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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on October 05, 2011, 11:31:21 AM
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A restaurant chain I hadn't heard of until now--Friendly's--is going tits-up.
LiberalEsto (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-05-11 01:33 PM
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8. Good riddance
Slowest. worst service ever.
I suspect they paid their employes next to nothing.
Lack of spending is apparently a jobs killer.
Renew Deal (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-05-11 02:23 PM
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13. And now that they will pay their employees literally nothing you are happy.
OK
Dreamer Tatum (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-05-11 03:00 PM
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17. You SUSPECT they paid poorly, so GOOD RIDDANCE that there are NO jobs?
Asshole. Seriously: you're an asshole.
Beacool (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-05-11 03:20 PM
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19. You are happy that so many people will lose their jobs?
As for the low wages, I don't know how much they pay, but I saw the same wait staff at the Friendly's I used to go to for years.
david_vincent (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-05-11 01:38 PM
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9. This is karma
Friendly's treats their workforce like shit, and word gets around. My wife and I have been boycotting Friendly's for 2 or 3 years now. I hope the MBAs who are in "control" of Friendly's have heard that lots of people have been refusing to patronize their restaurants because of their decision to treat their employees as if they aren't even human.
Karma: it hates hourly-waged employees.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x5016515#5016570
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Have they considered that the employees didn't get payed well due to bad attitudes that hurt business? Just sayin'.
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A restaurant chain I hadn't heard of until now--Friendly's--is going tits-up.
Lack of spending is apparently a jobs killer.
Karma: it hates hourly-waged employees.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x5016515#5016570
That's a liberal for you: willing to sacrifice thousands of hourly employees to get to one MBA.
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Have they considered that the employees didn't get payed well due to bad attitudes that hurt business? Just sayin'.
Waiters and waitresses make a minimum wage, but the bulk of their pay comes from tips. Poor service means fewer tips and more importantly a lot less repeat customers.
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I'm pretty familiar with restaurants inner workings. Wait staff gets minimum wage, their money is in the tips. Cook staff gets pretty good wages if they work hard and have skills. The time I'm familiar with was the late 90s-early 2000s and the average cook staff was getting $12-15/hr.
My guess is that Friendly's is just another victim of the 0bama-socialist democrat economy. Fewer people are eating out. Friendly's probably catered to a market segment that have been squeezed by high gas prices, high utility prices, high food prices, and maybe even one wage earner losing their job.
How is that hope and change working out for the middle class?
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Waiters and waitresses make a minimum wage, but the bulk of their pay comes from tips. Poor service means fewer tips and more importantly a lot less repeat customers.
You're right. So if they don't make as much in tips as the staff in the restaurant down the street, who is to blame?
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Waiters and waitresses make a minimum wage, but the bulk of their pay comes from tips. Poor service means fewer tips and more importantly a lot less repeat customers.
Depending on state law, many employers are permitted to pay waitstaff a sub-minimum wage that is 50% of the state minimum, usually about $4.35 an hour. Some of those servers make more per week than the people cooking the food they're serving, and their wages are usually enough to cover the taxes on what they earn in tips.
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david_vincent (1000+ posts) Wed Oct-05-11 01:38 PM
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9. This is karma
Friendly's treats their workforce like shit, and word gets around. My wife and I have been boycotting Friendly's for 2 or 3 years now. I hope the MBAs who are in "control" of Friendly's have heard that lots of people have been refusing to patronize their restaurants because of their decision to treat their employees as if they aren't even human.
Well done Komrade. Your daily ration will be increased by .1%.
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Depending on state law, many employers are permitted to pay waitstaff a sub-minimum wage that is 50% of the state minimum, usually about $4.35 an hour. Some of those servers make more per week than the people cooking the food they're serving, and their wages are usually enough to cover the taxes on what they earn in tips.
That was why I said " a minimum wage" instead of minimum wage. It varies from state to state, but the feds do set a minimum wage for people that get tips, with some states mandating higher minimums.
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The one we have in town in still going to operate, according to the local news. The same thing happened with Ponderosa; they still operate while under reorganization.
I do think its troubles stem from this economy. It's the sort of place you'd take your kid for his birthday. Burgers & fries & ice cream. $10 per person or so. I can see many families just not being able to swing that, and hit the McDonald's instead.