Truly a great loss for the culinary world.
Doesn’t make it right.
And if this were a small time Mom and Pop operation, I might be more understanding of this practice, but this is a woman who has and continues to earn millions of dollars. She could certainly have afforded whatever minor inconveniences came with informing her employees that they were about to be out of a job.
And when it happened to you, were you happy about it, or were you at least surprised, and probably a bit pissed off?
Truly a great loss to the butter industry.
It’s doubtful that those employees didn’t suspect something. If the food and supply orders were tapering off, the experienced restaurant workers had to have known that there was at least going be a serious layoff. AFter all, you do need food to run a restaurant.
Deen is an idiot. Had she simply addressed this matter,apologized and acted contrite (even if she didn’t ***feel ***contrite) this eventually would have blown over. However, her insistence on having her children defend and her tone deafness as to the media storm which surrounded her seems to have made this inevitable.
I know right. How dare she do something that every restuarant owner in the history of forever has done. What a bitch. I’m never eating her brand of butter ever again.
Yeah, it really doesn’t take a whole lot to keep your employees from leaving en masse. I have a friend who owned a grill and pub. When he shut down, he was upfront with everybody about it and he offered bonuses to anyone who agreed to stay til the closing date.
Fuck that noise. Just because all restauranteurs are apparently douchebags doesn’t make the fact that said douchebaggery is standard operating procedure any less douchebaggy.
A local Hooters did this a couple of years ago - the employees found out via text. I know the posts above say this is commonplace, but that’s not what I’ve heard from local folks in food service.
I kind of miss that place - it was convenient, and the staff was always courteous, even if I did suspect that meth use was rampant through the place.
Truly a great loss for the Lipitor industry.
A Pizza Hut where I used to live did this, and the employees found out when they showed up for work and there was a note posted on the (locked) door. At least with a text, they knew not to bother to come in. (Not that that excuses it…)
I never said it was right, just not that uncommon. And no I wasn’t pissed off, I was working in the restaurant every damn day - there were signs. There are always signs.
And often it’s not evil, so much as delusion. Often they really are convinced the bank/partner/investors are going to pony up more cash. They are too invested to see the truth, convinced it just CAN’T all be over. Even to the last second.
Friends of mine whose word I trust absolutely were in a restaurant- a chain restaurant at that (Buffalo Wild Wings)- that closed in the middle of the shift while diners were eating. The manager made the announcement, those with food were allowed to finish (some servers remained for that last tip), everybody else had to leave, as did most of the employees.
I’m surprised that a chain restaurant would allow such unprofessionalism. Was this a franchise or a company store? I’d think this would be unimaginable in a company store and perplexing in a franchise - how are you saving any money by closing in the middle of a shift? Is the sheriff there closing down the restaurant in mid-repast?
ETA: I realize that finding out the franchise/company store answer is probably not going to happen - excuse the impertinence.
I knew people that were at the airport on board a plane waiting to take off when the pilot came on the PA system and informed them that everyone would have to leave the plane because the airline had ceased operations and the flight was cancelled.
I guess it’s a good thing they hadn’t taken off yet.
Not quite. We told our employees as soon as we knew we were not going to sign the new lease.
My father and stepmother went on a cruise to Mexico that left from Tampa, FL. Part of the trip included a stay in Mexico and then return to the ship to go back to Tampa. When they got back to the dock the ship was gone. The company had gone out of business and the crew had left in the ship.
I used to go to a gym that knew for a couple of months that they were going to close although at least one of the partners was trying to find a way to keep it open. They sold annual memberships up until they day they closed.
A gas station in my town just closed. The employee on duty found out when the company sent people to take the cash and paperwork and lock the doors.
You joke but they would have been worse off. There was an article in the paper the next day talking about what happened. It said that flights that were in the air continued to their destination but no more flights were talking off.
Now the people I knew were taking off from a small regional airport. Everyone using this airport was local and was able to at least go back home from the airport. But if their flight had taken off and flown to the next airport in their itinerary it most likely would have been some hub rather than their final destination. So they would have ended up getting dumped several hundred miles away from both their home and the place they had wanted to fly to.