CEO has donated more than $440,000 to Trump's reelection campaign

[left-of-center2012]

The first fast-food franchisee to publicly advise the White House on reopening restaurants across the US has donated more than $440,000 to President Donald Trump's reelection campaign.

James Bodenstedt, the CEO of Muy Cos. which operates Wendy's, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut franchises has donated more than $440,000 to Trump's reelection campaign, including $200,000 in March.

On Monday, Trump participated in a roundtable discussion with restaurant-industry leaders on the field's recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. The leaders include Panera CEO Niren Chaudhary; Jose Cil, the CEO of Burger King and Popeyes' parent company, Restaurant Brands
International; Thomas Keller, a fine-dining restaurateur; and Muy Cos. CEO James Bodenstedt.

While experts have said independent restaurants will suffer most during the pandemic, the most prominent White House advisers have been CEOs of chains and leaders of fine-dining empires.

https://www.businessinsider.com/fast-food-franchisee-advising-white-house-400000-to-trump-reelection-2020-5

[uponit7771]

1. If my CEO supported an openly racist person I don't know how I'd feel about working there. Damn I ..

... loved Wendy's chilli, o well ... time to make my own

[SoCalNative]

4. His company is a franchisee of Wendy's and others

not corp CEO for any of those companies:

"James Bodenstedt, the CEO of Muy Cos. which operates Wendy's, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut franchises"

[uponit7771]

5. Not at the headquarters, there are company workers there and I don't know how I'd feel about my

... CEO supporting an openly racist person as a PoC.

That would make me feel like their judgement is slighted against me in one way or the other.

[maxrandb]

9. Does it really matter?

Aren't Wendy's, KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell lending their names, brands and reputation to him?

Isn't not holding them accountable like excusing a corporation for advertising on Faux News, but just not during the Hannity show?

We need to stop being so nuanced.

I'm assuming that since those companies have lended their reputation to this CEO, they are complicit in supporting this racist piece of shit.

For anyone that says that's unreasonable and the other side could do the same thing to people that support Democrats, I say; "call me when the Democrats ever nominate someone for president that is even 1/10th as evil, immoral and racist as Donnie Shit for Brains".

[Midnight Writer]

7. Not all Wendy's. (nor other brands named) This guy just holds the franchise for some of them.

[sop]

2. These corporate restaurant mega-chains will come out on top after most of the mom-and-pop

eateries go bankrupt.

[Blue_true]

8. That is already happening.

Very few individual businesses have takeout windows. If you drive by a McDonald's, or Wendy's, or Lee's, or Zaxby's (my fav), you see their takeout windows with more cars in line than you see parked at the dine-in only places that are open. One dine-in place near me opened back up and closed shut within two weeks.

So the damage is already happening. Many small places are gone forever, the likelihood that many corporations with classes of workers that can work from home will shift heavily to a work from home model for business puts even more pressure on the small places that manage to survive the initial shakeout.

[NNadir]

3. Any boycott in which I personally participated would have no effect.

I don't eat in any of those restaurants to start.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

6. We ban Chick-fil-A already for thier right wing crazyness

We need to ban fast food too. Starve the CEO beasts