• Mango@lemmy.world
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    If your business can’t afford employees lives, your business sucks. Figure your shit out.

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      9 months ago

      your business sucks

      This is the exact problem and hardly anyone is talking about it. These sorts of restaurants had real simple recipes and food back when they started. You didn’t need the same kind of supply chain then that you need now, and when you throw the franchise services fees and royalties, what you end up with is exactly this.

      Contrasting this, there’s this hamburger wagon near where I live. It’s literally a wagon, serving slider style burgers and the dude refuses to give you anything but pickles, onion, salt, and pepper. He’s got a few drinks, some chip options, and that’s it. He has zero condiments or other toppings and serves nothing else. And you know what? He makes a fucking killing. Rain or shine, this wagon has a line of 10-15 people come lunch time and has plenty more come throughout the day. Only hires two people to work it.

      I’m sure he’s raised them before, but he hasn’t raised his prices once since I’ve been going there. 1.50 for a single or 3.00 for a double. Even crazier is the fact that it’s been there for over 100 years. Never turned it into a storefront, never tried to make it a franchise, never added to the menu really. Just always did what it did best, and its still insanely popular.

      Food for thought I guess.

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        Right?? It doesn’t take much capital for a single person to produce much more than they consume. If a business can’t figure out how to make one person worth their own salt AND profit, they’re just shit rent-seekers. If I can put a tool in your hand that makes you worth 5 people without that tool but I can’t profit, I’m a leech.

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    Six months or less before he’s closed up or bitching about lack of “quality”people

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    If your company doesn’t pay its employees a living wage or better, then your business model sucks and should collapse.

    Since anticompetitive practices and lobbying are the norm and the most profitable investments businesses can make, the whole capitalist system sucks and we should move towards socialized hamburger franchises.

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      all these greedy fucks balking at the idea of paying employees a living wage are short sighted fucking morons.

      You know what happens when employees get better pay?

      They spend more

      Which means your business will see more customers, and wil earn more

      That is, if your business isnt run by a myopic jackass who cant see beyond the his own personal and immediate greed. *-

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      Definitely, that will leave only one business model so it’ll be the best business model (cause there are no others, you know).

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      It seems strange to us, but vacation time isn’t something required by law. In fact, there are no federal requirements for companies to cover paid sick leave, either (some states have them).

      Those things mostly came about as a way for companies to attract and retain employees, and because of union negotiations.

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        I assume you’re talking about this being the case in the US, because in many other countries things like annual leave, sick leave etc. are absolutely mandated by legislation or national standards.

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      Just have no faith and you will stop asking these questions.

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        I meant to ask if it isn’t illegal or something like that?

        Around here one could get a nice pay out of it by suing. So much that company even thinks about it.

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          Paid time off is not a guaranteed/protected benefit in the US. Even getting paid for the hours you work is lightly protected.

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      Vacation leave is not paid but its still a cost to the business because they have to go through the process of finding another worker.

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    The guy is giving people no reason to spend their money there: raise prices and treat your employees like an inconvenience?

    No thanks. I’ll support a more ethical business.

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    I think this would be a good time for people to on mass leave google maps reviews with references to this article and the owners greed. Make everyone who searches for Fatburger see that they don’t treat their employees with basic decency and respect.

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    A guy named Marcus Walberg that owns a few burger stores…

    People that don’t read closely are going to have a field day with this.

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    What did employees have to do to survive on the meager wages? It’s always about the employers, but employees are left having to figure things out on their own, with much fewer resources at their disposal.

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    None of the service minded people will be jumping ship lol. Earning california minimum wage plus tips is better than a fast food $20. Non front of house might try and jump over, but they aren’t the service minded people he talks about and the “teens” he claims to worry about can just take those open casual dining jobs or casual dining can just raise their pay for back of house until they can keep workers. What a nonce.

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    Me: Hi there, I’d like to apply for a loan for a new restaurant.

    Bank: Okay, so you have a business plan?

    Me: Yes, here it is.

    Bank: Hmm… it says here under employee compensation, “slaves LOL” - what does that mean?

    Me: Oh, haha, I’m gonna pay them pretty much nothing.

    Bank: …get out of my bank.

    Why do we accept shitty business plans that would otherwise get laughed at?

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      if you could show the bank you could get away with it they would be more than happy to fund you