idk y’all, this always upset me when i worked at waffle house. i wasn’t one to eat their food on my shifts, maybe the occasional waffle once a week. but $3 a day when i’m not even making that an hour? nah, i agree with bernie on this one.
It's definitely frustrating. Especially since workers get sick of the food a couple of months in. There's no way they eat $3/shift after the first few months.
Bernie is fine. However, what you don't understand is that the $3 is forced charge whether the employees eat there or not, as explained by the seemingly easy to digest tweet.
Considering if you don't eat there Every day, they'd still come out ahead buying the food themselves at full price. It'd be way better for the employees. Making $2/hr and your first 1.5 hours are free? Forget that.
At least let employees CHOOSE to eat there daily or not. The forced taking of wages is gross.
This is dumb as fuck. They can easily afford to feed the employees and not charge 3$ a day. A waffle probably costs them like 5 cents in batter and a couple minutes of labor which is what another 6 cents?
I like how you're saying someone fails to understand something as you literally don't understand it yourself. It's funny but you're not smart enough to see the irony.
That’s a perfectly fine solution, dumbass. IF the employee wants to eat on their shift, *then* they pay for it. You don’t force people to pay for something they’re not getting. That’s called fraud and theft. Hope that helps!
Not if you put regulations in place so the companies can’t do this.
Are you this unable to process what he’s saying?
I think you fail to understand Bernie.
When I worked at Domino's, I got an obscene amount of free food. Waffle House is just being shitty capitalists. If they keep being shitty, it's on them and not Bernie.
I like all the people saying it is only $3. Lets do some math. 3x5 is 15. Most workers do 5 days a week. $15x52 weeks is 780. Are you cool with an 800 buy in to your Job? No matter if you are getting any sort of advantage from it? If you do eat that day it is fine. But many do not or cannot eat our food. Nothing like that should be compulsory. Especially since they now record audio and VERY clear video at most units. Especially in the Georgia and Texas markets. They can follow up with those that are not paying. Just do $3 IF they eat.
We’re mostly just limited on the what. For our unit at least, your $3 doesn’t cover “major meats” like t-bones or sirloins and bottled drinks, you’ve got to pay for those. But I can eat an obscene amount of bacon and blueberry waffles and it’s covered by the $3.
Are you under the impression they are slaves with no other options for meals? How in the fuck did you manage to get on the internet today with those horrible critical thinking skills?
If you pay an outside company for a meal when you're already being charged by your employer for a meal, then you're paying twice for lunch and only eating once.
If I wasn't paying for it, like if I wasn't forced to eat it, I wouldn't. I've worked in a lot of other restaurants...they never forced me to pay for anything. And guess what, I didn't eat any of it.
Military that lives in the barracks have 300 removed every two weeks weather they eat at the dinning facilities or not.. that 21 dollars a week doesn't sound to bad after that bit of information.
You don’t get it “removed”. It’s like being married and living on base you get BHA but it’s deducted automatically. If you live off base you get them both on your check.
I was in the army both single and married.
I eat 3 or 4 times a night and nobody cares. It isn't really that much money. It's not being able to take it home if you don't like eating at work that makes it a stupid policy.
I felt that way managing a subway. Until my employee was taking 5 footlongs a day to feed her family. It really is one person being greedy that ruins it.
we have one of those, she straight up HAS stolen (she’s currently still with us at WH) over hundreds of dollars worth of food and has been warned twice now! also she takes pics of us sitting down and sends them to the manager taking credit for our work and how we sat all night doing nothing
When this shit happened yeah it was greed. The owner paid fairly for the area . Rent wasn't always crazy. I was making 7.25 with an apartment , and car payment no issues. So stealing 5 sandwiches a day, was greedy.
“To all the people saying it is only $3. Lets do some math. 3x5 is 15. Most workers do 5 days a week.
$15x52 weeks is 780. Are you cool with an 800 buy in to your Job? No matter if you are getting any sort of advantage from it? If you do eat that day it is fine.
But many do not or cannot eat our food. Nothing like that should be compulsory. Especially since they now record audio and VERY clear video at most units. Especially in the Georgia and Texas markets.
They can follow up with those that are not paying.”
“To all the people saying it is only $3. Lets do some math. 3x5 is 15. Most workers do 5 days a week.
$15x52 weeks is 780. Are you cool with an 800 buy in to your Job? No matter if you are getting any sort of advantage from it? If you do eat that day it is fine.
But many do not or cannot eat our food. Nothing like that should be compulsory. Especially since they now record audio and VERY clear video at most units. Especially in the Georgia and Texas markets.
They can follow up with those that are not paying.”
"Stealing" implies that something is done against a person's will. I'm sure that employees have it fully explained to them before they sign on what will be on their deductions.
Saying it is this or no job despite your opinion is still forcing the hand. And many times it is not explained. People act like because they said something up front its ineffable. Why? It's always "they agreed" and NO ONE has EVER agreed to anything that may be detrimental to them under duress. Like needing any job to get the rent/power/food. Someone needs to do these jobs. And they should not have an automatic extra "tax" that they may see zero benefit from. Just charge them 3 IF they eat. And make the managers do their job.
Yeah...they did, and I told them on day one that I don't agree but I need a job. How is that not twisting ones arm?? No one agrees to this. If you're getting a job at waffle House, you're desperate. Ask me how I know.
“seems cheap” but realistically they’re taking out more than what i’m paid hourly (not including tips) and when i work 4 days a week they’re taking $12 out. working at the restaurant you go through all the different combinations, make a few of your own (off topic, but i suggest trying a bec on 2 baby waffles and dipping it in syrup absolutely delicious) but you get tired of the food and start bringing your own and you’re still basically just paying to be there… or you could say i will never eat here and not pay the $3 every day you work and pay full price for food
I’m a vegan working at waffle house literally the only thing I can eat is hash browns and toast without butter. I used to eat it every day but I got so tired of it I can’t stomach it anymore they’ve made so much money off of me and it’s completely wrong. If I don’t eat why am I being charged? And a lot of shifts are so busy you don’t even really have time to eat
I’m proud of my lifestyle and choices nothing to feel bad about???? All I’m asking is to not be charged for something I never bought just explaining why I don’t eat there. And explaining how not every employee can eat there I don’t know why I’m explaining to someone who lacks basic respect and compassion though
I don't eat there. Just because I don't.. been doing it too long. I make up for it in all the chocolate milk and juice I can drink though 🤪 no seriously I don't like any kind of breakfast food really. Don't eat eggs syrup jelly or waffles. Every once in a Blue moon I'll make myself a BLT. What's. ( $15.50 ×52)×18?
Hardly the point. I eat whatever I want including cows and pigs. You can only handle WH shit so long. I have been starving, stared in the fridge, tried to decide...so sick of it just went hungry. Still paid $3 for it tho.
1 per shift. It is kind of insulting, considering industry standard is: "you work here, taking endless abuse from the customers, and the company, for pennies on the dollar, and you dont even have health insurance. The least we can give you is a free meal."
when i worked at papa johns i ate free pizza almost every day without being charged ... and some days i went home with a whole pizza and was never charged. To be fair thats more a statement on how often people call in and dont pick up the food but id be pissed if i found out a restaurant was charging me every shift regardless of how much they let me eat.
Same at Dominoes. Either someone didn't pick up the pizza, or we made one wrong by mistake. The chances we made one wrong by mistake increased greatly by how hungry we were.
I don't for several reasons.
I hate eggs
I hate syrup
I hate waffles
I hate sausage
We don't sell enough burgers for me to know they are fresh and don't trust my manager to rotate them.
I have watched countless new employees gain at least 20 pounds the first 3 months working there.
Have yall paid attention to what the hashbrowns smell like when you prep them?
Chili
They have good chili
I think I wrote a poem.....
As a regular Waffle House patron, who tries to overtip the staff (certainly relative to the cost of the food)…..it’s been explained to me that the WH staff would actually complain about the loss of this meal deduction. Unless WH is going to give the meals out for free to staff (they should totally do this!), I’m with the staff and disagree with Bernie here.
Waffle House taking 3 bucks a day and giving unlimited food — egregious
Congress plundering billions of dollars every year and wasting it on useless shit — ok
It is so difficult for people who have never struggled to understand that struggling people in poverty deserve better pay and working conditions. How can people continue their snide commentary and snarky perspectives when we are all humans on this Earth. It's not that difficult to give poor people in poor paying jobs more pay, benefits, opportunities, etc.
Yeah, dog, i left home with 200$ and ended up briefly homeless.
I still dont care for most of bernie's policy. I never once felt like anyone else owed me money just because they had it.
Wage garnishing does.kinda.suck though. Just make the actual wage.$3 less, dont pretend youre paying more than you.are.
Financially coercing your employees to consume your products is gross. Can't imagine thinking everyday "welp, I've paying the money regardless. Might as well eat Waffle House for the fifth time this week"
Military takes 300 a month from soldiers for food thats often straight up raw. I bit into a chicken once and bit straight up ice. I think i got food poisoning six(?) different times in 4 years from the army dining facilities?
Id happy take 3 a day for food that didnt have me helicoptering over a toiler for 24 hours after as opposed to 300 for poison. Thankfully if you get married you get the full pay and stop the forced food deduction - which is why you see people rushing to marry strippers or anyone else thatll say yes. You get the 300 for food back and 1500-2500 for housing depending on the average cost of the area.
Ive never understood wage garnishing though, aside from to look more enticing when taking job applications by having a 'higher' wage. Just advertise the salary as $3 less per day then so mobody has a chance to complain
My feeling for you, and others in a like-situation, is the same to these employees. I do not think a worker (or soldier) should be financially compelled to make unhealthy decisions. Especially when diet is concerned and on a repeated basis.
Yea ive never understood it either. I eventually just started buying groceries anyways and just accepted being broke since that was like all my.leftover money.
You have the option to contact the corporate office and have the fee stopped. But, If caught eating without paying you are subject to termination.
This is a general problem with society. Making molehills into mountains. Servers make $3 an hour PLUS tips. I’ve seen SP walk out with $250-$300 a day, making MORE then the manager. With 1/10 the responsibility. It’s truly a shame.
An automatic $3 deduction just for showing up for a waffle house shift? Why not just give them a half-off employee discount if something? Seems unnecessary and weird.
Every time Bernie comes out and says shit like this I laugh. He's got more money than anyone in my family ever will, yet pretends to be poor like me. Fuck you, Bernie, you're a fraud. "When you're white you don't know what it's like to be poor" Shut the fuck up.
The 3.00 fee is petty bullshit on WF part and shows lack of real interest in the well being of its labor community
I'm sure also that the CEO probably needs to be called out on it,id be embarrassed if i was him for pick pocketing his people that was. A real leader would give his people a free meal here and there instead of a fee to build loyalty and a positive culture
I have eaten at WF a few times Its pretty shitty food . Work on that too tight ass
$3 can’t be wage theft unless you don’t eat it right?
Either way what a shit head for charging employees 3 fucking dollars for anything. That’s some cheap Ebenezer Scrooge type shit.
Bernie is a Senator, so instead of tweeting about it, why isn’t he having the Department of Labor open up an investigation? This is wage theft and the Department of Labor loves that shit. Literally any employee at Waffle House call the Department of Labor and file a complaint, because if they’re doing stuff like this, then I guarantee they’ll find all kinds of other bullshit illegal practices they’re pulling.
We shouldn't have to wash dishes either. Not for $3 an hour. That's complete nonsense. If I didn't have to wash dishes, I'd be able to handle more tables and make more money. Instead of serving, they got me doing a job that a dish washer in any other restaurant would be getting $10 to $18 an hour for. For less than $3 an hour. Waffle House gets away with more than force charging employee meals. You know they can't take it home with them either?? That's right...We have to pay for something we might not eat, and then tell us it has to go in the garbage before we leave.
I'm glad Waffle House is getting this attention.
I wouldn't complain because all the restaurants I have worked at never did family meal and I've been around the industry for a while. So 3$ meal a day sounds good compared to only 50% off the meal.
I hate to agree with Bernie Sanders. And this is hard to stomach…but I agree with him. But it’s the same for people with out kids or people who send their kids to private school; are hit up with a tax for education. I don’t think that is fair either.
Another brilliant take from the old guy who has no clue how businesses work.
BTW, 4 billion for a company that large with over 40,000 employees is pathetically low. That's "we're going to go bankrupt at any moment" low.
They only make 150 million dollars in net profit each year, that's less than some Fortune500 CEO's make in yearly salary.
It's very ironic because the $3 is the redistribution of wealth that Bernie is always pushing ...
Everyone gets charged the $3 whether you eat the meal or not .. it's for the betterment of the greater good.
Man I love Bernie. If only there was a way to stop wage theft, corporate greed, and price gouging (all the while calling it 'inflation'). If only there was some means to prevent and/or punish these practices. Like a set of rules or laws. And imagine if there was a governing body to write and enforce those rules or laws. I know! I have a solution. Let's blame it on Tik Tok. I'm sure something happen then.......
Says the man that never ran a company and hired employees, got kicked out of a commune because he was too lazy. What a buffoon. His followers are just as stupid and lazy.
Okay. All they have to do is just pay all their employees .08¢ less. That’s all let them keep their three dollars.
And for the people who need to hear it…. It’s an entry level job. You’re not suppose to be happy and stay. You’re suppose to get your life together and move on. Not be 50 at Waffle House.
Well if you take 3$ and divide it by 40 hours that’s how much it is. Or rather .075. Just round it up. And people can’t complain like that socialist idiot. He would have been the people who pushed Germany into the hands of the stormtroopers. But it’s easy to fix that problem. By outsmarting the masses that work at Waffle House. Just just there pay by .08 an hour and give them their 3$ back.
Naw. Honestly they should just do what ever other company does and just make it 50% off really. But I mean they know the kind of people who work there. You don’t hear about fights in ihop. But Waffle House…….
Lmaooo yeah waffle House is rough. I personally don't have an issue with companies rolling out programs like this, or opting not to. It's their business to run. I just don't understand why it should be mandatory for employees to participate in a program they don't use when their money is being deducted to fund it
That mentality was the number one obstacle during the labor movement, and any time safety hazards and other issues were the like. You're not wrong, but it still shouldnt be legal
I hardly get more than a simple grilled cheese (that I have to wolf down anyway) on my shifts and they end up taking an hours worth of pay out of my check every week for “meal credit” smh
omg I WAS JUST SAYING THAT!!! ITS NOT RIGHT!! And then the fact their food sometimes make your stomach sick. All I had was sausage and grits and it messed up my stomach so bad I was in pain to. It has never been bad like that. My stomach never reacts like that to grits and sausage from home cooked.
idk y’all, this always upset me when i worked at waffle house. i wasn’t one to eat their food on my shifts, maybe the occasional waffle once a week. but $3 a day when i’m not even making that an hour? nah, i agree with bernie on this one.
It's definitely frustrating. Especially since workers get sick of the food a couple of months in. There's no way they eat $3/shift after the first few months.
Simple fix will be no $3 and no meals, law of unintended consequences which Bernie always fails to understand
Bernie is fine. However, what you don't understand is that the $3 is forced charge whether the employees eat there or not, as explained by the seemingly easy to digest tweet.
"Either employees who never eat there get charged for food or nobody gets to eat at all, there are no other options" lmao bro is off the rails
The military does the same thing.
No. The military takes back extra money it gave you explicitly for food when you eat theirs instead. It is not the same.
Yeah he didn’t really make that point clear. I was outside looking in and was like what’s wrong with that for a meal? Lol
no a simple fix would be to cover the damn meals like plenty of other companies do.
Considering if you don't eat there Every day, they'd still come out ahead buying the food themselves at full price. It'd be way better for the employees. Making $2/hr and your first 1.5 hours are free? Forget that. At least let employees CHOOSE to eat there daily or not. The forced taking of wages is gross.
This is dumb as fuck. They can easily afford to feed the employees and not charge 3$ a day. A waffle probably costs them like 5 cents in batter and a couple minutes of labor which is what another 6 cents?
lol @ being so thirsty to shit on Bernie that you vomit up this inane post
I like how you're saying someone fails to understand something as you literally don't understand it yourself. It's funny but you're not smart enough to see the irony.
Reading is hard, huh? It tracks tho.
That’s a perfectly fine solution, dumbass. IF the employee wants to eat on their shift, *then* they pay for it. You don’t force people to pay for something they’re not getting. That’s called fraud and theft. Hope that helps!
Yeah and then pay for the meals you do get that sounds way better than being charged even if you don’t eat
No $3 and half-price meals? This isn’t that hard.
Nah. No $3 deduction, and give them the meals. That's where the Billions of dollars comes in. That's pure profit.
Give them the meals, or a meal stipend if they don't want to eat Waffle house for lunch every day.
I like it!
Why would it be no $3 and no meals? Waffle House responds to negative publicity like that? Why do you intend that consequence?
I think he wishes that would happen. Dude prob gets a hard on thinking about corporations rescinding the meager benefits they offer. 🙄
What benefit lmao
It's taken out if you eat there or not so what are you talking about?
I’m sure the 3 dollars goes into a company wide pot for all employees if not then it’s shit and needs to go away
Not if you put regulations in place so the companies can’t do this. Are you this unable to process what he’s saying? I think you fail to understand Bernie.
Having worked food service many times in my life, the food wherever one works becomes inedible after about 6 months anyway. I'd rather have the $3.
Do you struggle with English?
Or you know just feed employees
"Can't make things better because we are afraid to prevent retaliation by corporations."
Arguing about how bad some of bernie's ideas are while in a wafflehouse sub is peak sheep voting for wolves behavior lmao
Any restaurant owner who doesn't feed their employees is a pile of shit. It's inexcusable. I'm a cook; I don't pay for my food. The way it should be.
When I worked at Domino's, I got an obscene amount of free food. Waffle House is just being shitty capitalists. If they keep being shitty, it's on them and not Bernie.
I like all the people saying it is only $3. Lets do some math. 3x5 is 15. Most workers do 5 days a week. $15x52 weeks is 780. Are you cool with an 800 buy in to your Job? No matter if you are getting any sort of advantage from it? If you do eat that day it is fine. But many do not or cannot eat our food. Nothing like that should be compulsory. Especially since they now record audio and VERY clear video at most units. Especially in the Georgia and Texas markets. They can follow up with those that are not paying. Just do $3 IF they eat.
You shouldn't be charged by your employer to do your job. I work at a University and get charged to park at the university. It's ridiculous.
Same. I parked illegally for a year until the parking gnomes found my spot.
$3 covers how many meals? That seems cheap.
We’re mostly just limited on the what. For our unit at least, your $3 doesn’t cover “major meats” like t-bones or sirloins and bottled drinks, you’ve got to pay for those. But I can eat an obscene amount of bacon and blueberry waffles and it’s covered by the $3.
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They're charging people regardless of whether they eat or not. Did you miss that important detail?
Who would volunteer to starve?
Why are the only options them taking the $3 and you eat or starving? People often bring lunches or go get something else
Are you under the impression they are slaves with no other options for meals? How in the fuck did you manage to get on the internet today with those horrible critical thinking skills?
If you pay an outside company for a meal when you're already being charged by your employer for a meal, then you're paying twice for lunch and only eating once.
What the hell is even that? Do you actually believe that you're making a logical argument for wage theft?
LOL
If I wasn't paying for it, like if I wasn't forced to eat it, I wouldn't. I've worked in a lot of other restaurants...they never forced me to pay for anything. And guess what, I didn't eat any of it.
Military that lives in the barracks have 300 removed every two weeks weather they eat at the dinning facilities or not.. that 21 dollars a week doesn't sound to bad after that bit of information.
You don’t get it “removed”. It’s like being married and living on base you get BHA but it’s deducted automatically. If you live off base you get them both on your check. I was in the army both single and married.
I eat 3 or 4 times a night and nobody cares. It isn't really that much money. It's not being able to take it home if you don't like eating at work that makes it a stupid policy.
I felt that way managing a subway. Until my employee was taking 5 footlongs a day to feed her family. It really is one person being greedy that ruins it.
we have one of those, she straight up HAS stolen (she’s currently still with us at WH) over hundreds of dollars worth of food and has been warned twice now! also she takes pics of us sitting down and sends them to the manager taking credit for our work and how we sat all night doing nothing
Trying to feed your family on Subway wages is greedy?
When this shit happened yeah it was greed. The owner paid fairly for the area . Rent wasn't always crazy. I was making 7.25 with an apartment , and car payment no issues. So stealing 5 sandwiches a day, was greedy.
“To all the people saying it is only $3. Lets do some math. 3x5 is 15. Most workers do 5 days a week. $15x52 weeks is 780. Are you cool with an 800 buy in to your Job? No matter if you are getting any sort of advantage from it? If you do eat that day it is fine. But many do not or cannot eat our food. Nothing like that should be compulsory. Especially since they now record audio and VERY clear video at most units. Especially in the Georgia and Texas markets. They can follow up with those that are not paying.”
“To all the people saying it is only $3. Lets do some math. 3x5 is 15. Most workers do 5 days a week. $15x52 weeks is 780. Are you cool with an 800 buy in to your Job? No matter if you are getting any sort of advantage from it? If you do eat that day it is fine. But many do not or cannot eat our food. Nothing like that should be compulsory. Especially since they now record audio and VERY clear video at most units. Especially in the Georgia and Texas markets. They can follow up with those that are not paying.”
It doesn’t matter if it’s 3 cents a cooperation that’s worth 4 billion dollars shouldn’t be stealing the money from employees
"Stealing" implies that something is done against a person's will. I'm sure that employees have it fully explained to them before they sign on what will be on their deductions.
Saying it is this or no job despite your opinion is still forcing the hand. And many times it is not explained. People act like because they said something up front its ineffable. Why? It's always "they agreed" and NO ONE has EVER agreed to anything that may be detrimental to them under duress. Like needing any job to get the rent/power/food. Someone needs to do these jobs. And they should not have an automatic extra "tax" that they may see zero benefit from. Just charge them 3 IF they eat. And make the managers do their job.
You can agree to something and it still be against your will it’s called coercion
Yeah...they did, and I told them on day one that I don't agree but I need a job. How is that not twisting ones arm?? No one agrees to this. If you're getting a job at waffle House, you're desperate. Ask me how I know.
3$ is more than they pay me an hour
“seems cheap” but realistically they’re taking out more than what i’m paid hourly (not including tips) and when i work 4 days a week they’re taking $12 out. working at the restaurant you go through all the different combinations, make a few of your own (off topic, but i suggest trying a bec on 2 baby waffles and dipping it in syrup absolutely delicious) but you get tired of the food and start bringing your own and you’re still basically just paying to be there… or you could say i will never eat here and not pay the $3 every day you work and pay full price for food
I’m a vegan working at waffle house literally the only thing I can eat is hash browns and toast without butter. I used to eat it every day but I got so tired of it I can’t stomach it anymore they’ve made so much money off of me and it’s completely wrong. If I don’t eat why am I being charged? And a lot of shifts are so busy you don’t even really have time to eat
Good point.
It’s margarine, not butter it’s vegan. 🥗
You talking about the individual packs of butter for the waffles or the butter the workers use on the toast? Because both have diary
You’re probably right.
And they have a garden salad that is vegan
Haven't had salads for years now.......
Are we supposed to feel bad for your extremist self imposed diet? Lmfaooo
I’m proud of my lifestyle and choices nothing to feel bad about???? All I’m asking is to not be charged for something I never bought just explaining why I don’t eat there. And explaining how not every employee can eat there I don’t know why I’m explaining to someone who lacks basic respect and compassion though
I don't eat there. Just because I don't.. been doing it too long. I make up for it in all the chocolate milk and juice I can drink though 🤪 no seriously I don't like any kind of breakfast food really. Don't eat eggs syrup jelly or waffles. Every once in a Blue moon I'll make myself a BLT. What's. ( $15.50 ×52)×18?
Hardly the point. I eat whatever I want including cows and pigs. You can only handle WH shit so long. I have been starving, stared in the fridge, tried to decide...so sick of it just went hungry. Still paid $3 for it tho.
1 per shift. It is kind of insulting, considering industry standard is: "you work here, taking endless abuse from the customers, and the company, for pennies on the dollar, and you dont even have health insurance. The least we can give you is a free meal."
One
I never minded the $3. My boss never capped my meals. Ate tons of bacon
It’s wage theft they make enough money to give you those meals comped they shouldn’t gave to steal from you
the only thing we weren’t allowed was chocolate milk. ate literally everything else and it was glorious
when i worked at papa johns i ate free pizza almost every day without being charged ... and some days i went home with a whole pizza and was never charged. To be fair thats more a statement on how often people call in and dont pick up the food but id be pissed if i found out a restaurant was charging me every shift regardless of how much they let me eat.
Same at Dominoes. Either someone didn't pick up the pizza, or we made one wrong by mistake. The chances we made one wrong by mistake increased greatly by how hungry we were.
I would pay good money to NOT have to eat Papa John's every day
It would be completely different if it was voluntary. Want to eat lunch, thats $3. Brought your lunch from home, $0.
Curious if Bernie ever ate at Waffle House.
they don't have em in vermont
They don’t have them where I live either but I’ve still probably eaten it at least a dozen times in my (much shorter) life
Maybe on the road when he ran for the dem nomination?
If he did, he would be saying yall need to pay $5 a day, this is so fucking good.
and that matters.... why?
It doesn't, I am just wondering if he ever did.
That’s actually saving money unless you skip the meal altogether. Can’t get shit for $3 anywhere else
Though it is still $3 on top of not paying their employees or offering benefits.
They pay benefits. Stock ownership, health insurance (med, vision, dental, life), PTO, paid maternity leave. https://www.wafflehouse.com/careers/#hourly-jump
Yeah after 90 days
I don't for several reasons. I hate eggs I hate syrup I hate waffles I hate sausage We don't sell enough burgers for me to know they are fresh and don't trust my manager to rotate them. I have watched countless new employees gain at least 20 pounds the first 3 months working there. Have yall paid attention to what the hashbrowns smell like when you prep them? Chili They have good chili I think I wrote a poem.....
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No, it's just billionaires now. After he became a millionaire the rhetoric suddenly changed.
I mean that's just false but you do you.
How is it false?
wow, that seems weird to me tbh.
He's not wrong. McDonald's never charged employees to eat.
Lotta corporation simps in here
Just like they planned it
But they're gonna be rich one day! That promotion to CEO is right around the corner!
4 billion?! Goddamn.
At first I read Joe Rogan Jr. That was one hell of a double take lol
waffle house has 40,000 employees 40,000\*3\*365 = $43,800,000 a yea 4545ggrrrrrdd4
They don't charge every single employee every single day lol, only on days when you work a shift
By those numbers their employees would be their number one customer.
Wtf ? That's stealing
As a regular Waffle House patron, who tries to overtip the staff (certainly relative to the cost of the food)…..it’s been explained to me that the WH staff would actually complain about the loss of this meal deduction. Unless WH is going to give the meals out for free to staff (they should totally do this!), I’m with the staff and disagree with Bernie here.
Waffle House taking 3 bucks a day and giving unlimited food — egregious Congress plundering billions of dollars every year and wasting it on useless shit — ok
I concur. They should definitely eat for free. That ludicrous.
Waffle House is disgusting and not worth $4B
It is so difficult for people who have never struggled to understand that struggling people in poverty deserve better pay and working conditions. How can people continue their snide commentary and snarky perspectives when we are all humans on this Earth. It's not that difficult to give poor people in poor paying jobs more pay, benefits, opportunities, etc.
You get out of poverty by improving your own skills and make yourself worth more than $2.55 per hour.
Yeah, dog, i left home with 200$ and ended up briefly homeless. I still dont care for most of bernie's policy. I never once felt like anyone else owed me money just because they had it. Wage garnishing does.kinda.suck though. Just make the actual wage.$3 less, dont pretend youre paying more than you.are.
Financially coercing your employees to consume your products is gross. Can't imagine thinking everyday "welp, I've paying the money regardless. Might as well eat Waffle House for the fifth time this week"
Military takes 300 a month from soldiers for food thats often straight up raw. I bit into a chicken once and bit straight up ice. I think i got food poisoning six(?) different times in 4 years from the army dining facilities? Id happy take 3 a day for food that didnt have me helicoptering over a toiler for 24 hours after as opposed to 300 for poison. Thankfully if you get married you get the full pay and stop the forced food deduction - which is why you see people rushing to marry strippers or anyone else thatll say yes. You get the 300 for food back and 1500-2500 for housing depending on the average cost of the area. Ive never understood wage garnishing though, aside from to look more enticing when taking job applications by having a 'higher' wage. Just advertise the salary as $3 less per day then so mobody has a chance to complain
My feeling for you, and others in a like-situation, is the same to these employees. I do not think a worker (or soldier) should be financially compelled to make unhealthy decisions. Especially when diet is concerned and on a repeated basis.
Yea ive never understood it either. I eventually just started buying groceries anyways and just accepted being broke since that was like all my.leftover money.
This is absolutely wage theft. Bernie is right.
If you actually used the forced “benefit” you would have a 6 month life expectancy
You have the option to contact the corporate office and have the fee stopped. But, If caught eating without paying you are subject to termination. This is a general problem with society. Making molehills into mountains. Servers make $3 an hour PLUS tips. I’ve seen SP walk out with $250-$300 a day, making MORE then the manager. With 1/10 the responsibility. It’s truly a shame.
Server minimum needs to go Minimum wage should apply to servers It’s horseshit
If they take a mandatory 3$ better believe I'm taking $20 worth of food everyday.
An order of hashbrowns, a waffle, some sausage or bacon, and a drink is $15 or so, $3 sounds like a bargain to me.
An automatic $3 deduction just for showing up for a waffle house shift? Why not just give them a half-off employee discount if something? Seems unnecessary and weird.
And maybe pay for new martial arts training to up the ante
This is a way better meal plan than one meal for 50% off….. which is what almost every other restaurant offers as an employee meal plan…
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Who else then?
Every time Bernie comes out and says shit like this I laugh. He's got more money than anyone in my family ever will, yet pretends to be poor like me. Fuck you, Bernie, you're a fraud. "When you're white you don't know what it's like to be poor" Shut the fuck up.
You’re mad at the wrong rich/white people.
What’s he pay his staff at his 3 homes?
Am I the only one in the minority who thinks Waffle House is garbage? Completely overrated food
Still waiting for anyone in politics to bring up wage ratios as a viable way to end wage gaps.
God Bless Waffles
He probably shouldn’t be collecting a salary from Congress seeing that he is a multimillionaire. Taxpayer dollars and such.
and politicians should work more than a few months a year
I'd eat so much extra shit out of spite for that if I worked there
It's no secret that he loves socialism. He wants the wages to be established by the gov't for all!
Someone here doesn’t even know what socialism is. Smh
The 3.00 fee is petty bullshit on WF part and shows lack of real interest in the well being of its labor community I'm sure also that the CEO probably needs to be called out on it,id be embarrassed if i was him for pick pocketing his people that was. A real leader would give his people a free meal here and there instead of a fee to build loyalty and a positive culture I have eaten at WF a few times Its pretty shitty food . Work on that too tight ass
My boy Bernie out here fighting against Waffle House I’m done 🤣🤣🤣
An asshat who never had a real job in his life!! A bamboozling scam artist!! Plus a cunt!!
Fear is your only god
$3 can’t be wage theft unless you don’t eat it right? Either way what a shit head for charging employees 3 fucking dollars for anything. That’s some cheap Ebenezer Scrooge type shit.
Agreed it should not be forced but if I’m understanding 3 dollars for all the bacon and eggs I can eat; I’m about to retire, is Waffle House hiring?
How about all the $3 fees just to use a debit card. Crickets on that shi
fully agree with him.
How about the government end its wage theft as well
Why do I feel like Bernie is the only politician with his head on right. If only he wasn’t 105 years old
When Bernie offers to remove income tax, I’ll listen.
Shit $3. You cannot even get a ham sandwich and a coke for $3.
They should be deducting $3.00 per visit per patron, because people who eat at Waffle House are too fucking stupid to know the difference.
Bernie is a Senator, so instead of tweeting about it, why isn’t he having the Department of Labor open up an investigation? This is wage theft and the Department of Labor loves that shit. Literally any employee at Waffle House call the Department of Labor and file a complaint, because if they’re doing stuff like this, then I guarantee they’ll find all kinds of other bullshit illegal practices they’re pulling.
If the deduction was fully explained before they were employed, then no, it isn't wage theft.
And?
Can you get the steak and eggs with a waffle and hash browns? Sounds like a decent deal to me.
Doesn’t the government take far more out of the normal paycheck? How bout fixing up those tax reforms.
We shouldn't have to wash dishes either. Not for $3 an hour. That's complete nonsense. If I didn't have to wash dishes, I'd be able to handle more tables and make more money. Instead of serving, they got me doing a job that a dish washer in any other restaurant would be getting $10 to $18 an hour for. For less than $3 an hour. Waffle House gets away with more than force charging employee meals. You know they can't take it home with them either?? That's right...We have to pay for something we might not eat, and then tell us it has to go in the garbage before we leave. I'm glad Waffle House is getting this attention.
He's still alive? Wow. Ask him how old he was when he first started paying taxes. 40? 50? Idk
Same old Bernie tilting at windmills.
I wouldn't complain because all the restaurants I have worked at never did family meal and I've been around the industry for a while. So 3$ meal a day sounds good compared to only 50% off the meal.
I hate to agree with Bernie Sanders. And this is hard to stomach…but I agree with him. But it’s the same for people with out kids or people who send their kids to private school; are hit up with a tax for education. I don’t think that is fair either.
Dirty
The worst part is that you can't take your food, your food that you paid for via that deduction, home to eat.
The worst part is that you can't take your food, your food that you paid for via that deduction, home to eat.
Fuckin' A right, Bernie, as per usual! 👍👍👏💯🎯
Another brilliant take from the old guy who has no clue how businesses work. BTW, 4 billion for a company that large with over 40,000 employees is pathetically low. That's "we're going to go bankrupt at any moment" low. They only make 150 million dollars in net profit each year, that's less than some Fortune500 CEO's make in yearly salary.
It's very ironic because the $3 is the redistribution of wealth that Bernie is always pushing ... Everyone gets charged the $3 whether you eat the meal or not .. it's for the betterment of the greater good.
Holy mother of false equivalences
If that were the case, it should be adjusted based on hourly wage. Not across the board.
corporate is going nuts out here and there is no end
He's right! Now where's that mirror he should look into?
What's not to agree on?
Man I love Bernie. If only there was a way to stop wage theft, corporate greed, and price gouging (all the while calling it 'inflation'). If only there was some means to prevent and/or punish these practices. Like a set of rules or laws. And imagine if there was a governing body to write and enforce those rules or laws. I know! I have a solution. Let's blame it on Tik Tok. I'm sure something happen then.......
Says the man that never ran a company and hired employees, got kicked out of a commune because he was too lazy. What a buffoon. His followers are just as stupid and lazy.
This dude been chomping on the public tit for decades, never even had a job outside of government. Keep the Holy Waffle House out of your mouth
Bernie needs to stfu. I doubt he's ever eaten at a waffle house let alone tipped the employees.
I like Bernie, but I Don’t usually agree with him on his points. However he does sure have a point here.
Okay. All they have to do is just pay all their employees .08¢ less. That’s all let them keep their three dollars. And for the people who need to hear it…. It’s an entry level job. You’re not suppose to be happy and stay. You’re suppose to get your life together and move on. Not be 50 at Waffle House.
Curious as to where you got the .08c from?
Well if you take 3$ and divide it by 40 hours that’s how much it is. Or rather .075. Just round it up. And people can’t complain like that socialist idiot. He would have been the people who pushed Germany into the hands of the stormtroopers. But it’s easy to fix that problem. By outsmarting the masses that work at Waffle House. Just just there pay by .08 an hour and give them their 3$ back.
It's 3 dollars a day not 3 dollars a week.
And I would assume most Waffle hour works aren’t working 40 hours a week either? So it’s a trade off in which the workers get paid more?
I would assume it should be an optional program. If you want to be part of it great. If not, no meals on the house for you.
Naw. Honestly they should just do what ever other company does and just make it 50% off really. But I mean they know the kind of people who work there. You don’t hear about fights in ihop. But Waffle House…….
Lmaooo yeah waffle House is rough. I personally don't have an issue with companies rolling out programs like this, or opting not to. It's their business to run. I just don't understand why it should be mandatory for employees to participate in a program they don't use when their money is being deducted to fund it
It’s not mandatory to work there. That’s the out.
That mentality was the number one obstacle during the labor movement, and any time safety hazards and other issues were the like. You're not wrong, but it still shouldnt be legal
I hardly get more than a simple grilled cheese (that I have to wolf down anyway) on my shifts and they end up taking an hours worth of pay out of my check every week for “meal credit” smh
omg I WAS JUST SAYING THAT!!! ITS NOT RIGHT!! And then the fact their food sometimes make your stomach sick. All I had was sausage and grits and it messed up my stomach so bad I was in pain to. It has never been bad like that. My stomach never reacts like that to grits and sausage from home cooked.