2024-06-11 The Story Behind the Smile: Eat'n Park

On June 11, 2024, Lynn McMahon presented to the Squirrel Hill Historical Society "The Story Behind the Smile: Eat'n Park." She is the author of the book of the same name.

The book relays how Eat’n Park Hospitality Group leaders have blended business savvy with a genuine concern for people to become one of the nation’s admired and successful businesses over the past 75 years. Storytelling is a significant thread in the fabric of Lynn’s professional life as an award-winning writer and public relations practitioner with Pipitone, an integrated marketing agency on the North Side. Like most Pittsburghers, Lynn’s relationship with Eat’n Park has spanned the various stages of her life from Big Boy balloons in her childhood, to strawberry milkshakes and onion rings after football games in her teenage years, to business breakfasts that continue today.