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http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/11/09/1173181/applebees-ceo-obamacare/i wonder how he would like it if his franchise value went to zero
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)you can't serve customers without staff. Face, say good by to nose. it's all spite.
They are probably not full time workers anyway. I would think that most health costs would be reduced because of Obama Care.
WCGreen
(45,558 posts)Who Knew!!
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)WCGreen
(45,558 posts)closed...
God their food is horrible.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Locrian
(4,522 posts)Reese Bobby: Yep, I guess things are just about perfect... it's making me feel kind of itchy...
Ricky Bobby: How 'bout we go get kicked out of an Applebee's?
Susan: How does one get thrown out of an Applebee's?
Ricky Bobby: You're about to find out.
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)I feel cheated that I can't say "I'll never eat there again."
Tired of all these tealosers crying and taking their ball home. Their patriotism is directly related to the amount of cash in their wallets. They continue to prove to us that they care shit about their employees or the rest of the population.
They can shove their minimum wage jobs up their collective asses.
BlueMan Votes
(903 posts)rzemanfl
(29,567 posts)but put a tip on the table and leave.
retread
(3,763 posts)dem4ward
(323 posts)They are buying into this Doom & Gloom conspiracy theory of the Repuke party. These CEO's are not thinking about future consequences of their "claims". I'd bet that any company that goes on record saying that they won't hire or they'll fire or layoff workers will suffer. These actions will bite them in the ass big time just like 2012 did to the tea pary. Wait and see!
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)The spinach and artichoke dip used to be safe, but they switched to a chicken broth base about six years ago. Besides, the beer is fucking expensive.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Red Lobster and Olive Garden are off my list ... Thanks Darden.
Hey didn't Darden have a Black CEO a couple years (maybe 10) back?
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)BainsBane
(53,056 posts)I didn't even need a political reason to avoid that place.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,211 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,485 posts)not to the chain as a whole.
aletier_v
(1,773 posts)and I wasn't comfortable eating around sick people.
Incitatus
(5,317 posts)That's all the reason I need
tableturner
(1,683 posts)He'll hire them when the business volume grows to the point that the present staff can no longer provide good service. He can say anything he wants now, but as business conditions get better and his business increases, he will hire however many people it takes for him to continue to please his customers.
As an offshoot of my logic, I submit that a rational business owner would never say or execute the following plan, in spite of what the GOP says:
"Well......people are having to wait too long for tables and their food, the food is not being consistently prepared properly, our customers in general are not being attentively serviced, and they are grumbling about all of this a lot, but because I do not want to provide health insurance to my employees, I will allow the appalling conditions in my restaurant to continue, and thus cause people to give their business to my competitors instead. I will truly enjoy not paying for health insurance as I watch my business fail. Not paying for health insurance is such a great thing to me that it more than makes up for the failure of my business."
This relates well to the argument over raising taxes on what the GOP says are "job creators". They continue to make the argument that these wealthy job creators will not invest more money in existing businesses, nor invest to create new ones, until they are sure of future tax policy and/or be rid of Obamacare.
That is such bunk! No matter the tax policy at a point in time, if, for example, supermarket checkout and deli lines are getting disturbingly long, the supermarket owner will hire the help necessary to avoid losing business. On the other side of the coin, even if the tax policies in place at a point in time are considered by them to be "ideal", if the public is not spending a lot of money, meaning business stays slow, they will not hire extra help.
If new subdivisions develop and existing ones expand, as they have in the past, and most certainly will in the future, when the population is large enough to support a supermarket, the supermarket company will put a store there, regardless of existing tax policies. The GOP would have us believe that the supermarket owner would instead say:
"Even though the area would profitably support one of my stores, because of the tax policies now in place (or Obamacare), I will not develop the store, thereby forgoing future profits, plus I will allow a competitor to secure the great location I had picked out, which happens to be the last of the area's prime locations, so I will be locked out of that market area forever. However, the pleasures I derive from protesting the current tax policy (or Obamacare) more than make up for the loss of business I will suffer if I decide not to develop the store."
This CEO is downright lying, and is knowingly doing so, in an effort to make a political point. No matter what he says, he doesn't believe that garbage, but he thinks that you and I are so stupid that we would believe total nonsense!
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)RomneyLies
(3,333 posts)ReRe
(10,597 posts)... his employees just said "take-this-job-and-shove-it," and walked out?
All this employer backlash needs to be dealt with here and now:
The Universal Health Care Act of 2013
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)bluestate10
(10,942 posts)jsmirman
(4,507 posts)Dear CEO: your food sucks. That is your real problem.
Raine
(30,540 posts)Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)$12.00 for a stupid hamburger. It was JUST a hamburger. I can make a much better one at home for about 1/12th of that.