Discuss Seven Corners Magic Pan: The Beginning http://themagicpanproject.com/library/articles/magic-pan-stories/106-seven-corners-magic-pan-the-beginning.html Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:37:47 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://themagicpanproject.com/library/articles/magic-pan-stories/106-seven-corners-magic-pan-the-beginning.html#comment-8 I was sent there as an assistant manager from Nicollet Mall Magic Pan in Minneapolis to close the Seven Corners store. It was January of 1986 when I arrived and the restaurant closed in April I think. I arrived just in time for a huge snowstorm that shut the city down, funny to me coming from Minnesota. The woman who had been the GM for 10 years there left when she found out it was closing. Some of the staff went to work at Tyson's Corner which was off the charts busy. Many of the staff had been there for years and it was very sad for them. I remember the cavernous underground city in the basement of Seven Corners. It was amazing the space they dedicated to training and operations there. Even in the final days of that location there were corporate people training and holding seminars for the staff and especially the managers. I ended up being transferred to Newbury Street and worked under Connie Stephan, who had come from MN also. I'll never forget dismantling the wheel, it was sad Dan Patterson Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:42:52 +0100