So I Walked In To A Fast Food Place...and??? [View all]

[rsmith6621]

So I walk in to the local national fast food establishment that opened in the town for less than 4 years and see a sign with a master plan look to it with visuals of a remodel that they are slated to start next month.

The visuals are beautiful. They are going to put a new coat of paint on the walls, change out the moldings, new floor tile, remodeled restrooms,revamped restrooms and a new exterior paint scheme.

So the manager is taking my order and I ask him, so how much is this going to cost... around 200K. I asked him are sales down? he said no in fact we were up almost 50% over our sales from 2011 so then I asked other than the state mandates on min wage when was the last time you gave a token raise to the employees... he said he did not remember, he said its hard to give raises because they cant afford it most of the time. So I said you are beating sales records, spending 200K on a remodel and you are telling me you cant give your employees even a 50 cent raise? above state min wage.

He just took my order and said he could not talk about it any more.

Just makes you wonder how new tile floor translates into adding spendable income that ultimately benefits the community. I wonder what another $1.00 an hour would do to moral that would lead to a better customer experience leading to potentially better sales which would result in more spending in the community making it better for all.

It's a shame that corporations wont invest in to their employees.