10 Celebs Who Worked In Fast Food Before They Were Famous

Fast food can be a tough gig, but it was good enough for SpongeBob

We're counting down the top 10 celebs who worked fast food jobs, as voted on by you, the viewer

Long before he was training rafters in Jurassic World, Chris Pratt was a waiter at the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company in Maui, Hawaii

In 2019, he posted a picture of himself at Bubba Gump Shrimp Company Restaurant

He captioned the picture, 20 years ago, I was a waiter at Bubba Gump Shrimp Company

Every time I go back, I'm reminded of the thousands of shrimp I ate off of people's plates on the way back to the kitchen

Please tip your server. Leave at least 20%. Also leave some shrimp

While working there, Chris waited on actress Ray Don Chong, who ended up casting him in his first movie, Cursed Part 3

Queen Latifah got her first job when she was 15 at her local Burger King

According to Digital Spy, Latifah got angry after cleaning the bathrooms during a shift

She said, I would clean these bathrooms like they were my own. They would be immaculate when I was done with them

Then she got into a fight with her manager and told him, you can't talk to me that way after I just cleaned that bathroom

She was fired after talking back to him. Latifah later returned to the Burger King when she became famous to rub it in his face

only to find out that the manager had quit. In a 2015 op for the Washington Post James Franco recalled his time working the late shift on the drive at McDonald At the time McDonald was going through corporate restructuring and was struggling in sales

He wrote, Someone asked me if I was too good to work at McDonald's. I went to the nearest Mickey D's and was hired the same day

All I know is that when I needed McDonald's, McDonald's was there for me, when no one else was

He practiced different accents at the drive-thru to prepare for his acting classes

In 2008, Rachel McAdams told the New York Times that she worked for McDonald's for three years

She said, I'm not sure why they kept me. I'm something of a daydreamer and a dawdler

so they would only let me be the friendly voice that greeted you when you entered the restaurant

I was slow. I would be organizing the sweet and sour packets in the customer's takeout bag while the line snaked out the door

When asked how she ended up at McDonald's, Rachel said, I was 16 and directing kids theater, which didn't totally pay the bills

Despite her lack of drive, she said McDonald's was a great place to work

Former President Barack Obama's first job was scooping ice cream at Baskin Robbins in Honolulu, Hawaii

In 2016, he announced the Summer Opportunity Program and touched on his first job

He wrote, My first summer job wasn't exactly glamorous, but it taught me some valuable lessons

Responsibility hard work balancing a job with friends and family and school He also added that ice cream really isn for him anymore He wrote and everyone who works at a fast food restaurant has to flip burgers or drop fries

After dropping out of college to pursue acting, Brad Pitt found himself paying the bills working for El Pollo Loco

While there, he donned a giant chicken costume in order to hand out flyers to passerbys

Talking to Ellen DeGeneres, Brad had no shame when it came to the job saying

Man's gotta eat. When did you get paid for that? I don't know, but I got flipped off a lot

Before she was a desperate housewife, Eva Longoria was desperate to pay for her quinceañera and got a job at Wendy's

For National Cheeseburger Day in 2017, Rachel Ray had Eva on her show to show off the burger talent she learned at Wendy's

Eva cooked burgers and said, What we learned at Wendy's was mayonnaise goes on the bun first to seal the bun

Yeah, so the bun stays. stays nice and then you put ketchup on top of that and mustard goes on the meat because it brings out

the flavor of meat. Despite getting the job to pay for her quinceañera, Eva worked at Wendy's for six

years. As a 17-year-old, Nick Cannon's mom made him get a job and he ended up at Wienerschnitzel

Nick told MTV my mother made me get a job at like Wienerschnitzel It was a job just to kind of help ends meet I ended up getting fired Nick was fired because he was too busy practicing for his future Amy Adams admitted that her time at Hooters was just fine and she was able to save up enough money to buy a car

On the red carpet, Amy was asked about her time at Hooters and she said..

It was a great job out of high school, and I was a hostess at first, and then I waited tables for a while, and they were great

It was a great way to earn money for a car. Amy embraced her first full-time job, adding

The pay, $7 an hour, was double the minimum wage, a fortune at that time

As a hostess, I wore a discreet little tennis outfit. When I turned 18 that August, I was told I could become a waitress and start earning big money

Before she was on The Voice, married to Blake Shelton, or singing In No Doubt

Gwen Stefani was working at the Dairy Queen in Anaheim, California. She worked there with her older brother, Eric Stefani

and John Spence, two of the founding members of No Doubt. With Eric on keyboards and John singing

they started playing music together, and Eric brought in Gwen to the band

Following the death of John, Gwen became their lead singer. No Doubt has sold over 33 million records worldwide

all because of a band that started at Dairy Queen