My Popeyes 8 piece jumbo shrimp combo UPDATED with Popeye's reply
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The only place I have ever been where the food looked like the pictures was back in Japan in the 90s. The McDonalds burgers and food looked exactly like the pictures. The employees other than being Japanese looked like they were out a 1950s Norman Rockwell picture. Clean, tidy, tight giglines and the paper triangle ice cream man’s hat on. The places were spotless. Difference in work pride and ethic for sure.
Anyone that expects a livable wage working at a fast food joint has made multiple bad life choices. Fast food joints have been predominantly operated by teenagers or college kids since their inception.
Pride and work ethic, lack of parenting and discipline; definitely plays a part.
A place opened in Wichita Falls, The Catch, this last spring. We were close by and decided to try. They have fried catfish, shrimp and alligator. They set up in an old Burger King. Go to counter and order. Prices are sit down and service plus. Take our seat and wait. And wait. And wait. And wait. Girl (college student, maybe) finally brings orders. Plastic weave hamburger baskets. Sets a basket of BLACK CHARCOAL BRIQUETS on the table. I look and ask, "what is that?"
Hush puppies, she answered nonchalantly.
Wif says, loudly, "I would be embarrassed to serve that crap!"
Girl snickers and walks off.
The fish was good, the shrimp was boxed, frozen, the alligator was good.
We were almost finished and a manager wandered through, asking how everything was. He got an earful, not from just Wif.
We got up to leave and girl came to clear table. She calls out, "look ANOTHER non-tipper."
Wif yelled back, "you got what you deserved."
We haven't been back. That alligator was good, too.
A place opened in Wichita Falls, The Catch, this last spring. We were close by and decided to try. They have fried catfish, shrimp and alligator. They set up in an old Burger King. Go to counter and order. Prices are sit down and service plus. Take our seat and wait. And wait. And wait. And wait. Girl (college student, maybe) finally brings orders. Plastic weave hamburger baskets. Sets a basket of BLACK CHARCOAL BRIQUETS on the table. I look and ask, "what is that?"
Hush puppies, she answered nonchalantly.
Wif says, loudly, "I would be embarrassed to serve that crap!"
Girl snickers and walks off.
The fish was good, the shrimp was boxed, frozen, the alligator was good.
We were almost finished and a manager wandered through, asking how everything was. He got an earful, not from just Wif.
We got up to leave and girl came to clear table. She calls out, "look ANOTHER non-tipper."
Wif yelled back, "you got what you deserved."
We haven't been back. That alligator was good, too.
Eat local if you want value. But I mean cmon..... you paid $7.... what'd ya expect lol.
Did that shrimp come out of Lake Hefner?
And strangely enough, the Mexican joints I frequent (low-buck taco places) have had the same faces there for twenty years in some places. Can't speak much English, work their butts off and get tips.
Low-life fast food corporations pay crap, no tips, executives fly in private jets. Not with my money, though...
I’ve seen the two examples that you mentioned. Kind of different financial plans though.
Like our fearless leader Bumbling Beijing Biden would say, come on man
One, a franchise that is usually bought buy an aspiring entrepreneur putting up some collateral and taking out a loan for a business hiring outsiders as in young adults that have little experience working.
The franchises have contracts and obligations to fill with the parent organization. Sure. Plus lots of overhead. The average guy that owns one or two fast food franchise’s, we could probably agree isn’t going to be flying on a private jet or making the big bucks. That describes the majority of franchises.
The other tends to be family run and owned. There’s a chance everybody’s living under the same roof and splitting the bills. Being family run there’s a good chance of a lot of the income is not being declared. Also probably not flying on that private jet.
I don’t think a lot of these entrepreneur franchises are big-time CEOs with private jets.
People can choose to work wherever they want. Some places do tips and some don’t. There’s a lot of crappy tippers out there. I had a family member that worked for a restaurant. That’s how the person helped pay for their way going through college. Said person was happy if they average 10% tips throughout the night. For every good tipper there’s a lot of crappy tippers if they even tip at all. Not to mention a lot of places that do take Tipps have to split with the bus people and the cooks. Then the tipps shrink even more.
So like I said, if a person stays in a fast food or dinning career field, for the most part they’ve made some bad life choices
That looks really lame…
Most franchise owners are your next-door neighbors. Not flying on private jets, probably not even driving new cars. Their costs continue to go up, same difficulties in hiring good employees as any other business, same supply chain issues, just mediocre revenues, but they are living the American dream. I try to buy from franchise stores and businesses instead of the corporate owned ones.
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