Posted on 07/19/2022 12:48:57 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
There’s a spot in Hollywood called Food 4 Less operated by Kroger for many years. It close 2 years ago during the plandemic when the idiotic commie city council mandated an extra $5 per hour known as “hero pay” for the “heroic” grocery workers for working thru the plandemic.
Many people didnt believe Kroger would close that location due to the “razor thin profit margins” excuse but they did. Almost 3 years now, it’s one big empty spot on Sunset.
Maine has a strong leftie organizaing force. Years ago, they struck a food processing company (Hostess) when the company was cutting back to try to save itself. It closed, and the stupid strikers b!tched about management shafting them. Whaa.
They don’t seem to realize that restaurants operate on tiny margins, and the line between survival and insolvency is a thin one.
Every now and then the owner would check how much meat we were putting in the tacos. One ounce was the maximum. He was very strict about it. Of course I thought he was being a jerk, but he knew that an extra half ounce of meat was the difference between the store making or losing money.
What kind of liberal are You?
I wouldn’t doubt it for a minute.
“Their food is overpriced and not very good. Not sure why anyone ever goes there.
The college students around here love it. You get a football sized burrito and walk out pretty darn full. I agree with you the food is nothing to boast about, but it is pretty clean. When lower-priced restaurants were $10-12 and Chipotle burritos were $8 I didn’t think it was such a great deal. Now that lower priced restaurants are $20, their $9 burritos seem like a better deal. I just don’t go out to eat 1/5th as much I used to. As bored as I get w/my own cooking, it’s just too expensive for sub-average food.
Did Chipotle “donate” to “BLM”?
If so, round and round . . .
Maine is a cesspool of liberal stupidity. This is what companies can and will do doofuses. Protect their interests and avoid utter ruin for a brand that’s decades old.
I only ate at the one in Bangor, once! Never again.
Besides there is a Chick-fil-a next to it. No contest.
Open a restaurant!
Exactly. I had food poisoning more than once from Chipotle food. Their store in Pocatello crashed and burned. People avoided it like the plague that it was. The commercial floor space has been replaced with a Japanese cuisine. Sushi and custom bowls of soup where you order the meats and veggies ala carte and cook at your table. Tasty, but expensive for the volume of food delivered. The new business is Shabushi Japanese Shabu and Sushi.
To be fair, that was not a nationwide issue but was limited to the behavior of a handful of employees. One of them was not food poisoning but an employee who had stomach flu and did not go home and packed a catering order in which, surprise, all of the people who handled the packaging of the wrapped food at the conference got the stomach flu.
Chipolte is a public company. Margin is less than 10 percent
That bit of one person doing the job of three suns up the operating principle of a certain midwestern electronics resale and recycling outfit.
Been there, done that.
I hoped that the customers would buy enough coffee, drinks, desserts, fries, etc.
when they came in for the break-even onion & beef gravy smothered
salisbury steak that I would make enough to pay Sysco food
service AND the electric bill after paying the waitresses
and the bus boy. THAT is a thin margin.
Restaurant biz can be pretty tough for an independent.
Frankly, the only thing that kept it going for as long as
it did was the ABC license for beer & wine, the pizza oven
and Friday and Saturday nights. And the live music helped the draw.
And I had to pay the band too.
those wages can’t pay for gas to get to and from work
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$20 plus per hour here McDonalds, Hardee’s, W-M, Pizza Hut, Domino’s etc.
I remember that
One of the strikers said that hopefully the new owners would treat them better. Instead Hostess was sold to many different companies and started operations somewhere else.
According to the article the store has been closed since mid-June due to staffing issues.
If you want to pay $15 for a burrito, keep cheering these unions on.
In my industry - imprinted apparel - the unions have ruined American garment manufacturing. You can buy a regular t-shirt for about $10 or you can buy a Union made t-shirt for about $20.
Guess which one the customers want.
Even funnier, the local trade unions want only union made stuff, but when they get the price, they ask us if we can re-label imported shirts.
Everyone likes made in the USA by unions, until they have to pay for it.
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