Posted on 06/28/2014 9:20:47 AM PDT by BulletBobCo
Edited on 06/28/2014 9:28:34 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
VENICE, FL (CNN) " A 73-year-old veteran says he was fired from a Cracker Barrel restaurant for giving a needy man a few condiment packets and a corn muffin.
He admits it was against the restaurants rules, but says he thinks it was the right thing to do.
(Excerpt) Read more at fox17.com ...
It is interesting to google their various PR blunders. We live in the internet age and corporations have got to get more savvy. 3,000 negative responses on Facebook is not helpful to their bottom line. Obviously, if the employee had been caught red-handed stealing large amounts of food or money, this would not have been a story. What made it a story was mayonnaise packets and a couple of corn muffins and a homeless individual. Throw in an elderly man who was a Viet Nam vet and you’ve got trouble in River City.
Half the people eating at these slop joints are leftist, liberal, illegals, and most the establishments and McWhopper franchises are now owned by Muslims, people from the Mideast, India, China, Pakistan, etc...
I simply choose not to dine with them or give them any more of my money...
How about if he was told when he was hired that if he did that, he would be fired? In that case, how many reprimands should an employee get before he is let go?
LMAO-I guess every parent tells kids not to waste food because people are starving somewhere-we told our cub it was Bangladesh, because it was on the news...
As kids, we gathered the eggs every morning, careful not to break any while sometimes getting the crap pecked out of us by an angry hen or two, so having to eat them several mornings in a row sort of took the fun out of decorating the empty shells and filling them with confetti. Easter was one of the few occasions that we got to have candy-my family is very health conscious...
Sorry Tex...caught stealing some 5 times, I think CB was more than patient.
I haven’t seen one response on FB from the company. In fact, the employee’s family has now chimed in to talk about their father - in a way that makes him out to be the Mother Teresa of America, lol! And the witty and scathing remarks following CB’s endless postings of promotional stuff (including photos of corn muffins!) are certainly a PR nightmare. Where’s Howard Rubenstein when you need him??!
Yes, indeed-it would probably be helpful for them to change the strategy-starting with engaging their brain before creating an incident...
I don’t remember the specifics but if I recall correctly people of color and gay people don’t frequent Cracker Barrel.
I wonder if they’ll throw the poor manager who fired him under the bus. But, honestly, they need to stop posting photos of corn muffins on facebook. It makes them look stupid.
The eatery was correct to fire him. He’s too softhearted to hold that job for long term. Too bad they couldn’t offer him a part time position doing Quality Control; inventory, safety checks, code compliance type thing.
I don’t care what their policy is-they can do whatever they like-I’m pointing out that it was a mistake to think it would not play badly with so many-most of us certainly relate more to a person fired for giving muffins to a homeless person than some chain restaurant with a cutesy name that has awful PR and mediocre food. That is not a good thing for a business that probably wants customers to keep coming there.
The people posting disparaging remarks on their Facebook page are probably not their regular customers. The kind of people who eat at CB are generally overweight, elderly Midwesterners. The kind of people who would freak out enough to scream at them on Facebook are emotion-driven liberals. Starbucks people.
He deserved to be fired-—it’s happened five times w/o termination.
Playing the veteran card is as bad as playing the race card.
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You’re soooooo heartless, LOL!
What is with the muffins, anyway? It does look stupid-and the ones I make look better, too...
Old and veteran is not relevant to this story. “Generosity” with other peoples stuff is a very democrat thing. The stupidity was compounded here as this dude wasn’t even running for office. If he wanted to be generous he could have bought the items for the beggar.
Well, that makes sense to me-I got roped into going there for lunch a year ago by someone I work with and will never go back-tasteless food served by someone devoid of customer service skills-I don’t think my choice reflects my ethnicity, though.
They probably didn’t expect it to “play” at all. People get fired every day, with food services turn this restaurant probably fires somebody every couple of weeks. Most of them don’t become news stories. Now they’re in a bad position, firing the guy was the right move, he broke hard and fast rules, apparently multiple times, but the whiners are whining, so they’ll probably throw a bunch of money at some charity to get a bit of good press before the crowds move on to something else the way they always do.
They did that, it did happen again, so they quietly fired his dumb ass. Then he made it unquiet. This modern age of people running to the press and the internet every time they do something stupid has really gotten annoying. It’s the most basic way reality is supposed to work, break the rules, face the consequences. Don’t give away food is a basic rule of restaurants, but this guy figured out that because he’s old and a veteran and he gave it to a homeless guy the sympathy of the masses would cut everybody’s IQ in half and they’d all take his side. Even though he’s a moron giving away stuff that doesn’t belong to him in violation of clear rules and drawing homeless people to the restaurant like stray dogs. He should have been fired after the first offense, forget trying to be nice, he’s old enough to know better. Apparently old enough to spot a playable system.
Guess you don’t do much Facebook. Most of the people chiming in are veteran families. Of course, they could be lying but they use their real names on FB, unlike here. Facebook is considered liberal but there are thousands of conservatives on it. Maybe hundreds of thousands. A lot of people are complaining about the Duck Dynasty fiasco which leads me to believe they really are conservatives. (Of course, libs are chiming in, too.)
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