Ariz. Burger King boss wins company award, sells car and watch, gives $120k to employees

[Newsjock]

Source: KTVK-TV

Burger King employees in Arizona were happy to hear their boss won the company's national "Franchisee of the Year" award. They never imagined that they, too, would reap some of the benefits.

Thanks to highly rated customer service reviews and corporate inspections, Barnett Management won the award for the company's 24 Burger King locations across the state. The company gave owner Tom Barnett a new Corvette and a Rolex watch.

... Barnett and the other franchise owners sold the car and watch, added more of their own money to the pot, and divided it up among their employees.

More than 100 Burger King employees received bonuses, which ranged from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. In all, they gave out $120,000 to the staff.

Read more: http://www.azfamily.com/video/featured-videos/Arizona-Burger-King-employees-receive-surprise-bonus-from-boss-292821981.html

[niyad]

1. would actually not mind giving that franchise group my custom.

"The award needed to go to the people who got us here. It was the right thing to do," franchise co-owner Shelley Krispin told 3TV. "We're all better when we have people who work for us long term."

Read more: http://www.azfamily.com/video/featured-videos/Arizona-Burger-King-employees-receive-surprise-bonus-from-boss-292821981.html#ixzz3SJLOYdAm

[ND-Dem]

2. Very nice gesture. But divide it by 24 locations, it's $5000/location. If each location averages 30

employees, it's <$200/employee.

So not that life-changing.

[Hekate]

3. At their very low wage level, sunshine, that money means a lot to them. nt

[ND-Dem]

32. I'm at that low wage level, sunshine. nice gesture, but not life-changing.

though apparently they didn't divide the money equally:

More than 100 Burger King employees received bonuses, which ranged from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars.

Charity Callahan, a 15-year employee, told 3TV. "It was almost an entire month's worth of pay for me.


Read more: http://www.azfamily.com/video/featured-videos/Arizona-Burger-King-employees-receive-surprise-bonus-from-boss-292821981.html#ixzz3SKxEkiev

[FSogol]

5. File under: "Nothing is ever good enough."

[Egnever]

9. Well..

Considering BK just bought a small Canadian company in order to hide their profits from US taxes I would say this is not nearly good enough.

I appreciate the individual owners nice gesture but BK as a whole can bite me.

[randys1]

26. This is a great topic, I hope many here at DU engage with this one...

An owner of 24 successful franchises is a very wealthy person.

Yet, there are people far more wealthy who would NOT reward their employees the way this guy did.

(their employees...my employees...all wrong, let me explain later or elsewhere why that terminology is more about owning people than anything else)

Back on topic.

Rewarding those you like and punishing those you dont, is something rightwing business-owners LIVE to do...in this case it seems he did not discriminate and rewarded equally, which is good.

The amount he is rewarding, if he has 24 successful franchises, is peanuts, but again, many in his position would tell his employees to blow him and they are lucky they have a job making enough money to be homeless.

The reason this is such a great topic is we can learn from ourselves where we fit in this dynamic.

I own the company therefore I will decide everything about everybody. you see I dont like that...myself

and why is this national news? Seems if you were doing it for the purely selfless reasons you would not want all this credit

Notice BK corp didnt even think of rewarding the people who actually did the work!

[ToxMarz]

6. A car and a watch to someone that owns 24 franchises

Is probably not that life changing either. Its all relative. There is value in nonmonetary rewards as well. Recognition, appreciation, shared achievement.

[B2G]

10. Reading is your friend

He doesn't own 24 franchises...he won out of the 24 up for it.

[Roland99]

11. Nope....

"Barnett Management won the award for the company's 24 Burger King locations across the state"

Barnett Management is the franchisee that won the award.

Barnett Management owns 24 Burger King locations across the state.


I think Burger King, overall, has more than 24 locations in ANY state!

[Fuddnik]

12. Probably not Alaska

Grizzles don't eat Whoppers.

[F4lconF16]

15. The other comment is correct; so far as I can tell, there are only 17 BKs in Alaska.

[Roland99]

18. Dash it all!

[ND-Dem]

37. here's 20; but the story is about BK in arizona, so what's the deal with alaska?

https://fastfoodmenuprice.com/burger-king-locations/alaska

[ND-Dem]

29. and tom barnett owns barnett management.

Barnett Management won the award for the company's 24 Burger King locations... The company gave owner Tom Barnett a new Corvette and a Rolex watch.

Read more: http://www.azfamily.com/video/featured-videos/Arizona-Burger-King-employees-receive-surprise-bonus-from-boss-292821981.html#ixzz3SKuZqCq7

[Major Nikon]

23. ...

[ND-Dem]

31. which is likely why he converted it to cash and gave it to employees.

[tazkcmo]

8. Wow.

Would you complain if your boss handed you 200 bucks for doing your job? I wouldn't, I'd say, "Thanks, boss!".

[ND-Dem]

30. did i complain? did i diss the owner? i don't think so.

[tazkcmo]

34. What ever gets you through the day. n/t

[ND-Dem]

35. notice you didn't answer the question though. just more snark.

[tazkcmo]

36. Look down thread

Look down thread, read the other responses to your sniveling about it's not being a life changing event and made up math, and pretend I said that stuff too. Saves me a lot of time.


I forgot this: Sunshine

[sharp_stick]

14. They added cash to the pot

after selling the car and watch.

His boss went a step further. Barnett and the other franchise owners sold the car and watch, added more of their own money to the pot, and divided it up among their employees.

In all, they gave out $120,000 to the staff.

[snooper2]

17. you started pretty good but you aren't doing it right anymore-

The next session is on the 24th, same time same bridge #

[Ms. Toad]

20. Nice of you to make lemons out of lemonade...

More than 100 Burger King employees received bonuses, which ranged from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars.

In all, they gave out $120,000 to the staff.

"I just couldn't believe it. I was in shock," Charity Callahan, a 15-year employee, told 3TV. "It was almost an entire month's worth of pay for me. They made us all feel appreciated."

http://www.azfamily.com/video/featured-videos/Arizona-Burger-King-employees-receive-surprise-bonus-from-boss-292821981.html#ixzz3SK3G9zBq

[TeamPooka]

22. So, you didn't read the article or the paragraphs in the OP, but felt you needed to weigh in

It says in the OP "More than 100 Burger King employees received bonuses, which ranged from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars."
So thanks for doing unnecessary math with numbers pulled from your ass to not make a valid point.

And no it's not life changing money, it's symbolic.
Their bosses took their bonus and passed it on to their employees. That has meaning.
But if it has to be life changing amounts to be considered nice to you, then you do not know how to place this in proper context.

[LanternWaste]

24. What leads you to believe 30 employees/location?

What leads you to believe 30 employees/location?

Although I do realize many half-wits like to pretend what's life-changing for other people and what isn't..

[NBachers]

27. You're welcome to throw more into the pot, if you'd like.

[Logical]

28. I expected someone to complain about this. You know he didn't need to do shit!!!! But he did! nt

[packman]

4. Now that's the way to do it-

give back to the people whose shoulders you were raised up on.

[lpbk2713]

7. Most managers would think *I deserve this because I'm a good manager*

It's an exceptional manager who thinks *I got this
because I have a lot of good people working for me*

[Stuart G]

21. I agree with you..good point..

[Brigid]

13. I think we now know why . . .

That franchisee won the award in the first place.

[cstanleytech]

19. Well if you treat all your employees fair your company will tend to do well

like Costco, if you treat them bad then you will end up like Kmart or Walmart.

[Arkana]

16. Nice to see some glimpse of humanity.

[Liberal_in_LA]

25. nice

[ohnoyoudidnt]

33. With all the stories of scumbag companies out there, it is nice to see stories like this.

Kudos to Barnett Management. We need more like them.

[Enthusiast]

38. +1