There is a huge difference between fast food fry cook, manager at the local Texas Roadhouse, and head chef at a 3 Michelin star restaurant. The claim was that t

There is a huge difference between fast food fry cook, manager at the local Texas Roadhouse, and head chef at a 3 Michelin star restaurant. The claim was that the first was being made to sign a non-compete. Again, the only “fast food” level non-compete is the 2016 story where Jimmy John’s stopped doing it: “For example, readers may recall the infamous Jimmy John’s non-compete controversy of 2014. According to a Huffington Post report, the fast food chain required its employees and delivery workers to sign contracts agreeing not to work at any restaurant where sandwiches comprised 10 percent or more of total revenue (that’s right—not just sandwich businesses but any store that sold sandwiches or wraps) within three miles of a Jimmy John’s location for two years after leaving the company. Following an investigation from the New York attorney general’s office, Jimmy John’s dropped the clause in late 2016.” I don’t disagree that non-competes are a problem but this sort of hyperbole undercuts the stronger arguments that can be made for why noncompetes (without attendant compensation) should be forbidden.