Community
30 August, 2024
A true Macca’s dad and sons
A LOCAL father of four, inspiring mentor and restaurant manager Denis Suman is celebrating 25 years of working with McDonald’s Cairns and with Father’s Day on Sunday is hoping his children will follow his path through the golden arches.
Mr Suman, from Smithfield, is the manager of 11 McDonald’s restaurants and 1500 crew in the Cairns region, having started back in 1998 he made his way up through the ranks through hard work and passion.
Now McDonald’s has become a family business with his partner and eldest son both working with the restaurant. He’s hoping all his sons experience the business and acquire the life skills his job has given him.
“I started in 1998 at the Smithfield Maccas when I was 15 or 16. By the time I was 20 I was running the restaurant, and I ran it for seven years,” Mr Suman said.
“I kept going through the ranks. We opened the Cairns city restaurant by 2011, then I got promoted to area manager and was looking after three restaurants – Earlville, Manoora and Cairns city – and the franchise kept growing in Cairns so I’m now the general manager of 11 restaurants.
“My son Brandon’s working in the kitchen and he’s learning with a lot of confidence the things I did when I was his age. It’s good to see a bit of cockiness about him, he probably thinks he’s better than me at that stage, but it’s a good thing, it’s a proud moment.
“I can see all my sons going through Maccas, it will provide them with life skills that they’ll carry with them for the rest of their lives, regardless of the career paths they decide to take.”
