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Backlash Against Wendy’s, Taco Bell Franchisees for Cutting Hours and Blaming Obamacare
Media Bistro ^ | January 9, 2013 12:11 PM | By Elizabeth S. Mitchell

Posted on 01/09/2013 3:57:44 PM PST by drewh

Backlash Against Wendy’s, Taco Bell for Cutting Hours and Blaming Obamacare By Elizabeth S. Mitchell on January 9, 2013 12:11 PM

Few things grab the public’s attention like a celebrity-backed boycott, protest, or backlash against a specific brand or company. Today, Wendy’s and Taco Bell find themselves on the wrong end of just this sort of upheaval.

Roughly 100 Wendy’s employees in the Omaha, Nebraska area will have their weekly schedules reduced to 28 hours a week so that they will no longer qualify for the health care benefits that “Obamacare” mandates for full-time employees. A Taco Bell in Guthrie, Oklahoma enacted a similar policy.

Even though these underhanded approaches seem unique to these specific franchises, the backlash against the Wendy’s and Taco Bell corporations has been swift.

Celebrities like Castle star Nathan Fillion and comedian Sarah Silverman voiced their outrage via Twitter, and many people pledged to avoid not just those specific locations, but all restaurants owned by the chains in question.

(Excerpt) Read more at mediabistro.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Nebraska; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: abortion; deathpanels; guthrie; nathanfillion; nebraska; notalenthacks; obamacare; obamarecession; oklahoma; omaha; sarahsilverman; tacobell; twitter; wendys; zerocare
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To: drewh

When will there be a backlash against the entertainment industry for supporting a government that undermines the Constitution?


21 posted on 01/09/2013 4:15:15 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: Keen-Minded

When these cuts businesses make to survive the government go into full swing, the left is going to have to boycott everywhere.


22 posted on 01/09/2013 4:16:57 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: drewh

Liberals are mostly quiet in Texas but knowing even fewer will be out and about in places I go would thrill me! I guess they need to eat in soup kitchens to avoid folks wanting to make money off their businesses.


23 posted on 01/09/2013 4:20:45 PM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (The DNC loves abortion so much they will now be called the D&C)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

Dang! I loved that show “Castle”...not anymore...I can’[t watch movies or shows once the stars come out with Lib stuff. I don’t see their TV character anymore, just a reminder of their Lib outbursts. It ruins the show or movie for me.
I will, of course take time to let ‘Castle’s” sponsors and station know WHY I won’t be watching anymore.


24 posted on 01/09/2013 4:21:27 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (Go Galt!)
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To: windsorknot

The PERFECT solution. Issue a press release that says they are NOT going to be cutting hours. Hurray. BUT that dollar menu you love? Sorry we can’t afford to only charge that anymore.instead of 2 tacos for a $1; it’s now $6. Instead of a Big Mac Meal costing $5 it will now be $12. Watch the liberal kneejerks mouths drop to the floor. Stick it to ‘em hard. Meanwhile special lowered pricing for conservatives and Tea Party members if you know the special code...LOL


25 posted on 01/09/2013 4:21:48 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: From The Deer Stand

” Typical Liberals”

They are pathetic.

The words “boycott” and “racism” are tossed around so much by the libs they have become words without meaning.

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26 posted on 01/09/2013 4:23:06 PM PST by Mears
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To: drewh

Nathan Fillion is Canadian. They love telling Americans how to live.


27 posted on 01/09/2013 4:25:44 PM PST by Varda
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

Perhaps soon the social status of actors will revert to what it was in ancient Rome. (We can hope.)

“THE IGNOBLE POSITION OF ROMAN ACTORS”
http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/bellinger001.html


28 posted on 01/09/2013 4:25:44 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: drewh; mickie
Nobody "celebrities" that most people haven't heard of are busy these days sticking their oars into all sorts of political and cultural controversies.....hoping to be noticed.

Another subset of nobodies are obscure "Republican strategists" who abound on TV shows and obscure TV "political consultants" who also are nobodies.

These nobodies bear important-sounding titles just like obscure "celebrities" do.....but the titles are generally self-applied or applied by their agents to hide the fact that the obscure bearers don't have steady jobs or are out of work completely.

Leni

29 posted on 01/09/2013 4:26:08 PM PST by MinuteGal (Send a penny NOW to CNN, 1 Time-Warner Center, NY, NY 10019 for "PENNIES FOR LEAVIN!" (Piers Morgan))
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To: drewh
hell with the bell... but i think i'll get a Wendyburger and some chili next time i pass one
30 posted on 01/09/2013 4:26:57 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: YankeeReb
Ironically, McDonald's profits were down this year, so they were open on Christmas Day.

Not sure why that would be in this Obama recovery and all, but who am I to question my betters? They tell me Obama is just super.

31 posted on 01/09/2013 4:26:57 PM PST by boop ("You don't look so bad, here's another")
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To: drewh

Sarah Who? Nathan Who?

I need a Taco and a Burger.


32 posted on 01/09/2013 4:32:30 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel (Have a wonderful day!)
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To: Varda

Ya, I do love telling people how to live... free. Armed, free speech, free of government invasion into daily life, I love telling people that, it really annoys other Canadians.


33 posted on 01/09/2013 4:35:54 PM PST by Bulwyf
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To: drewh
Celebrities like Castle star Nathan Fillion and comedian Sarah Silverman...

Who?

34 posted on 01/09/2013 4:38:42 PM PST by COBOL2Java (kak-is-toc-ra-cy: Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens. See: GOP-e)
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To: drewh

Heh. I ate at Taco Bell and Wendy’s this month. Saw they were advertising for part time workers.


35 posted on 01/09/2013 4:45:14 PM PST by RginTN
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To: drewh

Wow, libs just can’t take responsibility for their actions, and the consequences thereof.


36 posted on 01/09/2013 4:45:52 PM PST by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: drewh

Phhhttt! Liberals on a rampage. Taco Bell will be shutting down any day now.


37 posted on 01/09/2013 4:45:52 PM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: RginTN

Just got back from Wendy’s — used coupon for free homestyle chicken sandwich when you buy a fry and drink. It was very good.


38 posted on 01/09/2013 4:51:44 PM PST by steve86 (Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
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To: drewh
....Castle star Nathan Fillion and comedian Sarah Silverman....

I don't know or care who Nathan Fillion is, and only vaguely think I know who comedian Sarah Silverman is.... but to both of them or any other "celebrities" who are now against Wendys or Taco Bell, I say to them... F__K OFF and TOO LATE! The business reaction to 0dumb0shitCare is for businesses to layoff & downsize in order to remain both cost & profit competitive! Good job leftie celebrity dorks!!! You're taking it in the ass again!

I think I will go out for a Wendy's burger now followed by a Taco Bell!

39 posted on 01/09/2013 4:55:15 PM PST by rcrngroup
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To: drewh

If this keeps up, liberals will run out of places to eat. Restaurants must all be run by evil people. /s


40 posted on 01/09/2013 5:03:23 PM PST by Crucial (Tolerance at the expense of equal treatment is the path to tyranny.)
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