While it sounds bad it probably was the best way to go. If you get all your employees, especially food service and public contact employees pi$$ed off they could do substantial damage to your business assets and cause a large number of law suits to be brought down on the owners. Its the way things are.
If the employees don’t like the law, they should get it changed.
If they are a little snooty, they can apply at the Pirrates House or Johnny Harris’s and get a good job
Yeah....
Though it sucks that there couldn’t be any advanced notice, in this HIGHLY litigious society in which we live, often times it may be best for employees to be fired before they know it. That should also go both ways as well. Just as an employer may have the right to terminate without notice, employees should be able to leave without notice, without consequences.
And that's precisely why it was done that way. As Penny, the Cheesecake Factory waitress on The Big Bang Theory said: "Don't pi$$ off the people who handle your food."