Trump to name fast-food CEO as labor secretary

[Jose Garcia]

Source: New York Post

President-elect Donald Trump will name restaurant CEO Andrew Puzder to be the next labor secretary, a source said Thursday.

Puzder, who runs the parent company of Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s, supported Trump during his campaign, praising him as a “pragmatic centrist” and “negotiator.”

Puzder also served as one of the candidate’s economic advisers.

He was seen at Trump Tower on Wednesday.

Read more: http://nypost.com/2016/12/08/trump-to-name-fast-food-ceo-as-labor-secretary/

[ck4829]

1. "Brought to you by Carl's Jr."

[McCamy Taylor]

25. My thoughts exactly.

[YOHABLO]

2. Just saw a Carl's/Hardee's commerical. Processed Beer cheese involved.

[Initech]

3. Idiocracy is now a reality.

[Skinner]

17. Ha!

We are cracking up here in the office.

[Initech]

18. "Because they pay me every time I do!"

[Tommy_Carcetti]

31. Not to mention that he's a big fan of shitty automated service machines.

Which in real life work about just as well as this:

http://fortune.com/2016/03/17/automate-fast-food/


This Fast Food CEO Wants to Replace Workers With Robots

CEO of CKE Restaurants Andy Puzder wants to take humans out of the fast food equation.

The Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s parent company could soon implement an employee-free operation as Puzder told Business Insider, “I want to try it.” The chief executive was inspired by Eatsa, a restaurant that employs just a handful of kitchen workers while all front-of-house procedures are computerized—you can go in without seeing a single human being.

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Puzder has previously written op-eds speaking out against raising the minimum wage. He argues that it would put a lot of people out of work saying, “Does it really matter if Sally makes $3 more an hour if Suzie has no job?” But in Puzder’s ideal scenario, neither Sally nor Suzie would have a job. “If you’re making labor more expensive, and automation less expensive—this is not rocket science.”

Additionally, Puzder would never have to worry about an employee lawsuit again. Machines are “always polite, they always upsell, they never take a vacation, they never show up late, there’s never a slip-and-fall, or an age, sex, or race discrimination case.”

[Initech]

33. "You are a bad mother! Your children are being placed in the custody of Carl's Jr!"

The sad thing is we might not have to wait 500 years to see this.

[montanto]

4. "Fuck you, I'm eating!" --idiocracy

[CurtEastPoint]

5. Yep: How muchmore Amurkin kin ya get than this sexist rah rah shit?

[NastyRiffraff]

27. Andy Puzder on his ads:

Asked by Entrepreneur magazine in 2015 about a hallmark of one of his restaurants, Carl’s Jr., which frequently runs ads featuring models and celebrities like Charlotte McKinney eating burgers while wearing bikinis, Puzder was unapologetic.

"I like our ads. I like beautiful women eating burgers in bikinis. I think it's very American," he said. "I used to hear, brands take on the personality of the CEO. And I rarely thought that was true, but I think this one, in this case, it kind of did take on my personality."

No wonder Trump picked him, a fellow misogynist.

[tinrobot]

29. I honestly feel it's the reason he was nominated.

The Orange Shitgibbon really wants to go on a date with a burger model.

[arithia]

6. writeup on just how bad this jack@ss is

courtesy of Media Matters http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/11/17/what-you-need-know-about-rumored-trump-labor-secretary-andy-puzder/214523

Those disgusting, sexist Carls Jr commercials are just the tip of the iceburg. Shortened version for those who cannot check out the link-

*opposes overtime pay, basically stating that salaried employees are compensated in "prestige" and "a sense of ownership"

*prefers robot workers to humans because they "cannot complain about discrimination" and you don't have to pay them

*insists that low wage workers don't want high salaries as they miss out on "free stuff", courtesy of welfare (ignoring the fact that his companies don't pay anywhere near the high salaries he quoted)

* opposes a higher minimum wage and the ACA, claiming both hurt workers

[Initech]

7. Yeah I think that's the last time I eat at Carl's Jr.

Fuck that guy. This is about the most anti-labor pick you could get.

[DK504]

15. hardcore racists

bigots , homophobes all the -isms you can think of, this guy has given money to, especially anti-choice to the level of "The HandMaidens Tale."

Dystopian America anyone?

[harun]

8. ROFL, is this sh*t for real?

[CountAllVotes]

9. CKE Restaurants

From yahoo:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-expected-name-cke-restaurants-ceo-head-labor-153926524--finance.html

Puzder, chief executive of CKE Restaurants Inc [APOLOT.UL], which operates the Carl's Jr. and Hardee's fast-food chains, has been a vociferous critic of government regulation of the workplace.

CKE Restaurants or is it SICK Restaurants?

[TeamPooka]

43. ChoKE Restaurants

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. Trump Expected to Name Fast-Food Executive Andy Puzder as Labor Secretary

Trump Expected to Name Fast-Food Executive Andy Puzder as Labor Secretary

Mr. Puzder, chief executive of CKE Restaurants, likely to peel back regulations

By Julie Jargon and Michael C. Bender

[e-mail]
http://twitter.com/juliejargon

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http://twitter.com/MichaelCBender

Updated Dec. 8, 2016 10:45 a.m. ET

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name fast-food executive Andy Puzder as labor secretary, according to people familiar with the decision.

Mr. Puzder, chief executive of CKE Restaurants Holdings Inc., the parent company of the Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s burger chains, has been a vocal advocate for cutting back regulations he says have stifled growth in the restaurant industry, which represents 10% of the American workforce. ... Mr. Puzder, an adviser and contributor to Mr. Trump’s campaign, has criticized the Affordable Care Act and has argued against raising the federal minimum wage higher than $9 an hour. Democrats have called for raising the federal minimum wage for as high as $15.

Mr. Puzder is on the board of the International Franchise Association, a trade group that has criticized the Obama administration, saying it attacked the franchising model by implementing regulations that stunt job growth. Instead of focusing on stepping up workplace regulation to create jobs and higher wages, Mr. Puzder would likely call for tools such as an overhaul of the tax system, said Matt Haller, a spokesman for the franchise trade group.
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Mr. Puzder has written opinion pieces for The Wall Street Journal on topics such as the negative effects of President Barack Obama’s health-care law and of broad increases in minimum wage.
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—Melanie Trottman contributed to this article.

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. More on this biz:

CKE Restaurants Holdings Inc.owns Carl's Jr., Hardee's, Green Burrito, and Red Burrito quick-service restaurants.


CKE Restaurants Holdings Inc. was bought by Roark Capital Group, an American private equity firm, in 2013.

Roark Capital Group is named for Howard Roark, the protagonist in Ayn Rand's novel, The Fountainhead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roark_Capital_Group

[muntrv]

11. Make Amurka great by paying slave wages.

[CountAllVotes]

12. and don't you just know ...

Expect a dramatic rise in the # of people poisoned by eating crap junk food being it will be deregulated by this freak!

Boycott CKE Restaurants for starters ...

[Thrill]

13. Elections have consequences

Dumbass working class fools who voted for this piece of shit

[rusty fender]

14. I seriously doubt that any, or very few Carl's Junior employees bothered

to vote. And when they are negatively impacted by the Putz's polices, they won't bother to vote again. There's an intransigent nonvoting bloc in this country

[Yavin4]

19. Say goodbye to any hike in the federal min. wage. Bye. Bye.

Elections have consequences.

[Jose Garcia]

21. Even if Hillary had won, there was no way it would make it through a GOP-controlled House

[Yavin4]

34. I don't know if that is true. It would have been a potent campaign issue.

Given that hikes in the min. wage have consistently won on a state level.

[hollowdweller]

20. After crowing about Obama's creation of low paying jobs and how the working class is getting screwed

the entire election season it's very confusing that Trump would choose this guy.

I guess he just figures Democrats and Unions and the Media are too disorganized to bring the contradictions between Trumps rhetoric and his reality to the public.

Oh and Hardees food is truly awful, and I have never gone thru a drive thru there I didn't wait for a LONG time because they were under staffed. I tried one of their burritos once and nearly cacked and their food is the greasiest.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

32. Hardee's used to be decent back in the 90s.

Then Pudzer's company bought it out and merged with Carl's Jr. and it was no longer the same since.

[n2doc]

39. Trump's MO is to play the 'nice guy', but choose the RW extremists to actually implement policy

I think he believes he can just BS his way though the blowback. And he might with the MSM's help.

[davekriss]

22. This is a nightmare, right?

I'll wake up soon and Hillary Clinton will be President, right?

[Turbineguy]

23. Secretary Against Labor.

[bucolic_frolic]

24. The Fast Food Industry will shrink big time

once working people realize what's going on and stop eating there

I do expect consumers, at least Democratic consumers, will begin to think
when they spend, millennials in particular

[NastyRiffraff]

26. That would be good

but I doubt it will happen. Many millennials LOVE their fast food. Walk into any McDonald's; it'll likely be filled with millennials and teens.

[pstokely]

40. they eat fast food out the necessity, juke like driving

wasn't McDs having trouble with that group?

[pstokely]

41. aren't they already losing business to "fast casual" places like Panera Bread

like they pay any better?

[bucolic_frolic]

28. This is like a police chief winking at the criminals

When the regulated ignore the laws and enforce the regulations
you have, in effect, no laws at all

Crooked Donald

[annabanana]

30. Yeah! He'll understand the HELL out of labor.

We re sure in for a rough road aren't we.

[Txbluedog]

35. What? Isn't it the labor secretary's job to protect big business?

I imagine they might give serious thought to reducing the min wage requirements--a libertarian principle

[resistance2016]

36. If he keeps this up, he'll have the whole Legion of Doom soon.

On second thought, I think the Legion of Doom wouldn't be nearly as destructive for the country...

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

38. I think one may find a redeemable character or two in The Legion. Not here though. nt

[brooklynite]

37. The CEO of "Hooters" wasn't available?

[pstokely]

42. they probably pay too much to tRump

hooters waitresses probably expect more than minimum wage