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What an odd letter. > Besides hiring employees in at a lower wage to decrease our labor ( when able ) make sure you have a pulse on the morale of your employee

What an odd letter. > Besides hiring employees in at a lower wage to decrease our labor ( when able ) make sure you have a pulse on the morale of your employees...Do things to make sure you are the employer of choice. Most importantly, have the culture and environment that will attract people. This is kind of amazing. Surely they know that the culture and environment that will attract people will be the one that pays better, right? The only thing more amazing is that some brown-nosing sycophant managed to call it "words of wisdom" without vomitting.

shadowgovt 5y ago
> Surely they know that the culture and environment that will attract people will be the one that pays better, right? No, it's the one that offers the most perks, like foosball tables and microkitchens. Ask any successful Silicon Valley startup. /s
- giraffe_lady 5y ago
  This is the restaurant industry so it's more on the level of like, the one that lets you take an unpaid day off every once in a while.
  - lotsofpulp 5y ago
    These are businesses that operate on single digit profit margins. And are easily replaced by eating meals at home. They either find a way to procure cheap labor, or shut down, because Applebees clientele do not really have the will or ability to spend more at Applebees.
    - greedo 5y ago
      Wahhhh. I heard this crap from my owner/operator every time the minimum wage went up. We'd be told to cut staff hours because it would hurt the bottom line. He made roughly 10% profit after controllable. 10%. Sounds horrible. However his gross sales at our best store were over $3M/year in the 80's. So PAC was $300K. Waaaahhhh. He also owned four other McD's (though none as profitable as this one), so he was able to amortize all his corporate costs across five stores. He pulled in over $600K/year back in the 80's, yet was a Scrooge when it came to treating his employees. Cry me a river about "single digit profit margins." Tons of businesses have small margins, but make it up in volume.
    - giraffe_lady 5y ago
      Grew up in the restaurant business and worked it decades before switching to this, I know. Believe me these people have an easy enough time justifying this shit to themselves they really don't need your help. You're exactly right: if they can't find a way to run the business without depending on exploitative labor practices they need to shut it down.

shadowgovt 5y ago

> Surely they know that the culture and environment that will attract people will be the one that pays better, right? No, it's the one that offers the most perks, like foosball tables and microkitchens. Ask any successful Silicon Valley startup. /s

giraffe_lady 5y ago
This is the restaurant industry so it's more on the level of like, the one that lets you take an unpaid day off every once in a while.
- lotsofpulp 5y ago
  These are businesses that operate on single digit profit margins. And are easily replaced by eating meals at home. They either find a way to procure cheap labor, or shut down, because Applebees clientele do not really have the will or ability to spend more at Applebees.
  - greedo 5y ago
    Wahhhh. I heard this crap from my owner/operator every time the minimum wage went up. We'd be told to cut staff hours because it would hurt the bottom line. He made roughly 10% profit after controllable. 10%. Sounds horrible. However his gross sales at our best store were over $3M/year in the 80's. So PAC was $300K. Waaaahhhh. He also owned four other McD's (though none as profitable as this one), so he was able to amortize all his corporate costs across five stores. He pulled in over $600K/year back in the 80's, yet was a Scrooge when it came to treating his employees. Cry me a river about "single digit profit margins." Tons of businesses have small margins, but make it up in volume.
  - giraffe_lady 5y ago
    Grew up in the restaurant business and worked it decades before switching to this, I know. Believe me these people have an easy enough time justifying this shit to themselves they really don't need your help. You're exactly right: if they can't find a way to run the business without depending on exploitative labor practices they need to shut it down.