A man who's been having breakfast at McDonald's almost every day for 36 years went to the chain for his 100th birthday

• A centenarian has been having breakfast at McDonald's almost every day for 36 years.
• The West Virginia resident and WWII veteran went to the chain with friends to celebrate his 100th birthday.

A man from West Virginia who served during World War II celebrated his 100th birthday at McDonald's on Friday.

Zan White has been having breakfast at the McDonald's in Elkins almost every day for 36 years as part of a group he set up that's been dubbed the ROMEO Club, an abbreviation for Retired Old Men Eating Out, he told local TV station WDTV. He often dines there with a group of about a dozen friends.

White told the station that he wasn't sure why he'd lived so long but didn't plan to change his habits as he got older.

"I've been coming here for 36 years; I can't stop now," he said.

White served as a radar repairman during World War II. Apart from this, he's spent his whole life living in Elkins, close to the state's borders with Maryland and Virginia.

"I've seen Zan every morning pretty much for the 24 years I've been working; it's a joy to see him every morning, it's one of the highlights of my day," Marc Godwin, a McDonald's area supervisor, told WDTV.