If there is anyone who specializes in the drive-thru experience, it is the manager of a fast-food restaurant.
CNN reports that when a COVID-19 drive-thru vaccine clinic in South Carolina was closed, the mayor called in a specialist – the manager of the local restaurant Chick-fil-A.
According to CNN, the clinic opened on January 22, but quickly became overloaded, causing the computer system that managed the records to fall.
The mayor, Will Haynie told CNN, he immediately thought of Jerry Walkowiak, the manager of a neighbor Chick-fil-A.
“When I heard about this, I called Jerry and asked if he could help us,” Mount Pleasant Mayor Will Haynie told CNN. “After examining, he said: ‘There is your problem. It is backed up because you have a person registering people. So he showed us how to do it right. “
Walkowiak quickly organized more volunteers and reduced waiting hours to just 15 minutes.
The clinic gave the vaccine to 1,000 people that day, CNN reported. When these people return on February 12 for their second dose, Walkowiak said he will be there.
Walkowiak told WCBD that “we saw a little problem with their drive-thru system and we needed more people, so we gathered some of Rotary’s wonderful volunteers and went over there and just managed to speed up the registration part.”
Authorities have been looking for big event organizers and fast food managers to help deal with big events like mass testing and vaccination sites.
According to The Associated Press, the state of Massachusetts asked Boston Marathon director Dave McGillivray “to conduct mass vaccination operations at Gillette Stadium and Fenway Park.
Lost in his daily work by the pandemic, he is part of an emerging group of event planners and other unconventional logistics experts who are using their skills to help the nation vaccinate as many people as possible against COVID-19. “
The AP reported: “‘It’s amazing how our set of event management skills can be applied to administer a massive vaccination site,’ said McGillivray, who has run the marathon for more than three decades.
The impetus for creative alternative solutions arises as virus cases increase across the country, queues grow at testing and vaccination sites and tempers explode as government websites fall under the digital weight of millions in search of desperate queries ”.
AP reported that Starbucks and Amazon were providing support for vaccination operations in Washington state. In California, Disneyland is undertaking a massive vaccination effort, as is Six Flags Magic Mountain, some 60 miles to the north.