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I wonder if Dick's Burgers in Seattle is having a tough time finding employees. Apparently you can make money and still pay people right with good benefits.

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You realize that restaurants are ultimately gimmicks, right?

As in - they get an initial boost of popularity from everyone telling their friends - "Hey, try this place it's really good!"....

And then ultimately they saturate, mature, and become your everyday typical restaurant.2

There's a reason why you haven't heard of Dicks. They aren't a successful business outside of their fad that will fade away unless appropriately capitalized.

Last I checked the failure rate of restaurants is astronomical in comparison to other industries, something to the tune of 45% in the first year, 35% the second, and 25% by the 3rd.
 
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MrSquished

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You realize that restaurants are ultimately gimmicks, right?

As in - they get an initial boost of popularity from everyone telling their friends - "Hey, try this place it's really good!"....

And then ultimately they saturate, mature, and become your everyday typical restaurant.2

There's a reason why you haven't heard of Dicks. They aren't a successful business outside of their fad that will fade away unless appropriately capitalized.

Last I checked the failure rate of restaurants is astronomical in comparison to other industries, something to the tune of 45% in the first year, 35% the second, and 25% by the 3rd.
You are fucking dumb. Dick's has been a staple in the Seattle area for 50 plus years. They aren't failing anytime soon.

No. Restaurants are not gimmicks. A gimmick is the chia pet, pet rocks or sea monkeys, not a place that can be in business for decades and are destinations for people to go spend their hard earned money not just on food, but sometimes an experience.

You have no clue what a food business is. The only gimmicky restaurants are like celebrity stuff like say a Margaritaville. Those are by far the exception, not the rule. And btw, go read about how well Jimmy Buffett's gimmicky empire is doing. They are killing it.

You have zero clue about anything. Most restaurants fail for any reason but they are a gimmick.

How's your electricity doing?
 
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You are fucking dumb. Dick's has been a staple in the Seattle area for 50 plus years. They aren't failing anytime soon.

No. Restaurants are not gimmicks. A gimmick is the chia pet, pet rocks or sea monkeys, not a place that can be in business for decades and are destinations for people to go spend their hard earned money not just on food, but sometimes an experience.

You have no clue what a food business is. The only gimmicky restaurants are like celebrity stuff like say a Margaritaville. Those are by far the exception, not the rule. And btw, go read about how well Jimmy Buffett's gimmicky empire is doing. They are killing it.

You have zero clue about anything. Most restaurants fail for any reason but they are a gimmick.

How's your electricity doing?

Agreed completely - like I said, they are a gimmick. Thanks for agreeing!

You don't even live In Seattle lol. They aren't killing it because no one has heard of it.
 

MrSquished

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Agreed completely - like I said, they are a gimmick. Thanks for agreeing!

You don't even live In Seattle lol. They aren't killing it because no one has heard of it.
Typo. Most restaurants fail for any reason but being a gimmick.

Dicks has like 7 locations. They are doing fine. Anyone opening a fast casual food joint would be thrilled to have a few solid locations being successful for decades, let alone 7 successful locations just pumping out product.

How the fuck are restaurants gimmicks by default. At this point it's like you double down on stupid.

The fact is you HATE that it is quite possible for a food business owner to make money but treat their employees well at the same time. It really grinds your gears that basic unskilled human labor can have actual value. This goes against all the values of your political party, the party of the blue collar worker. So when you lose that, you attack the entire concept of the restaurant business instead.

You are only happy if these workers are paid shit and treated like shit. Right wingers need basic labor being underpaid and treated poorly to be the norm so their desired model of the world stays the same. So this is really getting to you that places like Dick's are doing it. It potentially shows people that shit, business owners can be successful while treating their workers fairly. That scares the shit out of you.

What a sad evil person that makes you.
 
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What a sad evil person that makes you


Actually I'm beginning to wonder if he's just made up. :D ;)



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I didn't think it was possible to confuse capitalism for socialism, but here you go.... Amazing.

You are paid based on the value of your SKILLS - not the value of the output of product or services. Yes, if someone's skills cost more than the actual product is worth, then it obviously wouldn't make sense to hire that - and thus it would be fulfilled by other means such as automation, machines, programming, etc. etc.
Nope! Nobody in this country is being paid based on the value of their skill, not even you. Every single person is being paid by the value set by the market, and every company works to keep that market value at the lowest possible amount so they can increase their profit margin. It doesn't matter if you flip burgers, or you are top skilled rocket scientist, every single person is being under valued and under paid.

People like you set "skill" and "value" on a collage degree, which for the most part, except a very select group of careers, is only proof is you know how read, write, memorize, and pass tests, and has zero to do with skill, experience, or value. Many very skilled people in 1000's apon 1000's of professions have high school education with some not even that. And they are just as skilled if not more so than what you consider skilled, and they are just as underpaid if not more so than those with that piece of paper that says a person is book smart.

But that's okay, keep believing the perverbial lie you have been fed by conservative thinking.

Edit: spelling and autocorrect that wasn't correct, corrections.
 
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You realize that restaurants are ultimately gimmicks, right?

As in - they get an initial boost of popularity from everyone telling their friends - "Hey, try this place it's really good!"....

And then ultimately they saturate, mature, and become your everyday typical restaurant.2

There's a reason why you haven't heard of Dicks. They aren't a successful business outside of their fad that will fade away unless appropriately capitalized.

Last I checked the failure rate of restaurants is astronomical in comparison to other industries, something to the tune of 45% in the first year, 35% the second, and 25% by the 3rd.
You might want to go educate yourself on the restaurant industry because once again, you don't know what the fuck you are talking about. Restaurant are not a gimmick, restaurants operate on a 2% to 6% profit margins, and volume is the key to survival. The reason you see so many fail per year because idiots like you who don't have a clue about the industry believe it's easy money and easy to run a restaurant. That is why restaurants are the most business start ups every year and the most that fail every year. But of course as the idiot you are, you only look at the failures because you don't have the brain capacity to comprehend the complete picture.

Every business is built on reputation and building and maintains a customer base, including the company that was stupid enough to hire someone as dumb as you. Massive companies like Amazon, WalMart, etc are able to grow so large and keep prices down, thru volume and have a much larger profit margins to work with than the restaurant industry. Which also allows them more tolerance for mistakes before putting them out of business.

But thank you again for demonstrating how much you don't know and how stupid you really are about the restaurant industry and in business in general.
 
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I thought conservatives weren't elitists about education and are the party of just ordinary hardworking Americans? Don't you value the guys labor working long hours in a hot kitchen?

Obviously if this guy isnt happy about making 10 bucks hour he can go to Ruths Chris where chefs make 2-4 times that much. I mean, a cook is a cook right?
 

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Republicans love disrespecting working Americans while pretending to be their party. That guy does a job and adds more value to America than all of overpaid Republican PAC consultants combined, who have the gall to mock him and deem him unworthy of a decent living wage.

I wouldnt know. Ask a Republican.
 

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Republicans love disrespecting working Americans while pretending to be their party. That guy does a job and adds more value to America than all of overpaid Republican PAC consultants combined, who have the gall to mock him and deem him unworthy of a decent living wage.

As a father of a dyslexic child, I can say that simple spelling errors are the least of my worries, lol
 

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If I ever find myself in search of a high paying job, I'll avoid Tennessee.


Yeah. Only 64 jobs out of the most recent 10,000 are 100k+. But the TN job website is funky so who knows, this may be a rural area.

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Vic

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Sorry but it's supply and demand.If an employer can't find an employee they need, they got 2 choices 1) pay more 2) go without them. If jobs offer under 20k a year it means likely finding new employee's is not an issue.
Solid logic except that there's a labor shortage and employers are not finding employees at those wages. You're also overlooking the fact that many employers who pay below subsistence wages leverage their employees' ability to qualify for public assistance as a means to keep their wages low. Which means that keeping the minimum wage low is effectively a public subsidiary for those employers, but hey it's the libs who are the socialists amirite?
 
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Clearly this guy deserves 30k/year.

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As someone who has worked in corporate America for many years, I can affirm that that grammar is on par with, if not superior to, that of many people I have known who make well over $100k/yr.
 
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You realize that restaurants are ultimately gimmicks, right?

As in - they get an initial boost of popularity from everyone telling their friends - "Hey, try this place it's really good!"....

And then ultimately they saturate, mature, and become your everyday typical restaurant.2

There's a reason why you haven't heard of Dicks. They aren't a successful business outside of their fad that will fade away unless appropriately capitalized.

Last I checked the failure rate of restaurants is astronomical in comparison to other industries, something to the tune of 45% in the first year, 35% the second, and 25% by the 3rd.

WTF moron? Dicks has been in business since the 1950s, and is literally world famous. How in the holy fuck are you this stupid? Seriously.
 
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Ah yes, turning point.. the epitome of decency and unbiased news. Classic case of working backwards from a conclusion to fit a belief. I don't give a fuck if the person cooking a burger can spell or not as long as they can cook. Book smarts and actual talent don't need to be intertwined to justify fair wages.

I've made a prayer for you, Webdingus and EmptyMind:

"All hail the market god. May it look favorably upon me and bring wrath against those who I don't like. Let it be mercilessly neutral in how it treats my fellow humans as we are powerless to control it. Amen."

How was he supposed to know?!?!?!?

Did the clown link Yahoo yet again trying to play dumb about the actual source of bullshit he was eating and telling everyone else to take a bite of? Or did he just straight link to it thinking people didn't know what it was? And he thinks that playing stupid is somehow better than him repeatedly pulling this shit, wherein it just reinforces what a complete fucking dumbass he is? Which, I'd say its more 95/5 that he's actually that stupid with a 5% chance he thinks he's fooling anyone, but any which way, he's a fucking dumbshit.
 
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I thought conservatives weren't elitists about education and are the party of just ordinary hardworking Americans? Don't you value the guys labor working long hours in a hot kitchen?

It is amusing how many of the people linking that meme are also the type that brag about their stupidity basically constantly.

The two chucklefucks in this thread have repeatedly posted hilariously stupid news links then when people point and laugh they get pissed off and can't figure out why people consider them to be morons. You'd think they'd learn to vet their sources but instead they chose to seek ever dumber ones.