_GH_content_1050px.jpg 1050w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/loraine-mcdonalds-2_GH_content_1150px.jpg 1150w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/loraine-mcdonalds-2_GH_content_1250px.jpg 1250w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/loraine-mcdonalds-2_GH_content_1350px.jpg 1350w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/loraine-mcdonalds-2_GH_content_1450px.jpg 1450w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/loraine-mcdonalds-2_GH_content_1550px.jpg 1550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/loraine-mcdonalds-2_GH_content_1630px.jpg 1630w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img></figure></div><p>It's no surprise that her customers have become a kind of extended family. After 44 years of serving the community, you can't help but become an important part of people's lives: </p><p>"I know what goes on with them," she says, " I know some of their children. Some ask me to say a prayer and I do, I know their lives.</p><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/loraine-mcdonalds-1.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/loraine-mcdonalds-1_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/loraine-mcdonalds-1_GH_content_650px.jpg 650w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/loraine-mcdonalds-1_GH_content_750px.jpg 750w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/loraine-mcdonalds-1_GH_content_850px.jpg 850w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/loraine-mcdonalds-1_GH_content_950px.jpg 950w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/loraine-mcdonalds-1_GH_content_1050px.jpg 1050w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/loraine-mcdonalds-1_GH_content_1150px.jpg 1150w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/loraine-mcdonalds-1_GH_content_1250px.jpg 1250w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/loraine-mcdonalds-1_GH_content_1350px.jpg 1350w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/loraine-mcdonalds-1_GH_content_1450px.jpg 1450w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/loraine-mcdonalds-1_GH_content_1550px.jpg 1550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/loraine-mcdonalds-1_GH_content_1630px.jpg 1630w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img></figure></div><p>Dozens of people stopped by the restaurant to celebrate Loraine's long service. ""After all these years, she remains committed to serving her customers with one of the most delightful smiles around," said Chip and Katie Kenworthy, owners of the McDonald's store Mauer works at.</p><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p>Mauer, a mother of four, eats McDonald's for every shift since she started in '73. Staff even deliver it to her home on days she can't come into work.</p><div><figure><a href="https://www.google.ca/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj_tvDe0v7SAhXm6YMKHZefDQQQjB0IBg&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmetro.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworld%2Ffeed%2F&bvm=bv.151325232,d.amc&psig=AFQjCNGznTi2REgRMUx0Z-gH1E14DOTeqw&ust=1490977600918548" target="_blank"><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/pri_34676933.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/pri_34676933_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/pri_34676933_GH_content_650px.jpg 650w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/pri_34676933_GH_content_750px.jpg 750w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/pri_34676933_GH_content_850px.jpg 850w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/pri_34676933_GH_content_950px.jpg 950w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/pri_34676933_GH_content_1050px.jpg 1050w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/pri_34676933_GH_content_1150px.jpg 1150w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/pri_34676933_GH_content_1250px.jpg 1250w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/pri_34676933_GH_content_1350px.jpg 1350w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/pri_34676933_GH_content_1450px.jpg 1450w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/pri_34676933_GH_content_1550px.jpg 1550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/pri_34676933_GH_content_1630px.jpg 1630w" sizes="89vw" title="" alt="" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img></a><figcaption class="op-vertical-center"><cite><a href="https://www.google.ca/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj_tvDe0v7SAhXm6YMKHZefDQQQjB0IBg&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmetro.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworld%2Ffeed%2F&bvm=bv.151325232,d.amc&psig=AFQjCNGznTi2REgRMUx0Z-gH1E14DOTeqw&ust=1490977600918548" target="_blank">Metro</a></cite></figcaption></figure></div><p>Although she loves the food, she loves her customers more:</p><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p>"My customers make my life," she says. "I have traveled with them, gone to ball games with them. They're friends, not just customers."</p><p>Miss Loraine, you could offer a master class in customer service - job well done!</p><p></p><p></p></div>
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