Posted on 06/09/2012 7:16:28 AM PDT by kevcol
Priti Shetty, an Indian-American from Montville, alleges that a Dunkin’ brand rep told her she was not "servile enough" as an Indian woman.
Shetty says the company tried to force her to keep her stores in the Oak Ridge section of Jefferson and Wantage open for 24 hours even thought she showed that doing so would be a money loser when expenses where factored in.
She also claims that Dunkin Donuts refused to let her open a third store in the Stockholm section of Hardyston
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If you show your bosses that the store opening would be a money loser and they STILL tell you to open it, you open it
It’s their money to lose, you may be wrong, and either way one of you is going to learn something valuable.
If you show your bosses that the store opening would be a money loser and they STILL tell you to open it, you open it
It’s their money to lose, you may be wrong, and either way one of you is going to learn something valuable.
It sounds like she was a franchise owner, not just an employee.
Her problem is, she’s Priti Shetty to everyone...
I got the impression she owned the stores via franchise in which case it is her money. That pretty sh!tty of them to so that.
Whata country...
We had a local community college administrator named Flamingo Brown who tried suing the college for racial discrimination when they refused to hire several staff members for her office.
Joe Biden said you can’t go into a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. He said he wasn’t kidding about that!!
No, they were probably looking at what was best for corporate, which in a franchise situation is appropriate so long as they were abiding by the terms of the franchise contract.
Keeping convienience stores and fast food restaurants open late is often a money loser for individual stores. But it also builds strong brand loyalty. If you are out late and hungry, and the only place open is a McDonalds, you’ll be more likely to eat at McDonalds during the daytime.
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The CEO of Dunkin Donuts is a big Obama supporter and has already maxed out his contribution limit this year.
Sirry Mongorians.
Isn't that what snork55 said? The money is hers. Corporate takes a percentage of sales and a monthly franchise fee. Operating costs are all on the franchisee so all losses come from her pocket. That's how franchises usually work.
In a fair world, corporate would recognize this as an advertizing expense and offer the individual franchisees enough money from their advertizing budget to break even during the off hours that it requires them to be open.
I had an Indian boss who went to great lengths to hide his first name, Ashita. He was a good boss.
Has Arnold Schwarzenegger ever shouted “racial discrimination”? Just wondering.
Accusations of “racist” and “discrimination” have been so overworked that they have become a national joke to everyone except the weasles who can still somehow profit from it and those who get screwed for the money.
There was a kid in my high school named Azalea Paris (pronounced “pah-REESE”). Which was bad enough, but he was a dude.
I've heard that in MA, a small upstart DD competitor is suffering the same scrutiny by the DOJ.
In fact, the DOJ has been soliciting job applicants not hired to bring suit. The allegation is that the new comer is only hiring young and busty women.
Tightly-controlled franchises like Dunkin Donuts have specific requirements for a reason. Generally, they want consumers to KNOW that no matter where they stops into a Dunkin Donuts, the hours and products and tile on the bathroom walls will always be exactly the same.
This woman is a moron. She was fired for not toeing the corporate line like everybody else. All the rest of her charges are made-up BS.
Pretti Shetty married a greek names, Harry Paratestes
This is a constant struggle in franchising, where I worked for 15 years.
In most franchise systems the franchisor’s primary income is from royalties paid as a percentage of gross sales. The franchisee, of course, only makes money when a profit is made at that location after expenses.
So franchisor staff guys are constantly coming up with ideas they think will increase the system’s gross sales without much concern as to how it will affect the individual franchisee’s bottom line. See the many special pricing initiatives at fast food places, etc.
OTOH, franchisees are way too often focused on the expense line without realizing that increasing the system’s market share will also benefit them personally.
Mrs Gamecock stops at the Montvale DD several times a week. She always reports there are men working there.
I don’t go to DD because I don’t get good service from the indian proprietors.
"Fair" for me is not necessarily fair for thee...
Exactly. She RAN them, she did not OWN them.
In quotation marks? Ooops. That would be a lie. No one uses words like that in conversation in American English, certainly not in corporate. Maybe you need to bone up on your non-Hindi dialects of English, Ma'am. Unless it's misquote or made-up quote by the reporter, it's a lie, and liars deserve to lose.
Does she have a brother named Jack Hass?
LOL! Say do you like fish sticks?
Here in Georgia, there are not many Krispy Kreme donut shops around here, if any, unless you want to buy them from a gas station ($12 a dozen) so we are stuck with DD if you need a donut.
I will NEVER step foot in a DD again. And the CEO, Richard Cranium, or whatever his name is, can plant his pucker on my sweet, little, powdered sugar butt.
We have a DD here in my town run by an Indian woman.
One of my Daughters worked there for a while.
Having had other near minimum wage jobs - my daughter will say for a fact that woman was the biggest bitch to work for. A real slave master.
It has poor service because of high turnover in workers.
The more you squeeze the less you get in her case.
Pay peanuts and you get monkeys
Huh? I am sure someone actually accused her of not being “servile enough”.
Jeez, if you are going to lie about an incident, you could, at least, do it well.
I don’t think we can tell from this whether there was a lout on the management side who literally told her she was “insufficiently servile.” That shouldn’t fly in the USA.
As for franchising duties, you know when you open a franchise you are opening yourself up to get screwed, blued, and tattooed if the management thinks it will help their image. Of course if the place as a consequence goes bankrupt and closes, it hardly helps.
Sounds like something that one dot-Indian might say to another one.
Dunkin’ is at best mediocre. Krispy Kreme, or the knockoff Dixie Cream, both kick donkey. Donuts that are so good you could easily stuff yourself sick on them.
It takes a while for the night time world to learn that you are open, and then come to depend on and trust that. You have to build a nighttime clientele
A place suddenly deciding to stay open all night is not suddenly known to everyone, but in time they start driving some distance to get to you. I have seen this happen and your area of reach expands, I have seen restaurants try it intermittently by closing if business gets slow, but they don't realize that someone is not going to drive 3 or 4 miles out of their way, or pull off your freeway exit just to play odds, but they will if they know that you are always open at night.
Some bigoted, sterotyping cad? That sort of stuff doesn’t fly in the USA. Documenting it would be a key thing in her case. If it were me I would have answered with a letter saying “what do you mean, ‘servile’? could you please explain?”
I’ll take it a step farther: Dunkin’ Donuts is TERRIBLE!!!
Their donuts are awful, the coffee is worse, and the service is worse yet.
I have absolutely NO reason to visit Dunkin’ Donuts.
And, yes, Krispy Kreme is excellent.
I agree with you about the lack of quality, esp their coffee. Very bad. I do have to say, though, that the Dunkin’s in NY do have decent bagels. They probably buy local, so no credit to them.
I know a guy who owns a couple of Rita’s franchises, and when headquarters says today the mango is on sale, then today the mango is on sale. The micromanagement of big franchises is down to how much ammonia to mix in the janitor’s bucket before mopping the floor.
There is simply no accomodation for a rogue who wants to do things differently.
She signed a freaking contract, and has no shot in a court that doesn’t have some kind of moron OJ jury.
And I maintain that all the rest of the allegations are horse manure. “Insufficiently servile” ? Who talks like that? Anyway, at worst it was somebody whose first language is not English and who was telling the woman that she failed to follow the rules.
We’ll see what documentation she has as proof. If someone, especially a “Miller,” said she was not “servile” enough that might get a jury’s notice, as that word carries certain connotations.
Dunkin Donuts Corporate is in the wrong, the areas these particular DD shops are located are bedroom commuter areas with no foot traffic on this highway, and almost no road traffic at night. It’s on a secondary highway to nowhere on the northbound side at night.
I have first hand knowledge of the the Oak Ridge store, my first job in college involved driving to this DD every day and buying 8 coffees and 12 donuts.
This area has no appreciably traffic at late night. I have driven through this highway at night and gone miles without seeing another car except for cops sleeping through their shift.
The DD shop in Wantage is even more isolated, it’s surrounded by farms and cemeteries on a tertiary county road that has no northbound destination at night, and anyone heading southbound had just left a private residence because there is no other reasonable place to be coming from in the north of there.
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