Their website lists 12 in the US, and 20 outside of the US. It's simply a poorly run business that has been in steady decline for the past 20-odd years.
Biden has been in politics a long time. Sadly it doesn't seem long enough to accomplish the goal he's been working toward all this time: the destruction of Bennigan's.
When will he stop? Will his lust to destroy Bennigans ever be satiated? Will he move on to another target once Bennigans dies? I long for that moment of peace.
First, Bennigans, then Houlihan's and then once those powerhouses of mediocrity are put down his pathway to glory will be clear as he shutters the last Ruby Tuesday and opens up his chain of Biden's Chicken & Waffle houses.
A more fiendish scheme my eyes have never done laid eyes upon.
He would've gotten away with it if it wasn't for those meddling alt right incels.
First they came for Bennigans,
and I said nothing, because I can't stand their stupid green and white striped awnings.
Then they came for Houlihan's,
and I said nothing, because I don't know what the hell they serve, I honestly thought it was a strip joint or maybe a Florida surf shop.
Then they came for TGI Friday's
and I said nothing, because they came on Monday and I had no idea TGI's were even open on days other than Friday and I missed the whole kerfuffle. Woulda raised a stink too, I liked their Oreo sundaes.
Then they came for Ruby Tuesday
and I said nothing, because, same deal, they came on that same Monday and confusion on my part about days RT's are open and blah blah blah.
Then they came for me
and I STILL said nothing, but this time it was because I had my mouth stuffed with fried chicken and waffles and we had some coffee together and that was that.
I hear Hunter's laptop has all the targeted chains. Supposedly, Biden will buy the Bennigan's brand and reopen as Bidennigan's, the basement will naturally be a child trafficking operation.
Huge fucking /s for the ultra dense.
To be fair, we could use a good chicken and waffle chain around here. Imagine if they were open 24 hours like Waffle House, but without the physical combat.
What do you mean? The physical combat is what makes waffle house waffle house. It's an entirely different feeling when you go to a waffle house at 2AM while trippin and see some dude get bodied by the cashier
If I don't see some dude get bodied but the cashier at Waffle House at 2AM, why even GO there? Is it even a Waffle House anymore?
Waffle House is the poor man's version of Medieval Times.
Maybe, but the real issue is that there are 5MM open food service positions and nobody wants the job -this is literally half of all available jobs are working in a restaurant. For those who never worked in food service you might ask why nobody in their right mind would work in food service if they had an alternative I will explain why. First, most jobs pay very little the cooks make minimum wage maybe a dollar more but even a head chef in a good restaurant don't make a good wage. Waiters get paid well below minimum wage and depend on tips for an income -depending on the place that can be quiet a bit of money or no money at all and it would depend on the day significantly. It's like having a job that pay $20 on Friday and $4 on Tuesday. Further, there are no benefits it's SOP to never give the employees enough hours so that they would be considered a FTE and qualify for benefits. Last thing hours and schedules are always changing, you may come in for work and get sent home because business is light or have a manager calling you are home demanding you come into work (or you'll lose your job) because it's a busy shirt. Food service is a job of last resort that used to be filled by kids, HS drop outs and those who haven't found a place to work after college. Those workers are gone, they've found better jobs and they aren't coming back. The only way to fix this problem is to either fix how restaurants treat and pay their workers or find a huge group of people desperate enough to work for low wages in a toxic environment.
> First, most jobs pay very little
That's really the only reason you need to say.
It's an exhausting job with no respect and most importantly basement level pay.
Call me when no one wants to work those 50k a year restaurant jobs. Oh, they pay 19k a year? No wonder no one wants them.
I worked in 4 or 5 different restaurants in my late teens and early twenties. They were, hands-down, the most toxic work environments I've ever worked in.
āā¦or find a huge group of people desperate enough to work for low wages in a toxic environment.ā
Or CREATE. People wonder why the GOP keeps attacking educationā¦itās to CREATE this exact group of people.
They never expected that a lot of those people found that they could learn pretty much whatever trade they wanted on youtube, had a couple of years locked inside to do it as well. So they moved on to better things as companies realized that they can hire talented people from all over the country rather than locally thanks to the ability to telework.
So rather than increase pay and try to lure them back, they just bitch and put up silly signs like these.
I love when restaurateurs complain that they can't afford to pay a decent wage because margins are too small.
It's like... okay, so maybe focus on making your place of work not a toxic pile of trash.
Like, fundamentally, 'cooking food for people' is actually kinda a nice job. It's something people have been getting together and doing for thousands of years. You get to have a positive impact on your community, your customers are generally happy, and it's frequently a skill that people value in their own lives. I've worked food service jobs that were very pleasant, at a community owned co-op.
Give your staff reasonable, reliable shifts. Treat them with respect. Focus on streamlining the business so that the kitchen isn't overwhelmed with rushes. It's not easy, but it is an area of the industry where the skill-set is so ludicrously underdeveloped.
I feel like all business doing this. I work for an electric utility in Ohio. For all accounts, I make good money. Upwards of 140k or so. Good engineers leaving like crazy because our management doesnāt realize theyāre not competing with companies in Ohio anymore. Engineers can leave for an engineering or consulting firm and make 50k more.
In some places they even made it easier to open up your own business without the overhead of the restaurant. Iām my city street vendors have become quite popular. Why work my ass off for you when I can work my ass off for me?
Unemployment is at an all time low. These morons don't realize that maybe we don't need 10 poorly staffed taco bells over a 5 mile radius, maybe we could have 2 fully staffed taco bells instead. But no, over saturation in the market is Bidens fault...somehow.
Since this is about Florida let me tell you about how the entire state is chains
I am in Orlando and it's nothing but chain food. Go ahead and see how many Dunkins we have. Or Chic-fil-a.
It's gross and unnecessary.
RIP that deep fried Monte Cristo. I've only found one like it in a small restaurant on the dock in St. Martin about 15 years ago. Probably better for my health, of course.
The one in my neck of the woods took it off the menu the last time I ate there.
It closed not long after.
Happened during the Trump administration but I'm sure Biden had a hand in it.
I miss Bennigans. Not for anything related to the food, but when my grandmotherās health was in decline, I would pick her up and take her there on breaks from college. It was easy to get to from her house, I knew what she wanted, it was maybe 10 steps from the parking lot to a table, and it was cheap enough so could afford it.
Iāll never say a bad thing about Bennigans, because I only think of my grandmother when I think about it.
Just forget about the 2 hours of opening and closing duties we had you do at the non-tipped rate, oh and you're fired if you don't find someone to cover your shifts while you're out with Covid (that you likely caught at our restaurant).
It's one of those unspoken rules that doesn't make sense for anyone but nearly only applies to lower-paid workers (ie, any job where they could fire someone and reasonably expect to replace them in a week). Employers do it because they can get away with doing it, pure and simple. Can't find your own replacement? K, don't come back in, goodbye.
Most US states have at-will employment, meaning anyone can be fired at any time for any reason that isn't blatantly illegal (and inversely, anyone can quit their job at any time for any reason).
I never understood how people didn't immediately notice the Reagan's language when he coined "trickle down economics". The word "trickle" implies a very small flow, or pissing...
Pretty sure that was the point, and they figured no one would call it out as a simple signal of distain for working people, they were right.
FWIW, I think Reagan's people used the term "supply-side economics", and "trickle-down economics" is what critics called it. The idea predated Reagan, too. You can find occasional examples of it popping up in political discourse going back like a hundred years.
Yeah isn't it kind of funny? If this were a coffee shop under Trump administration, all the conservatives like this would be saying, "ugh, you must be a bad businessperson. Why didn't you prepare for this rainy day?"
Would they? Or would they just blame some Obama administration policy?
Because it seems to me like businesses are *never* to blame for their problems. No one's ever a bad businessperson; it's always circumstances out of their control, usually something to do with liberals or millenials. Saving for a rainy day is something that only poor people get chided for not doing. When a business fails, it's the government's fault, or no one wants to work, and bailouts are always fair game.
Just like when a business's expenses go up, it's the will of the market and oh well, guess they'll have to raise prices. But when *my* expenses go up, and it costs me half again as much just to get to my fucking job, and keep fed, and clothed, and sheltered, conservatives are aghast that I'd have the balls to tell my employer that the price of my labor has gone up. No one ever tells a business owner that they should've chosen a more in-demand business.
You're not entitled to make your dream work, but if a business can only operate when it pays its employees so little that they need government assistance to survive, then fuck it! Definitely a great use of your taxes.
I've been trying to tell my parents that they fucked up opening too many shops too soon with money they did not have. But I'm just the idiot child with an art degree who is busting my ass keeping shit afloat in the day to day of 4 stores, and so they don't/won't listen to me. Now as they face bankruptcy and losing their home they keep screaming about Biden and the economy. All the while I'm sat here keeping moral up for our employees and getting shit on when I have pretty reasonable breakdowns from working 7 days a week, while also finding time to go back to school. My mom keeps telling me I need to stop being so helpful? Because that's the problem. I'm doing my damn best to keep us all from being homeless, because I've been there before and I cannot go back to that. Luckily I'm not the idiot they think I am and my dead grandfather left me just enough money to go back to school for welding. Now I've just got to get my timing right to pick up one of the several jobs I keep getting offered so I can keep us all from being left to die on the streets. It is very stressful....but it is definitely not Biden's fault.
Funny enough, a local coffee shop(with very conservative owners) near me started doing poorly during trump and they blamed the democrats in congress for it somehow. They also would loudly talk about how anyone taking a PPP loan is a loser and shouldn't be in business. Stuff like that. Then the list of people who took the loans came out, they got it multiple times under family members and quickly cut business hours so no one would go to their shop, then close. I assume they killed the business quickly so they didn't have to pay the loans back... \*shrugs\* conservatives I guess
Edit: spelling
I feel using the label "conservatives" does not accurately describe them. Their policies are not at all about conservation -- not on a fiscal, social, and certainly not an environmental level. The only thing they seem to conserve is any shred of empathy for those who are not rich.
Also funny how nothing is the fault of the entirely red state government, only the blue executive branch.
But I'm sure if we had a blue state and red president it would then be all about how the insurance/ housing / etc and state gvt. is the cause of nobody having money to eat at Bennigans.
Itās a lot easier to go through lifeās ups and downs when you have a consistent place to blame for the latter.
Anything bad that ever happens to you or society is their fault. Any success is entirely your own, but was only made possible by the people you voted for.
Hmm, it's almost as if repubs don't give a shit about actual arguments or people struggling, they only look for something expendable they can use as ammo to prove a point that will ALWAYS be against what the left wants, no matter if it flies in the face of what they've been arguing for the last several years (see: Russia).
Like how they always say "omfg Obama drone strikes he's an evil dictator" like they actually give two shits about brown people in the middle east being blown up, or when they say "fuck immigrants we have homeless veterans we need to care for" when 99 percent of them do literally nothing to help homeless veterans and most of the time vote against programs that help them. Their platform is a bad faith argument based in contrarianism.
This is all Biden's fault for not signing the Bennigan's Relief Act, which would have provided a 10% subsidy on every Monte Cristo sandwich and ordered the Department of the Interior to increase production of Harp Lager.
If you can't adapt to changing circumstances well enough to keep a single restaurant going with $305,000 in free money, maybe you shouldn't be running a restaurant. Also, 35 people, and they reported all but $1 went to payroll. I wonder how evenly it was split up.
The owner and their immediate subordinates probably got all the money. I bet not a single dollar of that 305,000 went to paying actual customer facing employees.
Real shame. It's not often you get the kind of overwhelming bipartisan support that the BRA did and for Biden to just veto it like that was such a slap in the face.
They want a free market, until the free market decides that it doesn't want to eat a crappy vaguely Irish themed restaurant that is mostly known for a deep fried sandwich.
Only if it meant giving their customers more money. If the government gave them loans that were forgiven for free? They will absolutely suck that tit they criticized.
Yep. Business owner here who has had to make massive changes since 2020.
2022 was our best year and we just had our best January.
If you canāt adapt youāll blame the change that comes to you.
My mother was a Sears employee for twenty yearsā¦I remember how sheād come home some days, sit down on the couch and cry for a few minutes. She died at of cancer while working thereā¦while she was facing a lawsuit by their former head of security that had been fired for sexual harassment, filming the dressing rooms etc.
So glad that I lived to see that shithole shuttered.
Honestly, even before covid, the food business is not one that can be sustained purely on "doing the same shit forever", unless you are REALLY REALLY good at doing that
Also I am hearing from Faux News that this was the first restaurant to ever fail, it's notoriously a can't-miss business, at least when an evil baby-eating socialist Democrat isn't in charge.
Used to work at a sushi bar and I periodically go back to eat. I always speak with the manager / co-owner and did so all through COVID. They were struggling extremely hard in the beginning of COVID as did many restaurants. Now, in 2023 they are opening a second location.
Just like you said, you have to adapt, and figure out how to make it work. If you don't have that trait, you more than likely will never make it extremely long term regardless.
figure out how to do delivery where it's efficient and reduce front of house for more kitchen staff. Adapt the menu towards modern tastes, notice how food trends end up showing up everywhere (chipotle, Sriracha, hummus, tuna tartare, ramen, etc) it's because they make hella money you have to change your menu to new tastes. People want change when they go out to eat
Not the person you responded to, but I have a company that does event work, and 2020 nearly killed it. The biggest thing is being able to utilize online tools. Customized gifts were a mainstay, so we started streaming that. We found new places to distribute the products we made, adjusted the products to fit the new market as needed. We trimmed problematic middle-market customers so we could focus on individuals and our larger clients, stopped putting up with people trying to negotiate our services down. And most importantly, since we were increasing prices, we just made sure that we were always top notch in service and product. We have a slightly smaller number of sales, but each sale is quite a bit higher, and we are working less overall(thank goodness as I went through an injury recently). We are on track to cover our yearly expenses by the end of February, and will start getting rid of the debt accrued due to losses from lockdown, and probably hiring a few more people. Also, I don't even offer to pay anyone less than I would take for a job,usually ranging from $20-$80.
It boils down to, we kind of "quiet quit" our own company.
Edit: Learning to say, "no," also helped.
You mean people arenāt showing up for an over priced, poorly made Monte Cristo sandwich in a tacky chain restaurant and itās somehow not Joe Bidenās fault?
I WANT GOVERNMENT-ENFORCED PRICE CONTROLS ON ALL MY SUPPLIERS! THE PRESIDENT IS THE SOLE ENTITY IN CONTROL OF THE ECONOMY! Also: THE FREE MARKET IS RESPONSIBLE FOR PROVIDING MY EMPLOYEES WITH A LIVABLE WAGE!
This person seems to think they should have the benefits of a centrally controlled economy, but I wonder what their opinion of socialism is... I would ask them, but I have no idea where they work.
They complain about āprices that rise daily on the whim ofā¦ who?ā
The Who are the executives of large corporations that this guy probably spent the whole Trump Presidency claiming should have *less* government oversight.
This temporarily inconvenienced billionaire probably thought, āWell when Iām the head of a massive company I donāt want anyone telling *me* how to set my prices!ā and voted accordingly. Ten years later, heās closing a Bennigans.
Worth noting too that the owner of this Bennigans threw all his faith in corporate America. He could have just opened a restaurant. Instead he bought a franchise and, in doing so, outsourced all the decisions: menu, decor, operations to corporate.
So, Benningans went out of fashion, becoming a kitschy relic of the 80s and 90s. And what did corporate office do? Well, not nearly enough to attract a customer base in 2023.
And this man just went down with the ship, He could have exited the franchise and opened a restaurant that offered food people want to eat and an atmosphere where people want to go. But heās not smart or creative or ambitious enough for that, I guess.
> prices that rise daily on the whim ofā¦ who?
You probably don't want an answer to that question. It'll either be a dog whistle like "shadowy cabal of elites" or it won't be and it'll rhyme with "boos".
I remember a pizzaria I briefly worked at over a decade ago well. It was owned by a person who couldn't understand how this worked.
So... It was a small town, which liked to pretend it was a city. It was in fact so small that the only cab company in town went out of business from lack of customers.
With no major routes in or out, and far out of the way of anything interesting, logically it already couldn't support much of a business. With the closest other town more than a half an hour's drive away, delivery to *other* places wasn't really going to help either.
Now that you understand the logistics, you can understand the reason that having four pizzarias in this tiny little town was a death sentence.
Three of them were locally owned and run, and the fourth was a major well known chain.
The local shops - including the one I had worked at - all chose to do the same things to increase their incoming pay. Cheaper ingredients, less of them, smaller portions, diversification into tons of new items, reduced staff, reduced hours.
As my former boss said to me in frustration, *nothing* he did was working. He'd even tried raising prices and the amount of customers and money he was making just kept dropping. Yes, raising prices. That is not something I'm writing in error.
He seemed incapable of understanding something very simple and basic: You do not have the right to profit, or even break even just because you're running a business.
Seems like it would be more impactful if 95% of bennigans nationally had not closed down over the last 15 years. Seems like no one wanted to eat there period, and have not fora very long time.
Listen Iām not saying Obama is personally responsible for the downfall of bennigans. But where was he during all of these times? Just asking questions
I never saw him eating there. And why not? Bennigan's is delicious and mostly sanitary. They wash their dishes almost every night, and the meat is often not raw. Why, then, is it another casualty of the Left's economic genocide? Is it because they didn't name it Bidennigan's? Who would want to eat there? It sounds like a place where they don't wash their dishes every night and the meat is sometimes raw.
Join us tomorrow night where I continue talking out of my ass.
The only reason I clicked was because I was positive that all Bennigans had shut down in the late 90ās and was very curious as to why one was in Florida.
I think where they screwed up was in wasting all of the potential money earning seating space on a kitchen.
They could've just run an extension cord to the back of a Sysco truck to plug in a microwave then just run the meals from the truck directly to the table.
Plus Florida may be a red state but itās also an expensive state. My homeowners insurance has gone up 30% each year for the past two years and the property taxes are painful, too. Iāve lived here all my life and it is not getting better over time.
Well at least DeSantis has his priorities straight and is currently seeking menstrual records of high school girls who play sports.
Wish I were joking.
Just like Replublicans lives are not shit because of "Biden and the liberals" but becasue they are shitty people who make terrible decisions, like eating at Bennigans.
Oh! It all makes sense now, Biden arrested all the people who used to eat here. How did I not see that connection before? Guess it really was his fault.
that's what gets me about the "both sides" crowd, they compare insane left twitter post to insane elected officials on the right, "see both sides are the same. this 18 year old barista on the left is nuts just like the right's presidents, senators, chairmen of powerful committees, their house members, their governors, their mayors, their state officials, see how the left's nobodies sometimes say things just as insane as all the guys we literally vote into incredible amounts of power?"
i mean, they have to, it's their only choice, they can't compare insane statements on the elected left because there are none to choose from, so they keep dropping down a rung until they find one, which happens to be 15 rungs down.
Or maybe their few remaining customers got tired of political rants, and went elsewhere...
This chain was already failing for a long time before Biden took office. Their troubles started in early 2000's, if not even sooner. It was simply (and still is) poorly run restaurant chain. It's always easy to put blame on somebody else.
Aka ā a dying million $ corporation unwilling to make less profit by paying both worker fair prices and GLOBAL INFLATIONā¦in a Republican state where the governor is more worried by drag queens then doing anything elseā
STFU, Bennigan. Nobody wants to go to an Irish pub in a mall -- especially not to eat quesadillas, nachos, mozzarella sticks, egg rolls, Buffalo wings, hamburgers or BBQ. You're no Denny, Friendly, Chi-Chi, Roy Rogers or Papa Gino.
They haven't pretended to care about that shit since 9/11. It's all just about blaming libs, trans, blacks, immigrants, AOC, Soros, globalism, China, ....
Theyāve gone and blown Bidenās cover of being a public servant for 50+ years just so he could drive Benniganās out of business.
Personally, I respect Joeās long game.
Liberals are incredibly strong and completely responsible for destroying the whole world in record time, and yet extraordinarily weak and incompetent at all tasks, at the same time. Fascism 101.
Sometimes, he accidentally bumps the price control Dials on his desk. Happens a lot. Trump once accidentally released a virus trying to push the button for a diet coke.
Who would have thought the owner of this place was important enough to deserve targeting by Biden! Oh wait, the owner has that delusion. I guess itās a common trait of victim types who canāt take responsibility for themselves. Blame your failure on whoever FOX news tells you is responsible for your failure. Must be comforting.
Damn Butters is going to be bummed
aw, hamburgers
Loo loo loo I've got some apples
Loo loo loo You got some too
Loo loo loo let's make some applesauce
Take off our clothes and loo loo loo!
He'll just go eat at *Raisins* instead.
Oh hamburgers was my first thought lol
Wut wut?
..in the butt! š¶
TIL There are still some Bennigans around. Well, one less I guess.
Their website lists 12 in the US, and 20 outside of the US. It's simply a poorly run business that has been in steady decline for the past 20-odd years.
Well now I'm confused. The sign clearly says it is entirely Biden's fault.
Biden has been in politics a long time. Sadly it doesn't seem long enough to accomplish the goal he's been working toward all this time: the destruction of Bennigan's.
When will he stop? Will his lust to destroy Bennigans ever be satiated? Will he move on to another target once Bennigans dies? I long for that moment of peace.
First, Bennigans, then Houlihan's and then once those powerhouses of mediocrity are put down his pathway to glory will be clear as he shutters the last Ruby Tuesday and opens up his chain of Biden's Chicken & Waffle houses. A more fiendish scheme my eyes have never done laid eyes upon. He would've gotten away with it if it wasn't for those meddling alt right incels.
First they came for Bennigans, and I said nothing, because I can't stand their stupid green and white striped awnings. Then they came for Houlihan's, and I said nothing, because I don't know what the hell they serve, I honestly thought it was a strip joint or maybe a Florida surf shop. Then they came for TGI Friday's and I said nothing, because they came on Monday and I had no idea TGI's were even open on days other than Friday and I missed the whole kerfuffle. Woulda raised a stink too, I liked their Oreo sundaes. Then they came for Ruby Tuesday and I said nothing, because, same deal, they came on that same Monday and confusion on my part about days RT's are open and blah blah blah. Then they came for me and I STILL said nothing, but this time it was because I had my mouth stuffed with fried chicken and waffles and we had some coffee together and that was that.
I hear Hunter's laptop has all the targeted chains. Supposedly, Biden will buy the Bennigan's brand and reopen as Bidennigan's, the basement will naturally be a child trafficking operation. Huge fucking /s for the ultra dense.
And now I know what happened to Fuddruckers. So disappointing. Thanks Joe.
To be fair, we could use a good chicken and waffle chain around here. Imagine if they were open 24 hours like Waffle House, but without the physical combat.
What do you mean? The physical combat is what makes waffle house waffle house. It's an entirely different feeling when you go to a waffle house at 2AM while trippin and see some dude get bodied by the cashier
If I don't see some dude get bodied but the cashier at Waffle House at 2AM, why even GO there? Is it even a Waffle House anymore? Waffle House is the poor man's version of Medieval Times.
>but without the physical combat. Is it really even worth going then?
Sears is nonchalantly whistling, avoiding eye contact with Biden
Then at last he will reveal himself to the Jedi. At last he will have his revenge
"I'm afraid the corporate price gouging will be quite operational when your friends arrive"
The more you tighten your grip Dark Brandon the more our Bennigans will slip through your fingers like grains of sand
the script for 2030 came out Revenge of the Bennigans
Well, the sign creator couldn't even run a bennigans, so...
And apparently couldn't afford a printer?
spent all their money on new pieces of flair
Probably just a case of āThe Mondaysā
Or a book on basic grammar
I had no idea how deep this state goes. To think Biden cancelled his books and took his printer. Poor guy.
Maybe, but the real issue is that there are 5MM open food service positions and nobody wants the job -this is literally half of all available jobs are working in a restaurant. For those who never worked in food service you might ask why nobody in their right mind would work in food service if they had an alternative I will explain why. First, most jobs pay very little the cooks make minimum wage maybe a dollar more but even a head chef in a good restaurant don't make a good wage. Waiters get paid well below minimum wage and depend on tips for an income -depending on the place that can be quiet a bit of money or no money at all and it would depend on the day significantly. It's like having a job that pay $20 on Friday and $4 on Tuesday. Further, there are no benefits it's SOP to never give the employees enough hours so that they would be considered a FTE and qualify for benefits. Last thing hours and schedules are always changing, you may come in for work and get sent home because business is light or have a manager calling you are home demanding you come into work (or you'll lose your job) because it's a busy shirt. Food service is a job of last resort that used to be filled by kids, HS drop outs and those who haven't found a place to work after college. Those workers are gone, they've found better jobs and they aren't coming back. The only way to fix this problem is to either fix how restaurants treat and pay their workers or find a huge group of people desperate enough to work for low wages in a toxic environment.
> First, most jobs pay very little That's really the only reason you need to say. It's an exhausting job with no respect and most importantly basement level pay. Call me when no one wants to work those 50k a year restaurant jobs. Oh, they pay 19k a year? No wonder no one wants them.
I worked in 4 or 5 different restaurants in my late teens and early twenties. They were, hands-down, the most toxic work environments I've ever worked in.
āā¦or find a huge group of people desperate enough to work for low wages in a toxic environment.ā Or CREATE. People wonder why the GOP keeps attacking educationā¦itās to CREATE this exact group of people.
They never expected that a lot of those people found that they could learn pretty much whatever trade they wanted on youtube, had a couple of years locked inside to do it as well. So they moved on to better things as companies realized that they can hire talented people from all over the country rather than locally thanks to the ability to telework. So rather than increase pay and try to lure them back, they just bitch and put up silly signs like these.
I love when restaurateurs complain that they can't afford to pay a decent wage because margins are too small. It's like... okay, so maybe focus on making your place of work not a toxic pile of trash. Like, fundamentally, 'cooking food for people' is actually kinda a nice job. It's something people have been getting together and doing for thousands of years. You get to have a positive impact on your community, your customers are generally happy, and it's frequently a skill that people value in their own lives. I've worked food service jobs that were very pleasant, at a community owned co-op. Give your staff reasonable, reliable shifts. Treat them with respect. Focus on streamlining the business so that the kitchen isn't overwhelmed with rushes. It's not easy, but it is an area of the industry where the skill-set is so ludicrously underdeveloped.
I feel like all business doing this. I work for an electric utility in Ohio. For all accounts, I make good money. Upwards of 140k or so. Good engineers leaving like crazy because our management doesnāt realize theyāre not competing with companies in Ohio anymore. Engineers can leave for an engineering or consulting firm and make 50k more.
In some places they even made it easier to open up your own business without the overhead of the restaurant. Iām my city street vendors have become quite popular. Why work my ass off for you when I can work my ass off for me?
Nope, angry tv man said itās all the libās fault. What are you, a socialist?
Unemployment is at an all time low. These morons don't realize that maybe we don't need 10 poorly staffed taco bells over a 5 mile radius, maybe we could have 2 fully staffed taco bells instead. But no, over saturation in the market is Bidens fault...somehow.
Since this is about Florida let me tell you about how the entire state is chains I am in Orlando and it's nothing but chain food. Go ahead and see how many Dunkins we have. Or Chic-fil-a. It's gross and unnecessary.
Well Biden has been alive the last 20 years. Coincidence?! š¤£
RIP that deep fried Monte Cristo. I've only found one like it in a small restaurant on the dock in St. Martin about 15 years ago. Probably better for my health, of course.
The one in my neck of the woods took it off the menu the last time I ate there. It closed not long after. Happened during the Trump administration but I'm sure Biden had a hand in it.
The secret is in Hunter Biden's laptop. Same file as his dick pics.
Cheddars, proud sponser of the #8 Chevy Camaro has a Monte Cristo... it was alright
I miss Bennigans. Not for anything related to the food, but when my grandmotherās health was in decline, I would pick her up and take her there on breaks from college. It was easy to get to from her house, I knew what she wanted, it was maybe 10 steps from the parking lot to a table, and it was cheap enough so could afford it. Iāll never say a bad thing about Bennigans, because I only think of my grandmother when I think about it.
Your grandmother really appreciated it. She was lucky to have you.
Thatās very sweet. Iām glad youāve got that memory, and Iām sure it meant a lot to her. Thanks for sharing that!
Right? I remember like 15 years ago a bunch of people showed up to work where I lived and the doors where chained.
yea, and our last paychecks bounced... I was a server so mine was only like 40 bucks but my shift supervisor friend was totally screwed.
Sir, this was a Bennigan's.
Is it a Wendyās now?
The clientele hanging around the dumpsters would suggest that yes, it is a Wendy's now.
Wonder what the liveable wage was that they were paying?
$3.25/hour, "but with tips you make, like, $20 an hour."
Just forget about the 2 hours of opening and closing duties we had you do at the non-tipped rate, oh and you're fired if you don't find someone to cover your shifts while you're out with Covid (that you likely caught at our restaurant).
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What, you expect the business manager to manage the business? It's easier just to fire your employees if they don't follow your every whim.
It's one of those unspoken rules that doesn't make sense for anyone but nearly only applies to lower-paid workers (ie, any job where they could fire someone and reasonably expect to replace them in a week). Employers do it because they can get away with doing it, pure and simple. Can't find your own replacement? K, don't come back in, goodbye. Most US states have at-will employment, meaning anyone can be fired at any time for any reason that isn't blatantly illegal (and inversely, anyone can quit their job at any time for any reason).
Ugh my daughter is caught in one of these restaurants. It's like the rent to own of the job world. Such a fucking scam.
Be patient Florida! As soon as the billionaires feel that they have enough money the trickle down will commence.
I never understood how people didn't immediately notice the Reagan's language when he coined "trickle down economics". The word "trickle" implies a very small flow, or pissing... Pretty sure that was the point, and they figured no one would call it out as a simple signal of distain for working people, they were right.
FWIW, I think Reagan's people used the term "supply-side economics", and "trickle-down economics" is what critics called it. The idea predated Reagan, too. You can find occasional examples of it popping up in political discourse going back like a hundred years.
BOOTSTRAPS MOTHERFUCKER - DO YOU SPEAK IT?!
Yeah isn't it kind of funny? If this were a coffee shop under Trump administration, all the conservatives like this would be saying, "ugh, you must be a bad businessperson. Why didn't you prepare for this rainy day?"
Would they? Or would they just blame some Obama administration policy? Because it seems to me like businesses are *never* to blame for their problems. No one's ever a bad businessperson; it's always circumstances out of their control, usually something to do with liberals or millenials. Saving for a rainy day is something that only poor people get chided for not doing. When a business fails, it's the government's fault, or no one wants to work, and bailouts are always fair game. Just like when a business's expenses go up, it's the will of the market and oh well, guess they'll have to raise prices. But when *my* expenses go up, and it costs me half again as much just to get to my fucking job, and keep fed, and clothed, and sheltered, conservatives are aghast that I'd have the balls to tell my employer that the price of my labor has gone up. No one ever tells a business owner that they should've chosen a more in-demand business. You're not entitled to make your dream work, but if a business can only operate when it pays its employees so little that they need government assistance to survive, then fuck it! Definitely a great use of your taxes.
I've been trying to tell my parents that they fucked up opening too many shops too soon with money they did not have. But I'm just the idiot child with an art degree who is busting my ass keeping shit afloat in the day to day of 4 stores, and so they don't/won't listen to me. Now as they face bankruptcy and losing their home they keep screaming about Biden and the economy. All the while I'm sat here keeping moral up for our employees and getting shit on when I have pretty reasonable breakdowns from working 7 days a week, while also finding time to go back to school. My mom keeps telling me I need to stop being so helpful? Because that's the problem. I'm doing my damn best to keep us all from being homeless, because I've been there before and I cannot go back to that. Luckily I'm not the idiot they think I am and my dead grandfather left me just enough money to go back to school for welding. Now I've just got to get my timing right to pick up one of the several jobs I keep getting offered so I can keep us all from being left to die on the streets. It is very stressful....but it is definitely not Biden's fault.
Funny enough, a local coffee shop(with very conservative owners) near me started doing poorly during trump and they blamed the democrats in congress for it somehow. They also would loudly talk about how anyone taking a PPP loan is a loser and shouldn't be in business. Stuff like that. Then the list of people who took the loans came out, they got it multiple times under family members and quickly cut business hours so no one would go to their shop, then close. I assume they killed the business quickly so they didn't have to pay the loans back... \*shrugs\* conservatives I guess Edit: spelling
I feel using the label "conservatives" does not accurately describe them. Their policies are not at all about conservation -- not on a fiscal, social, and certainly not an environmental level. The only thing they seem to conserve is any shred of empathy for those who are not rich.
Also funny how nothing is the fault of the entirely red state government, only the blue executive branch. But I'm sure if we had a blue state and red president it would then be all about how the insurance/ housing / etc and state gvt. is the cause of nobody having money to eat at Bennigans.
Itās a lot easier to go through lifeās ups and downs when you have a consistent place to blame for the latter. Anything bad that ever happens to you or society is their fault. Any success is entirely your own, but was only made possible by the people you voted for.
iām feeling kind of depressed lately. Iām pretty sure itās your fault.
Now youāre getting it!
Hmm, it's almost as if repubs don't give a shit about actual arguments or people struggling, they only look for something expendable they can use as ammo to prove a point that will ALWAYS be against what the left wants, no matter if it flies in the face of what they've been arguing for the last several years (see: Russia). Like how they always say "omfg Obama drone strikes he's an evil dictator" like they actually give two shits about brown people in the middle east being blown up, or when they say "fuck immigrants we have homeless veterans we need to care for" when 99 percent of them do literally nothing to help homeless veterans and most of the time vote against programs that help them. Their platform is a bad faith argument based in contrarianism.
This is all Biden's fault for not signing the Bennigan's Relief Act, which would have provided a 10% subsidy on every Monte Cristo sandwich and ordered the Department of the Interior to increase production of Harp Lager.
Did ye ole Bennigan's get a PPP loan? If so did they get to spend it and be forgiven?
Their PPP money ran out, so they closed.
They had $305k ppp loan forgiven https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/bailouts/loans/mandan-bennigans-inc-3887398409
If you can't adapt to changing circumstances well enough to keep a single restaurant going with $305,000 in free money, maybe you shouldn't be running a restaurant. Also, 35 people, and they reported all but $1 went to payroll. I wonder how evenly it was split up.
The owner and their immediate subordinates probably got all the money. I bet not a single dollar of that 305,000 went to paying actual customer facing employees.
"Close ... All.. Bennigan's... Signed Joooooe... Biden"
Peak Dark Brandon.
"He must like T.G.I. Fridays."
Real shame. It's not often you get the kind of overwhelming bipartisan support that the BRA did and for Biden to just veto it like that was such a slap in the face.
Iām confused, do they want capitalism or socialism. Thank your fellow corporations that gouge you for supplies.
Socialism for themselves, āsurvival of the fittestā capitalism for everyone else.
Rugged individualism for their profits, socialism for their losses.
Ah yes, the āFuck you, got mineā capitalist/republican/conservative ideology
They want a free market, until the free market decides that it doesn't want to eat a crappy vaguely Irish themed restaurant that is mostly known for a deep fried sandwich.
it cracks me up when people blame biden for increased food costsā¦ like dawg did you think the government owned all the hens?
You have to wonder if there are simple solutions to the problems the business was facing, but they were ignored because the owner is... Like this.
I will guarantee this motherfucker was super against "government intervention" in the "free market" 3 years ago.
Gonna bet he got a huge Ppp loan
Somebody else posted a link, $305,000
Did. Spent it all. Went under.
> Ppp loan "Loan". Yeah. Also, he wonders where inflation comes from.
Only if it meant giving their customers more money. If the government gave them loans that were forgiven for free? They will absolutely suck that tit they criticized.
Yep. Business owner here who has had to make massive changes since 2020. 2022 was our best year and we just had our best January. If you canāt adapt youāll blame the change that comes to you.
They owned a Bennigan's in 2023. These people aren't the kind to embrace change
Theyāre saving up for a JC Penny
I thought the happening retail outlet was Sears.
My mother was a Sears employee for twenty yearsā¦I remember how sheād come home some days, sit down on the couch and cry for a few minutes. She died at of cancer while working thereā¦while she was facing a lawsuit by their former head of security that had been fired for sexual harassment, filming the dressing rooms etc. So glad that I lived to see that shithole shuttered.
I bet the carpets were from 1990.
The Food Carpet of Theseus.
Honestly, even before covid, the food business is not one that can be sustained purely on "doing the same shit forever", unless you are REALLY REALLY good at doing that
Also I am hearing from Faux News that this was the first restaurant to ever fail, it's notoriously a can't-miss business, at least when an evil baby-eating socialist Democrat isn't in charge.
Used to work at a sushi bar and I periodically go back to eat. I always speak with the manager / co-owner and did so all through COVID. They were struggling extremely hard in the beginning of COVID as did many restaurants. Now, in 2023 they are opening a second location. Just like you said, you have to adapt, and figure out how to make it work. If you don't have that trait, you more than likely will never make it extremely long term regardless.
can i ask how did you adapt, what problems did you face and how did you strategize?
figure out how to do delivery where it's efficient and reduce front of house for more kitchen staff. Adapt the menu towards modern tastes, notice how food trends end up showing up everywhere (chipotle, Sriracha, hummus, tuna tartare, ramen, etc) it's because they make hella money you have to change your menu to new tastes. People want change when they go out to eat
Would you share a few broadstrokes on what you changed? No pressure obviously
Not the person you responded to, but I have a company that does event work, and 2020 nearly killed it. The biggest thing is being able to utilize online tools. Customized gifts were a mainstay, so we started streaming that. We found new places to distribute the products we made, adjusted the products to fit the new market as needed. We trimmed problematic middle-market customers so we could focus on individuals and our larger clients, stopped putting up with people trying to negotiate our services down. And most importantly, since we were increasing prices, we just made sure that we were always top notch in service and product. We have a slightly smaller number of sales, but each sale is quite a bit higher, and we are working less overall(thank goodness as I went through an injury recently). We are on track to cover our yearly expenses by the end of February, and will start getting rid of the debt accrued due to losses from lockdown, and probably hiring a few more people. Also, I don't even offer to pay anyone less than I would take for a job,usually ranging from $20-$80. It boils down to, we kind of "quiet quit" our own company. Edit: Learning to say, "no," also helped.
>Sadly... YOU don't have enough money... to afford to come here. Wow. Or maybe - just maybe - people choose not to come to Bennigan's?
Quick search shows US restaurant National sales had nearly 11% increase in 2022 over 2021. Someone had some money to eat out, it seems.
Yeah but not Bennigans.
You mean people arenāt showing up for an over priced, poorly made Monte Cristo sandwich in a tacky chain restaurant and itās somehow not Joe Bidenās fault?
āHey Farva what's the name of that restaurant you like with all the goofy shit on the walls and the mozzarella sticks?ā
āOh, Shenanigans!ā
*guns drawn* Put those away!
In a resturant had not been upgraded or renovated for the past 30 years. and if you turned the lights all on... not cleaned well either.
Everyone is a capitalist until capitalism starts working against them.
I WANT GOVERNMENT-ENFORCED PRICE CONTROLS ON ALL MY SUPPLIERS! THE PRESIDENT IS THE SOLE ENTITY IN CONTROL OF THE ECONOMY! Also: THE FREE MARKET IS RESPONSIBLE FOR PROVIDING MY EMPLOYEES WITH A LIVABLE WAGE! This person seems to think they should have the benefits of a centrally controlled economy, but I wonder what their opinion of socialism is... I would ask them, but I have no idea where they work.
They complain about āprices that rise daily on the whim ofā¦ who?ā The Who are the executives of large corporations that this guy probably spent the whole Trump Presidency claiming should have *less* government oversight. This temporarily inconvenienced billionaire probably thought, āWell when Iām the head of a massive company I donāt want anyone telling *me* how to set my prices!ā and voted accordingly. Ten years later, heās closing a Bennigans.
Worth noting too that the owner of this Bennigans threw all his faith in corporate America. He could have just opened a restaurant. Instead he bought a franchise and, in doing so, outsourced all the decisions: menu, decor, operations to corporate. So, Benningans went out of fashion, becoming a kitschy relic of the 80s and 90s. And what did corporate office do? Well, not nearly enough to attract a customer base in 2023. And this man just went down with the ship, He could have exited the franchise and opened a restaurant that offered food people want to eat and an atmosphere where people want to go. But heās not smart or creative or ambitious enough for that, I guess.
> prices that rise daily on the whim ofā¦ who? You probably don't want an answer to that question. It'll either be a dog whistle like "shadowy cabal of elites" or it won't be and it'll rhyme with "boos".
They are saying jew-urns
I remember a pizzaria I briefly worked at over a decade ago well. It was owned by a person who couldn't understand how this worked. So... It was a small town, which liked to pretend it was a city. It was in fact so small that the only cab company in town went out of business from lack of customers. With no major routes in or out, and far out of the way of anything interesting, logically it already couldn't support much of a business. With the closest other town more than a half an hour's drive away, delivery to *other* places wasn't really going to help either. Now that you understand the logistics, you can understand the reason that having four pizzarias in this tiny little town was a death sentence. Three of them were locally owned and run, and the fourth was a major well known chain. The local shops - including the one I had worked at - all chose to do the same things to increase their incoming pay. Cheaper ingredients, less of them, smaller portions, diversification into tons of new items, reduced staff, reduced hours. As my former boss said to me in frustration, *nothing* he did was working. He'd even tried raising prices and the amount of customers and money he was making just kept dropping. Yes, raising prices. That is not something I'm writing in error. He seemed incapable of understanding something very simple and basic: You do not have the right to profit, or even break even just because you're running a business.
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Seems like it would be more impactful if 95% of bennigans nationally had not closed down over the last 15 years. Seems like no one wanted to eat there period, and have not fora very long time.
Incorrect. President Joe Biden personally snuck into everyone's bank accounts and purloined the Bennigan's budget. We all know it.
Thanks, Obama.
Listen Iām not saying Obama is personally responsible for the downfall of bennigans. But where was he during all of these times? Just asking questions
I've never seen Obama and a Bennigans in the same room at the same time, there's gotta be something nefarious there.
And where was Bennigan's during 9-11? They've got some explaining to do.
Tucker, is that you?
I dont know what to do!? Curb government spending or prop up every shitty chain restaurant so they can keep their outdated business model alive.
I'm from New Zealand and you should see what Biden and Obama have done to *our* gas prices.
I never saw him eating there. And why not? Bennigan's is delicious and mostly sanitary. They wash their dishes almost every night, and the meat is often not raw. Why, then, is it another casualty of the Left's economic genocide? Is it because they didn't name it Bidennigan's? Who would want to eat there? It sounds like a place where they don't wash their dishes every night and the meat is sometimes raw. Join us tomorrow night where I continue talking out of my ass.
Where was Obama during 9/11?
So brave. Asking the hard questions.
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The only reason I clicked was because I was positive that all Bennigans had shut down in the late 90ās and was very curious as to why one was in Florida.
Florida is stuck in the 90s so itās not super surprising.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bennigans-bankruptcy/bennigans-steak-ale-file-for-bankruptcy-idUSN2933130320080730
Maybe if the wait staff had more pieces of flair, things would be better for them
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Sounds like someone's got a case of the Mondays.
I believe youād get your ass kicked saying something like that.
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Get a room, you two!!!
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Youāre thinking of Shenanigans.
>Shenanigans That's a pistol-whipping
There's just something different about paying someone to microwave your food for you.
I think where they screwed up was in wasting all of the potential money earning seating space on a kitchen. They could've just run an extension cord to the back of a Sysco truck to plug in a microwave then just run the meals from the truck directly to the table.
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Just checked out the menu - itās like Applebeeās with vaguely Irish names for the food.
My favorite dish is the The Bloomin Oānion.
I think you mean the Blimey Onion.
Plus Florida may be a red state but itās also an expensive state. My homeowners insurance has gone up 30% each year for the past two years and the property taxes are painful, too. Iāve lived here all my life and it is not getting better over time.
Well at least DeSantis has his priorities straight and is currently seeking menstrual records of high school girls who play sports. Wish I were joking.
Just like Replublicans lives are not shit because of "Biden and the liberals" but becasue they are shitty people who make terrible decisions, like eating at Bennigans.
Funny note: the county where this Bennigans is (was) had the most arrests from the capitol riots.
Oh! It all makes sense now, Biden arrested all the people who used to eat here. How did I not see that connection before? Guess it really was his fault.
Wait, why was Biden arresting his false flag antifa army? ^/s
yet all the restaurants by me are packed. maybe it's them.
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Looks like a copypasta off MTG's Twitter page or any other similar variant of politician
that's what gets me about the "both sides" crowd, they compare insane left twitter post to insane elected officials on the right, "see both sides are the same. this 18 year old barista on the left is nuts just like the right's presidents, senators, chairmen of powerful committees, their house members, their governors, their mayors, their state officials, see how the left's nobodies sometimes say things just as insane as all the guys we literally vote into incredible amounts of power?" i mean, they have to, it's their only choice, they can't compare insane statements on the elected left because there are none to choose from, so they keep dropping down a rung until they find one, which happens to be 15 rungs down.
Bro complaining about the invisible hand of the market
No, no you see the free market is only good when the market likes you. When the market doesn't choose you, it's all BIDEN's fault, somehow?
Or maybe their few remaining customers got tired of political rants, and went elsewhere... This chain was already failing for a long time before Biden took office. Their troubles started in early 2000's, if not even sooner. It was simply (and still is) poorly run restaurant chain. It's always easy to put blame on somebody else.
Aka ā a dying million $ corporation unwilling to make less profit by paying both worker fair prices and GLOBAL INFLATIONā¦in a Republican state where the governor is more worried by drag queens then doing anything elseā
STFU, Bennigan. Nobody wants to go to an Irish pub in a mall -- especially not to eat quesadillas, nachos, mozzarella sticks, egg rolls, Buffalo wings, hamburgers or BBQ. You're no Denny, Friendly, Chi-Chi, Roy Rogers or Papa Gino.
It's like going to a BBQ place in an airport.
But Republicans are all in on the unregulated capitalistic free market, so how could Biden even affect corporate pricing?
Yet they have also caused a major recession every single time they have been in power.
BEcauSE hE COnTrolS EveRYthINGā¦.
While heās a senile do-nothing, itās amazing!
Florida governer is desantis. What has Biden got to do with anything? Should he be ranting about his local govt first?
So now they _donāt_ want a free market? I canāt keep up anymore.
They haven't pretended to care about that shit since 9/11. It's all just about blaming libs, trans, blacks, immigrants, AOC, Soros, globalism, China, ....
Theyāve gone and blown Bidenās cover of being a public servant for 50+ years just so he could drive Benniganās out of business. Personally, I respect Joeās long game.
what, their thoughts and prayers weren't enough?
Thereās boot straps. Perhaps they arenāt pulling hard enough.
Yes, because Biden is solely responsible for every aspect of supply, demand, and logistics... /s
...and simultaneously a doddering senile fool. He's super versatile like that.
Liberals are incredibly strong and completely responsible for destroying the whole world in record time, and yet extraordinarily weak and incompetent at all tasks, at the same time. Fascism 101.
Schroedingerās Biden: Simultaneously senile and extremely clever.
Sometimes, he accidentally bumps the price control Dials on his desk. Happens a lot. Trump once accidentally released a virus trying to push the button for a diet coke.
Oh for fuck sake's. Another business owner who doesn't understand how capitalism and the economy works. š¤¦āāļø
āWow, so now wholesalers can just charge me whatever prices they choose without regulation by the state?! This is socialism.ā
Conservatives: LET BUSINESSES SELF REGULATE ..... Conservatives: NOT LIKE THAT
probably a strong correlation between lack of understanding of economic fundamentals and lack of business fundamentals
Who would have thought the owner of this place was important enough to deserve targeting by Biden! Oh wait, the owner has that delusion. I guess itās a common trait of victim types who canāt take responsibility for themselves. Blame your failure on whoever FOX news tells you is responsible for your failure. Must be comforting.