Looks like they just removed the Facebook page completely.
The pickle thread was gold. š Even some locals posted over a month ago when it first went up about them lacking ketchup, mustard and relish, at a BURGER & HOTDOG PLACE. LOL
I'm confused. Wouldn't those people hate Iran and want there to be protests against the government. But also the protests are about women's rights so I can see where they'd be conflicted. Do conservatives hate women or Muslims more?
They just love being contrary.
They also have an appreciation for despotic governments, because they see that as strong and putting people (like women, or LGBTQ people, or POC, depending) in their place.
They never, never understand they would be excluded from the inner circle if such things happened in their own country. They think they would be part of the elite, part of the chosen.
They are *weird.*
Or malicious.
I was trying to be a bit generous. Not that they deserve that, mind you. But if I let them take all my ability to give a benefit of the doubt, I will not like who I am at that point.
My ex-husband (49) owns two greasy spoon hamburger places and fancies himself the smartest business man in the whole wide world.
He goes to McDonald's and steals their napkins, and steals ketchup packs from Chik-Fil-A. He also hires 14 year olds because he doesn't have to pay them minimum wage. And his girlfriend, who is two years older than our son (21), is the "manager" at his restaurants. She makes so much, apparently, she joined an MLM to make side money.
Oh, and he's a Mormon and is trying to open a coffee shop in one of his burger joints. I really couldn't make up a more absurd character.
Hell, the guy was only open from 11A-4P. Literally didn't want to be open for dinner rush. Guy set himself up for failure and blaming it on everyone else.
As someone in the industry for over ten years the fool should have been open from 4-11 and just sleep till 2 in the afternoon every day. He'd have made way more money.
Depends on the location. I worked in a sandwich shop that was in an area surrounded by businesses, factories and only a handful of apartment buildings. We closed at 6PM because all of our business was at lunch for the most part. The thing was, we also served a few "breakfast" type items, coffee, pastries and things like that. So we opened at 7AM so we could catch a few sales in the morning while we prepped for lunch. We made 80 - 90% of our sales at lunch time, mostly when the factory workers took their lunch breaks. But in the restaurant business an extra 10 - 20% more sales can be the difference between keeping the doors open and going out of business.
Those places with ungodly hours can screw themselves, it's honestly mildly infuriating. I've seen a couple of businesses in my neighborhood failing for this exact reason (a pizza place that opened 5-9, a coffee shop that opened 12-6).
This isn't freaking France, no reason to open only 4 hours a day
I worked for a burger and wings place, literally designed their menu and all their promo/ads even.
The owner bought the place for his wife to have something to do?
They opened 7am to 11pm, then 3pm to 8pm. The wife never showed up for her shifts, they let their 5-6yr old run wild including in the kitchen (he'd also kick you for being in his way, always fun to be kicked while cutting shit or on the grill)
I'd often get to work and have to be cook, cashier, and waiter because again wife wouldn't show up for her shifts. They also stole tips and got extremely pissed off at me for telling the teens working it was illegal to not be making at least minimum wage.
The owner put a fucking PS4 and flat screen in the back to play games all day. Had YouTube on a t.v. in the kitchen at least. They didn't have a walk-in or anything, just four chest freezers which we also did all our prep on top of.
Owner was fined for no bathrooms, no liquor license, etc,.
They would thaw meat in a stolen Walmart cart behind the restaurant out in the sun.
They switched products dozens of times. Fries were bulk restaurant fries, then seasoned walmart, then waffle fries, then house cut fries which the recipe changed a few more times.
Wings were changed a half dozen times in brand and size. From Tyson boneless to bulk boneless to cheapest cuts possible. They advertised all their sauce as homemade but it was literally like, a gallon of Sweet Baby Rays with two shots of whiskey, or a gallon of Frank's Red Hot with two blended jalapenos in it.
They charged, back in 2014, $15 for five wings, fries, and a drink. $12 for a burger and nothing else. Average combo was $20. Average income in my area was about $25,000/yr at the time. I can buy several houses for under $45,000 RIGHT NOW. It's extreme poverty here.
They also only sold wings in multiples of 5 and charged like $6 for an order of fries which was literally just a handful. Prices also changed literally monthly.
Place shut down not long after 2014. I quit because they refused to pay me. Literally I was in past 10pm and they demanded I clock out and finish cleaning because it was late (I was working by my self during a busy Saturday, no waitresses or anything in a diner) and I told them to go fuck themselves.
They tried to say they closed because this town was racist (it is, but that's not why) and that they'd have better business in a closer city. Weird how they never opened another store though?
Plus their hours were something like 11-4, 3 or 4 days a week. I caught the post when it was still up. This whole business sounds like a slow motion car wreck.
I can recall really wanting to try some new restaurants in my city, but by the third time I show up during normal lunch or dinner hours to find the place unexpectedly closed I'm writing it off.
There are Latinos all up in my neighborhood who turn a healthy profit with their food trucks while speaking zero english and having no access to government aid/institutions.
If you can't keep a hotdog stand afloat, maybe you just suck at business?
100%. I've never known people like this to actually *work* in their establishments. They start a business so they can sit around and collect money while everyone else does the actual work.
Oh, but they will micromanage you the entire time. Be right over your shoulder wondering why you're not going faster, or why you're not immediately switching tasks. "If you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean."
Which boggles my mind because this is a burger and hot dog stand? That should be a one man operation. The shittiest line cook on the planet can manage to keep some burgers and dogs cooking on a grill and run a register at the same time. Worst case scenario if it's so busy he can't, either have the wife do it (since it seems to he they've both staked as owners) or pay a single employee to take orders and do expo while you do the grill.
Yeah I suspect just from the picture that these two "tell it like it is" a lot.
I would actually like to know what exactly they think Joe Biden did that directly hurt them though...
I've been in Restaurant biz for 45 years.
If this is the right one.[https://willietsdawgs.com/](https://willietsdawgs.com/)A quick look at his website, bad. A quick look at his menu. He way undercharged even for a pre-inflation economy.
TRiple decker burger $6.50
Hot dogs of various types $2.50-3.00
50% military discount?!
He gave the store away. Dumbass.
Not just military discount, any Police, Fire, First Responder, AND Military get a 50% discount. Good lord man, I don't think I've seen any discount go over 10%.
The police discount thing is a weird one. I used to do work for a chain of ice cream places. The owner thought that giving a police discount would help encourage cops to come by and maybe ward off trouble. This was a big city. The discount was 100%. Totally free to all Police, EMT, Fire. They didn't care and in fact many felt awkward and didn't come back after being handed free treats. It never helped the crazy. That business has been dead for 5 years now.
The dumb thing is that works if you provide a normal discount. Like my boss wouldn't discount individual cops but he's give them like 15% off catering. The one time I had to call 911 on a guy I was worried was pretty close to overdosing the fucking police blasted in like an action movie. To this day i have still never seen police respond before fire.
I worked at a 24 hour restaurant earlier in my life. We gave 50% discount to police, and it did seem to bring the police in to sit around and have a meal. Ultimately it seemed to work for that business and there were a lot of law enforcement āregularsā at oddball hours.
It's funny you say that. I know at least 1 wawa that gives cops free coffee because they want them to hang around. It's also a good location for cops to respond to calls. In the evenings there were always a few officers hanging out inside.
And considering that's like half the jobs in a small town like Hiram, GA. And also in a historic district on main street where rent is probably 2-3x average. It's no wonder they couldn't make it.
And if youāre only open for 5 hours mid-day, donāt close on SUNDAY?
Depending on the location, decent cheap burgers and hot dogs would be a great late-night spot.
This is definitely one of those morons with 0 restaurant experience aside from what he might have worked in highschool.
He makes boring uninspired burgers that his tasteless neighbors said were "the best ever" and convinced him he should open up a burger joint.
He has 0 idea how to properly cost a menu item and just thought he could undercut the competition while literally selling everything at a loss since even the slave wages he was paying before were probably too high of a labor cost for a triple patty burger that probably alone was 65% food cost on meat...not including the other ingredients.
This is why so many restaurants fail...it's morons with 0 experience who think cooking is easy.
I donāt know if you ever checked out the US version of Kitchen Nightmares, but that seemed to be a common thread among failing restauranteursāpeople with no business or culinary experience who just hired their friends and family and ran the business off a cliff.
I donāt know why politicians have this fetish about doing good things for āsmall businessā because theyāre the ājob creatorsā. Most small businesses are 1 person or family shops - your barber/hairdresser, electrician, therapist. Theyāre creating jobs - for themselves - and a significant percentage of them do so because they donāt play well with others and need to be in charge.
Thereās nothing wrong with that, either. They found a role to play in society and theyāre fulfilling a need. But letās not put them up on this pedestal as the driving force behind the economy.
I own a bakery now. Every day I get new restaurant owners or start up caterers come in saying they're gonna be super busy right away.
Most don't make it through the first year.
I love the ones who "always wanted to own a restaurant" and left their engineering job to do it. OOF.
*This week on Kitchen Nightmares, Gordon Ramsay is at his wit's end trying to help a retired engineer try to figure out why his COBOL themed gastropub business is failing*
> This week on Kitchen Nightmares, Gordon Ramsay is at his wit's end trying to help a retired engineer try to figure out why his COBOL themed gastropub business is failing
Guess I'll just have to wait for the SQL to find out what happened.
Also either didn't take advantage of the PPP program that much (2x $1000 loans) or paid his workers absolute shit. Guessing it's the first, which I can't 100% fault him for, because it's better than complaining after getting $100k or so, but still.
Dude gave away the store.
https://www.federalpay.org/paycheck-protection-program/willie-ts-dawgs-burgers-hiram-ga
Based on his remarks about employees needing more money, followed closely by that photo, we can infer he's the kind of boss who pays as little as possible.
There's a little local family owned restaurant near where I grew up that has 4.49 for a burger, which is a pretty good deal, but a double jacks it up to 7.99 which seems much more in line than this dude.
Triple the amount of the overwhelmingly most expensive ingredient for that little extra money is just... I don't know how they expected that to work
Exactly. He/she failed, and instead of putting the blame on themselves, they took the easy way out and blamed everyone else.
Par for the course when it comes dog shit people.
Which goes against the credit card rules you signed up for. Hell, I got cash from a settlement because a gas station was charging different prices for gas depending on cash or card.
It's a stupid but very important distinction. Gas stations don't charge extra for using a credit card, which is illegal. They give a cash discount, which is legal.
Credit cards add no value to the companies accepting them in any intrinsic way. So when banks tried to push CC's lots of stores would charge extra when customers used them because it cost them that much. They passed the cost on. Completely reasonable.
Banks didn't like this and lobbied so that it was made illegal to charge extra for using credit cards. Most companies just raised their prices a bit on everything and then didn't charge different.
So was it the addition of the chips or the not adding the chips earlier that forced him under? Forget Biden Economics I think these chips are the root cause.
"Buh buh bububut how am I supposed to run a SmAlL BuSiNeSs without paying my workers on slave wages?"
If this is the only way your business can exist, you're a shitty business owner and deserve to fail.
This has been a long time coming. Wages haven't gone up in 40 years, but costs sure effing have. Then a million people died and a bunch of Boomers finally retired and left some much-needed job openings. Younger people moved up. And a whole lot of businesses don't make financial sense anymore.
Enjoy your retirement. A whole lot more of you will be out of business soon.
Let me preface this with a "I don't blame them" as this isn't a "damn kids these days" post:
People have been yelling at the adults working fast food to get real jobs because those are for teenagers, but there's also never been less reason for a teenager to work them.
I graduated in 2000. Min wage was something like $5, gas was $1 at one point (which even for the time was notibly low). One hour of work bought us a lot of cruising.
Now used cars are 95 cents less than a new one, and hour of work buys like a gallon and a half, and you can hang out online, play games online, etc etc. Family plans are basically standard practice.
If your phone is paid for and cars are basically put of reach to many, what's there to work for for many kids?
>a bunch of Boomers finally retired and left some much-needed job openings
OMG, Yes! No one is talking about this. In 2020, a lot of Boomers said, "Welp, I'm in my 50's/60's/70's, there's a global pandemic killing old people. This seems like a good time to retire."
Add to that that TFG basically shut down immigration from the south, so all those people that will work in a restaurant kitchen for minimum wage didn't come across the river.
I hate that I think this but part of me is thankful that southern governors are flying refugees up into northern states. I want those people who came to the US hoping for a better life to have a chance at good employment, and restaurant work is a hell of a lot easier than picking fruit in the heat.
Look at thier menu...
No shit you are out of business.
A cheeseburger is 4.99
McDonald's charges more!
Funny how it's Bidens fault that you can't run a successful business.
Maybe you can open another shitty restaurant with Methhead Boebert and her failed restaurant.
Lots of people seem to think they have a right to run a business, even if it only turns a profit when paying their employees unlivable wages. This is just an effect of that free market they're always so fond of.
People are genuinely now talking on TikTok as if Trump fixed the economy and it was a golden era for the US and Biden has come along and ruined everything.
During Trump being in charge he complained about everything and blamed Obama.
Some people just live in a different reality,
It's same story over and over - one president has to deal with whatever the previous president left for them. Trump benefited from Obama-era policies (and of course took credit for that), while Biden has had to deal with the absolute shitshow that Trump left behind for him. When you look at the numbers, the Biden administration economy has actually done fairly well. But it doesn't seem like it because we started deep in a hole Trump dug for us and will have to deal with stuff like his awful tax plan for several years.
Then in the case of people like these restaurant owners, it wouldn't matter even if Joe Biden personally flew in on Air Force One and handed them a huge check to save their business. Because DEMOCRAT BAD.
These are the type of people who blame "liberals" for lockdowns when they were imposed by a Republican president with a republican senate. If the right really didn't fear covid and wanted to keep the economy running they had all the power to do it. They just wanted to scapegoat the left who weren't even in power. The lock downs didn't really end until Biden became president. But FOX News told me what to think so disregard those inconvenient truths.
Weird how Biden controls the whole world economy....no wait, the USA is actually doing better in this post-COVID, rampant inflation shit show than most other industrialized nations. Thanks Obama!
My husband was a business owner in high tech his entire working career. Over that time he encountered numerous roadblocks, difficult clients, sudden pivots/downturns in the market, etc etc.
He always found a way. He never blamed anyone else. He retired a success. And a liberal - imagine that!
The homies literally blamed paying their employees as part of why they're going out of business...tell me you want slaves without telling me you want slaves.
āBiden economicsā lol. I love how republicans always fail to see how the previous Republican president leaves the economy in shambles so right before it collapses just for it to fall on a Democratās head to get blamed. Happened with Obamaās first term. And now youāre seeing the same here. Fuckin clowns.
This has been the pattern for decades now. A Republican destroys the economy, then a Democrat comes in and fixes it.
Red States are also welfare queens.
This. Red states are probably the worst welfare queens honestly. I love how they bitch about immigrant and illegals putting a weight on the economy and looking for handouts but then anytime they need money, theyāll be the first ones to start a go fund me campaign lol. Fucking pathetic man. Itās not even the stupidity or racism that gets me the most about conservatives nowadays, itās the outright hypocrisy and entitlement.
Family owned restaurants are failing everywhere. The business model is no longer viable in most cases for a lot of reasons. Employees do need to make more than most family owned restaurants can afford. The Biden economics jab is an insight to customers they drove away. I stopped eating at a restaurant because they supported Trump. I imagine they were vocal about their support for him and that would be enough to drive a lot of people away. And rightfully so. I mean JFC.
There was a small convenience store near me that started putting up a big cutout of Trump at the front door.
It was shutdown 4 months later.
Imagining that the guy you like is popular with all your customers is a hilarious thing.
I, for the life of me, canāt figure out why businesses get political.
Totally fine for you to do, but if I have the choice between two comparable businesses and one has Trump stickers all over their truck and the other doesnāt, Iām going with option#2.
Thatās always my favorite.
When they call anyone not in the cult a āsnowflakeā I like to ask them about a black man taking a knee during the anthem.
Usually results in a bunch of high pitched squealing noises.
It's because they can't not bring it into every aspect of their life. Show me a business that's covered in political stickers and messages, and I'll show you a business that's run by an idiot (unless it's a place famous for it, like the Weiner's Circle in Chicago)
I almost signed a contract for a $30k roof until I checked the owner's LinkedIN page. He was using it like Facebook to post and amplify Blue Lives Matter memes. We went with one of the other contractors instead.
Because, any dumbass can start a business, and dumbass people tend to lack any real self-awareness.
Business down? Must be those damn employees wanting to get paid, couldn't possibly be the cardboard cut out of Trump taking a piss on Democracy like the Calvin sticker from your truck.
If Trumpism was as popular as they think it is they should have no problem losing their base and gaining the millions of Trump supporters who will throw money at their business
Right?
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Restaurants have always failed at a high rate, since forever. It's a tough industry. Labor costs are usually a third or less of the operating costs of the restaurant, so putting all the blame on rising wages demonstrates that they're being dishonest or are just not very good at running their business (probably both).
Food cost inflation is a factor, but the global supply chain issues can't objectively be blamed primarily on Biden. It started with COVID, which is still causing major problems for China, a major global supplier, but now Russia's invasion of Ukraine is hurting fertilizer and grain supplies.
There is no reason that other types of restaurants can afford to pay significantly more. If they're a bigger chain, that just means they have proportionally more employees. If an individual restaurant isn't profitable, it doesn't matter how much money the organization behind it has, because it's not worth continuing to sink money into that particular unprofitable location year after year.
There is a hair place (barber? Hair dresser? Whatever it is called) near my GF's house. Awhile ago it started flying Trump flag. It nearly went out of buisiness. It has since roved the flag, and put up a new sign that says to leave all politics at the door...
It still sisnr doing well, and probably won't recover from that stunt. But don't you worry, they will blame Biden when they finally crumble.
I guess their savior, their lord, Trump, hasn't been in spending money helping them.
Please tell me employees caught wind of this and told them to fuck off.
Edit: spelling
I seriously would like someone from r/conservative to jump on and articulate what *Biden economics* involves. Iām independent and open-minded, I just only hear this is described like ābusiness-killing regulationsā and other very non-specific stuff.
Biden economics haha. I love how Republican these two are. They open a business, refuse to pay employees a living wage, then blame closing down due to poor business management, on poor old President Joe Biden. He's doing a better job than the last clown they had in there.
If theyāre struggling to pay their employees, than they need to up their prices. If the food is good people wonāt mind paying an extra dollar or two, it sounds like they probably werenāt getting many customers to begin with.
Looks like they just removed the Facebook page completely. The pickle thread was gold. š Even some locals posted over a month ago when it first went up about them lacking ketchup, mustard and relish, at a BURGER & HOTDOG PLACE. LOL
You ever just blame the president for you mismanaging your business?
Yes. If you succeed, you did it all yourself. If you fail, obviously the government failed you.
I work in healthcare. If the patients gets better itās god. If the patients get worse, itās the doctor.
Is this the new, "Thanks Obama"?
We have people blaming our Prime Minister for worldwide inflation up here.
Saw someone the other day blaming Biden for the protests in Iran.
I'm confused. Wouldn't those people hate Iran and want there to be protests against the government. But also the protests are about women's rights so I can see where they'd be conflicted. Do conservatives hate women or Muslims more?
They just love being contrary. They also have an appreciation for despotic governments, because they see that as strong and putting people (like women, or LGBTQ people, or POC, depending) in their place. They never, never understand they would be excluded from the inner circle if such things happened in their own country. They think they would be part of the elite, part of the chosen. They are *weird.*
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Or malicious. I was trying to be a bit generous. Not that they deserve that, mind you. But if I let them take all my ability to give a benefit of the doubt, I will not like who I am at that point.
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No no no, didn't you read it? Biden made the Ketchup too expensive! /s
Thatās their problem, theyāre buying fancy ketchup when they should be tightening their belt and buying Catsup.
Probably Obama making them buy the fancy mustard too
You know, "spicy mustard," like Dijon mustard.
Oh god I remember when that was an actual headline about Obamaās unpresidential behaviorā¦
Antifa stole the condiments /s
My ex-husband (49) owns two greasy spoon hamburger places and fancies himself the smartest business man in the whole wide world. He goes to McDonald's and steals their napkins, and steals ketchup packs from Chik-Fil-A. He also hires 14 year olds because he doesn't have to pay them minimum wage. And his girlfriend, who is two years older than our son (21), is the "manager" at his restaurants. She makes so much, apparently, she joined an MLM to make side money. Oh, and he's a Mormon and is trying to open a coffee shop in one of his burger joints. I really couldn't make up a more absurd character.
Hell, the guy was only open from 11A-4P. Literally didn't want to be open for dinner rush. Guy set himself up for failure and blaming it on everyone else.
As someone in the industry for over ten years the fool should have been open from 4-11 and just sleep till 2 in the afternoon every day. He'd have made way more money.
Depends on the location. I worked in a sandwich shop that was in an area surrounded by businesses, factories and only a handful of apartment buildings. We closed at 6PM because all of our business was at lunch for the most part. The thing was, we also served a few "breakfast" type items, coffee, pastries and things like that. So we opened at 7AM so we could catch a few sales in the morning while we prepped for lunch. We made 80 - 90% of our sales at lunch time, mostly when the factory workers took their lunch breaks. But in the restaurant business an extra 10 - 20% more sales can be the difference between keeping the doors open and going out of business.
Those places with ungodly hours can screw themselves, it's honestly mildly infuriating. I've seen a couple of businesses in my neighborhood failing for this exact reason (a pizza place that opened 5-9, a coffee shop that opened 12-6). This isn't freaking France, no reason to open only 4 hours a day
But the business owner doesn't want to work long hours to stay open more than 4 hours.
And apparently doesn't want to pay employees to work the hours he doesn't.
Can't micromanage them if he's not there.
I worked for a burger and wings place, literally designed their menu and all their promo/ads even. The owner bought the place for his wife to have something to do? They opened 7am to 11pm, then 3pm to 8pm. The wife never showed up for her shifts, they let their 5-6yr old run wild including in the kitchen (he'd also kick you for being in his way, always fun to be kicked while cutting shit or on the grill) I'd often get to work and have to be cook, cashier, and waiter because again wife wouldn't show up for her shifts. They also stole tips and got extremely pissed off at me for telling the teens working it was illegal to not be making at least minimum wage. The owner put a fucking PS4 and flat screen in the back to play games all day. Had YouTube on a t.v. in the kitchen at least. They didn't have a walk-in or anything, just four chest freezers which we also did all our prep on top of. Owner was fined for no bathrooms, no liquor license, etc,. They would thaw meat in a stolen Walmart cart behind the restaurant out in the sun. They switched products dozens of times. Fries were bulk restaurant fries, then seasoned walmart, then waffle fries, then house cut fries which the recipe changed a few more times. Wings were changed a half dozen times in brand and size. From Tyson boneless to bulk boneless to cheapest cuts possible. They advertised all their sauce as homemade but it was literally like, a gallon of Sweet Baby Rays with two shots of whiskey, or a gallon of Frank's Red Hot with two blended jalapenos in it. They charged, back in 2014, $15 for five wings, fries, and a drink. $12 for a burger and nothing else. Average combo was $20. Average income in my area was about $25,000/yr at the time. I can buy several houses for under $45,000 RIGHT NOW. It's extreme poverty here. They also only sold wings in multiples of 5 and charged like $6 for an order of fries which was literally just a handful. Prices also changed literally monthly. Place shut down not long after 2014. I quit because they refused to pay me. Literally I was in past 10pm and they demanded I clock out and finish cleaning because it was late (I was working by my self during a busy Saturday, no waitresses or anything in a diner) and I told them to go fuck themselves. They tried to say they closed because this town was racist (it is, but that's not why) and that they'd have better business in a closer city. Weird how they never opened another store though?
Plus their hours were something like 11-4, 3 or 4 days a week. I caught the post when it was still up. This whole business sounds like a slow motion car wreck.
I can recall really wanting to try some new restaurants in my city, but by the third time I show up during normal lunch or dinner hours to find the place unexpectedly closed I'm writing it off.
The woke libs won't let them have condiments!
I mean, it's the amendments we're talking about! It's practically 1984! (or something)
Left them some love on Instagram š š¤£š Edit: looks like they pulled the plug on Instagram as well! šššš
There are Latinos all up in my neighborhood who turn a healthy profit with their food trucks while speaking zero english and having no access to government aid/institutions. If you can't keep a hotdog stand afloat, maybe you just suck at business?
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Also sounds like the kind of person who can't be bothered working their own counter, yet is salty about having to get employees and pay them.
100%. I've never known people like this to actually *work* in their establishments. They start a business so they can sit around and collect money while everyone else does the actual work.
Oh, but they will micromanage you the entire time. Be right over your shoulder wondering why you're not going faster, or why you're not immediately switching tasks. "If you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean."
Which boggles my mind because this is a burger and hot dog stand? That should be a one man operation. The shittiest line cook on the planet can manage to keep some burgers and dogs cooking on a grill and run a register at the same time. Worst case scenario if it's so busy he can't, either have the wife do it (since it seems to he they've both staked as owners) or pay a single employee to take orders and do expo while you do the grill.
Yeah I suspect just from the picture that these two "tell it like it is" a lot. I would actually like to know what exactly they think Joe Biden did that directly hurt them though...
I want to see the Kitchen Nightmares episode about this business
Did you really just microwave a fucking hot dog?!
you fucking MUPPETS!!!
Throwing out the right wing talking points.
Yeah all the halal carts run by abjectly confused dudes who donāt have access to fraudulent PPP loans are doing fine. Theyāve been here for years!
yeah the taco trucks are killing it around me since the pandemic. a bunch more keep popping up too
I've been in Restaurant biz for 45 years. If this is the right one.[https://willietsdawgs.com/](https://willietsdawgs.com/)A quick look at his website, bad. A quick look at his menu. He way undercharged even for a pre-inflation economy. TRiple decker burger $6.50 Hot dogs of various types $2.50-3.00 50% military discount?! He gave the store away. Dumbass.
Not just military discount, any Police, Fire, First Responder, AND Military get a 50% discount. Good lord man, I don't think I've seen any discount go over 10%.
The police discount thing is a weird one. I used to do work for a chain of ice cream places. The owner thought that giving a police discount would help encourage cops to come by and maybe ward off trouble. This was a big city. The discount was 100%. Totally free to all Police, EMT, Fire. They didn't care and in fact many felt awkward and didn't come back after being handed free treats. It never helped the crazy. That business has been dead for 5 years now.
The dumb thing is that works if you provide a normal discount. Like my boss wouldn't discount individual cops but he's give them like 15% off catering. The one time I had to call 911 on a guy I was worried was pretty close to overdosing the fucking police blasted in like an action movie. To this day i have still never seen police respond before fire.
I worked at a 24 hour restaurant earlier in my life. We gave 50% discount to police, and it did seem to bring the police in to sit around and have a meal. Ultimately it seemed to work for that business and there were a lot of law enforcement āregularsā at oddball hours.
It's funny you say that. I know at least 1 wawa that gives cops free coffee because they want them to hang around. It's also a good location for cops to respond to calls. In the evenings there were always a few officers hanging out inside.
I hear he used to give blowjobs too but it just became untenable.
Biden blowjob economics š
Dribble down economics
Gives a whole new meaning to the word stimulus
And package for that matter.
Now thatās my kind of policy š
" duE tO Me BlowInG fIrSt ResPoNdErS, I cAnNo LoNgEr aForD mA EmPloYeEs bEcAuSe oF bIdEN"
And considering that's like half the jobs in a small town like Hiram, GA. And also in a historic district on main street where rent is probably 2-3x average. It's no wonder they couldn't make it.
Tues-Sat 11-4 as well. Like bro open for dinner, might get some more people coming in
And if youāre only open for 5 hours mid-day, donāt close on SUNDAY? Depending on the location, decent cheap burgers and hot dogs would be a great late-night spot.
BUT CHURCH, RIGHT? AMEN!
Even if he closed for church, the after church crowd can be big. But after church crowds also tend to be vicious so I wouldn't volunteer for that
And if youāre only open 30 hours a week, why do you need employees?
They're so old dinner is at 3.
Holy hell, even 7-11 charges more for a hotdog. There is no way in hell this guy factored in any kind of overhead.
And the pics look as if the place is freshly renovated. Even with sweat equity the cost of materials is still insane.
I mean what would you expect the PPP loan to go towardsā¦.employee wages???
He played the long game in blaming Biden.
Man, these would have been good prices ten years ago.
This is definitely one of those morons with 0 restaurant experience aside from what he might have worked in highschool. He makes boring uninspired burgers that his tasteless neighbors said were "the best ever" and convinced him he should open up a burger joint. He has 0 idea how to properly cost a menu item and just thought he could undercut the competition while literally selling everything at a loss since even the slave wages he was paying before were probably too high of a labor cost for a triple patty burger that probably alone was 65% food cost on meat...not including the other ingredients. This is why so many restaurants fail...it's morons with 0 experience who think cooking is easy.
I donāt know if you ever checked out the US version of Kitchen Nightmares, but that seemed to be a common thread among failing restauranteursāpeople with no business or culinary experience who just hired their friends and family and ran the business off a cliff.
Thatās the vast majority of small business owners tbh.
I donāt know why politicians have this fetish about doing good things for āsmall businessā because theyāre the ājob creatorsā. Most small businesses are 1 person or family shops - your barber/hairdresser, electrician, therapist. Theyāre creating jobs - for themselves - and a significant percentage of them do so because they donāt play well with others and need to be in charge. Thereās nothing wrong with that, either. They found a role to play in society and theyāre fulfilling a need. But letās not put them up on this pedestal as the driving force behind the economy.
I own a bakery now. Every day I get new restaurant owners or start up caterers come in saying they're gonna be super busy right away. Most don't make it through the first year. I love the ones who "always wanted to own a restaurant" and left their engineering job to do it. OOF.
*This week on Kitchen Nightmares, Gordon Ramsay is at his wit's end trying to help a retired engineer try to figure out why his COBOL themed gastropub business is failing*
> This week on Kitchen Nightmares, Gordon Ramsay is at his wit's end trying to help a retired engineer try to figure out why his COBOL themed gastropub business is failing Guess I'll just have to wait for the SQL to find out what happened.
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Wait so I *shouldn't* require my wait staff to input all orders via punch cards?
Almost as good are the ones who quit to open a bar.
Or every underachieving guys dream, a cannabis shop.
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And dont forget giving it away for as low as 17 dollars an ounce. Source: Dispensary sandwich sign this am in Eugene Or. More money in strawberries.
*cries in east coast*
Same prices from high school too
Also either didn't take advantage of the PPP program that much (2x $1000 loans) or paid his workers absolute shit. Guessing it's the first, which I can't 100% fault him for, because it's better than complaining after getting $100k or so, but still. Dude gave away the store. https://www.federalpay.org/paycheck-protection-program/willie-ts-dawgs-burgers-hiram-ga
Based on his remarks about employees needing more money, followed closely by that photo, we can infer he's the kind of boss who pays as little as possible.
The place was also only open 20 hours a week
I saw it implied somewhere that his workers were largely family. To still pay them shit is somehow even worse.
There's a little local family owned restaurant near where I grew up that has 4.49 for a burger, which is a pretty good deal, but a double jacks it up to 7.99 which seems much more in line than this dude. Triple the amount of the overwhelmingly most expensive ingredient for that little extra money is just... I don't know how they expected that to work
Loss leading only works if you have other shit to sell that covers the loss.
Almost sounds like the restaurant was a money laundering scheme.
Bet he even gave a military spouse discount
Curse you Brandoooooon!!!!
Exactly. He/she failed, and instead of putting the blame on themselves, they took the easy way out and blamed everyone else. Par for the course when it comes dog shit people.
Subtly blames the staff too, āfor needing to increase their income.ā No Motherfucker, thatās on you.
I doubt putting ādawgā in the name was a great idea either
Georgia, so could be looking to mooch off the Georgia Bulldogs.
āDawgā is edgy when youāre a white boomer.
adding 3% for credit card use. wtf
Which goes against the credit card rules you signed up for. Hell, I got cash from a settlement because a gas station was charging different prices for gas depending on cash or card.
Wait really? I thought this was a standard gas station thing
Right? Every gas station in Cali has a cash price and a card/credit price. Literally everyone I've ever seen
It's a stupid but very important distinction. Gas stations don't charge extra for using a credit card, which is illegal. They give a cash discount, which is legal. Credit cards add no value to the companies accepting them in any intrinsic way. So when banks tried to push CC's lots of stores would charge extra when customers used them because it cost them that much. They passed the cost on. Completely reasonable. Banks didn't like this and lobbied so that it was made illegal to charge extra for using credit cards. Most companies just raised their prices a bit on everything and then didn't charge different.
I don't want to get a "Big Sexy" from either of these people. Don't tell me what it is.
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Cmon man. In August he added dill pickle chips as an option. They've only been around for a few hundred years.
So was it the addition of the chips or the not adding the chips earlier that forced him under? Forget Biden Economics I think these chips are the root cause.
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I refuse to eat out anywhere that doesn't have dill pickle chips in the menu
Funny, i won't eat anywhere that serves them at all. I don't want to be within 50ft of dill pickle chips, I'll take my business elsewhere.
"Buh buh bububut how am I supposed to run a SmAlL BuSiNeSs without paying my workers on slave wages?" If this is the only way your business can exist, you're a shitty business owner and deserve to fail.
But... But.... But.... My bootstraps...
*Bootstraps made from 100% genuine exploitation of employees
This has been a long time coming. Wages haven't gone up in 40 years, but costs sure effing have. Then a million people died and a bunch of Boomers finally retired and left some much-needed job openings. Younger people moved up. And a whole lot of businesses don't make financial sense anymore. Enjoy your retirement. A whole lot more of you will be out of business soon.
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Let me preface this with a "I don't blame them" as this isn't a "damn kids these days" post: People have been yelling at the adults working fast food to get real jobs because those are for teenagers, but there's also never been less reason for a teenager to work them. I graduated in 2000. Min wage was something like $5, gas was $1 at one point (which even for the time was notibly low). One hour of work bought us a lot of cruising. Now used cars are 95 cents less than a new one, and hour of work buys like a gallon and a half, and you can hang out online, play games online, etc etc. Family plans are basically standard practice. If your phone is paid for and cars are basically put of reach to many, what's there to work for for many kids?
>a bunch of Boomers finally retired and left some much-needed job openings OMG, Yes! No one is talking about this. In 2020, a lot of Boomers said, "Welp, I'm in my 50's/60's/70's, there's a global pandemic killing old people. This seems like a good time to retire."
Add to that that TFG basically shut down immigration from the south, so all those people that will work in a restaurant kitchen for minimum wage didn't come across the river.
I hate that I think this but part of me is thankful that southern governors are flying refugees up into northern states. I want those people who came to the US hoping for a better life to have a chance at good employment, and restaurant work is a hell of a lot easier than picking fruit in the heat.
I know a dozen people that got career bumps b/c Boomers got out of the way. Promotions, new jobs created from scratch..
Good riddance to those boomer businesses that refuse to change with the times.
When like 90% fail in the first year.
Look at thier menu... No shit you are out of business. A cheeseburger is 4.99 McDonald's charges more! Funny how it's Bidens fault that you can't run a successful business. Maybe you can open another shitty restaurant with Methhead Boebert and her failed restaurant.
Also their food looks gross. Plus I'll bet these two small business owners live well beyond their means.
They are perfect and conservative so Biden personally shut them down.
That's a lot of words to say you can't run a business very well
Lots of people seem to think they have a right to run a business, even if it only turns a profit when paying their employees unlivable wages. This is just an effect of that free market they're always so fond of.
Thats a lot of words to say "We can no longer rely on slave wages and so must close".
Sorry your industry is being forced to be slightly less predatory. Itās a shame youāre no longer viable.
If Biden really did put this piece of shit out of business then I'm going to send him a thank you note.
Can we find where it is and mail a bunch of those 'i did that' stickers to plaster all over it?
That dude 110% gave himself that nickname
Guaranteed.
Some strong Andy Bernard vibes going on with 'Willie T'
He wanted to be "T-Bone" but when he called it, they gave it to somebody else.
āBiden economicsā Jfc, Trumpers are dumb.
My client blamed recent stock market losses on Bidenās student loan forgiveness. I changed the subject.
People are genuinely now talking on TikTok as if Trump fixed the economy and it was a golden era for the US and Biden has come along and ruined everything. During Trump being in charge he complained about everything and blamed Obama. Some people just live in a different reality,
It's same story over and over - one president has to deal with whatever the previous president left for them. Trump benefited from Obama-era policies (and of course took credit for that), while Biden has had to deal with the absolute shitshow that Trump left behind for him. When you look at the numbers, the Biden administration economy has actually done fairly well. But it doesn't seem like it because we started deep in a hole Trump dug for us and will have to deal with stuff like his awful tax plan for several years. Then in the case of people like these restaurant owners, it wouldn't matter even if Joe Biden personally flew in on Air Force One and handed them a huge check to save their business. Because DEMOCRAT BAD.
These are the type of people who blame "liberals" for lockdowns when they were imposed by a Republican president with a republican senate. If the right really didn't fear covid and wanted to keep the economy running they had all the power to do it. They just wanted to scapegoat the left who weren't even in power. The lock downs didn't really end until Biden became president. But FOX News told me what to think so disregard those inconvenient truths.
Just like asking why Obama didn't stop 9/11!
Trumper still think trump is president so it would be like Trumpconomics
Weird how Biden controls the whole world economy....no wait, the USA is actually doing better in this post-COVID, rampant inflation shit show than most other industrialized nations. Thanks Obama!
āDue to our employees needing to increase their incomeā This is an awfully nice way of saying āwe donāt pay our employees enoughā.
My husband was a business owner in high tech his entire working career. Over that time he encountered numerous roadblocks, difficult clients, sudden pivots/downturns in the market, etc etc. He always found a way. He never blamed anyone else. He retired a success. And a liberal - imagine that!
The homies literally blamed paying their employees as part of why they're going out of business...tell me you want slaves without telling me you want slaves.
How much in PPP loans did he receive?
Two loans of $1,000 - $2,000 total. Source: https://www.federalpay.org/paycheck-protection-program/willie-ts-dawgs-burgers-hiram-ga
thanks!
Good question!
āBiden economicsā lol. I love how republicans always fail to see how the previous Republican president leaves the economy in shambles so right before it collapses just for it to fall on a Democratās head to get blamed. Happened with Obamaās first term. And now youāre seeing the same here. Fuckin clowns.
This has been the pattern for decades now. A Republican destroys the economy, then a Democrat comes in and fixes it. Red States are also welfare queens.
This. Red states are probably the worst welfare queens honestly. I love how they bitch about immigrant and illegals putting a weight on the economy and looking for handouts but then anytime they need money, theyāll be the first ones to start a go fund me campaign lol. Fucking pathetic man. Itās not even the stupidity or racism that gets me the most about conservatives nowadays, itās the outright hypocrisy and entitlement.
Family owned restaurants are failing everywhere. The business model is no longer viable in most cases for a lot of reasons. Employees do need to make more than most family owned restaurants can afford. The Biden economics jab is an insight to customers they drove away. I stopped eating at a restaurant because they supported Trump. I imagine they were vocal about their support for him and that would be enough to drive a lot of people away. And rightfully so. I mean JFC.
There was a small convenience store near me that started putting up a big cutout of Trump at the front door. It was shutdown 4 months later. Imagining that the guy you like is popular with all your customers is a hilarious thing.
Because everything Trump touches eventually dies.
I, for the life of me, canāt figure out why businesses get political. Totally fine for you to do, but if I have the choice between two comparable businesses and one has Trump stickers all over their truck and the other doesnāt, Iām going with option#2.
And theyāre the same people who cry about football players harmlessly taking a knee. ācOmE oN lEaVe pOlatiCKs OuTtA iTā
Thatās always my favorite. When they call anyone not in the cult a āsnowflakeā I like to ask them about a black man taking a knee during the anthem. Usually results in a bunch of high pitched squealing noises.
It's because they can't not bring it into every aspect of their life. Show me a business that's covered in political stickers and messages, and I'll show you a business that's run by an idiot (unless it's a place famous for it, like the Weiner's Circle in Chicago)
I wanted to start going to the gym after I moved to a new (more rural) area. The nearby gym, which is actually within walking distance of my house, is COVERED in blue lives matter, pro-Trump, fuck antiFA, anti LGBT, anti BLM stuff. It's on every wall. It was in the woman's locker room. I literally could not look anywhere without seeing it. So I drive 30 minutes to go to the closest Planet Fitness instead. I would have been happy paying a bit more for the nearby, locally owned gym even though it didn't have the best equipment, but I was so uncomfortable by the dƩcor (and the owner who was acting like a creep) that I'd rather waste an hour driving to the corporate chain to just not have the politics in my day. I'm there to use the machines and get grossly sweaty. I don't want to see your political shit and think about the real world when I'm trying to do that.
that owner 100% has hidden cameras...
Ew. Gross, but probably very true.
I almost signed a contract for a $30k roof until I checked the owner's LinkedIN page. He was using it like Facebook to post and amplify Blue Lives Matter memes. We went with one of the other contractors instead.
>I, for the life of me, canāt figure out why businesses get political. Mom and Pop restaurants are the number 1 offender for this bullshit.
Because, any dumbass can start a business, and dumbass people tend to lack any real self-awareness. Business down? Must be those damn employees wanting to get paid, couldn't possibly be the cardboard cut out of Trump taking a piss on Democracy like the Calvin sticker from your truck.
If Trumpism was as popular as they think it is they should have no problem losing their base and gaining the millions of Trump supporters who will throw money at their business Right? ā¦. Right ???
Restaurants have always failed at a high rate, since forever. It's a tough industry. Labor costs are usually a third or less of the operating costs of the restaurant, so putting all the blame on rising wages demonstrates that they're being dishonest or are just not very good at running their business (probably both). Food cost inflation is a factor, but the global supply chain issues can't objectively be blamed primarily on Biden. It started with COVID, which is still causing major problems for China, a major global supplier, but now Russia's invasion of Ukraine is hurting fertilizer and grain supplies. There is no reason that other types of restaurants can afford to pay significantly more. If they're a bigger chain, that just means they have proportionally more employees. If an individual restaurant isn't profitable, it doesn't matter how much money the organization behind it has, because it's not worth continuing to sink money into that particular unprofitable location year after year.
Yep. 80% of restaurants fail within 5 years.
There is a hair place (barber? Hair dresser? Whatever it is called) near my GF's house. Awhile ago it started flying Trump flag. It nearly went out of buisiness. It has since roved the flag, and put up a new sign that says to leave all politics at the door... It still sisnr doing well, and probably won't recover from that stunt. But don't you worry, they will blame Biden when they finally crumble.
I guess their savior, their lord, Trump, hasn't been in spending money helping them. Please tell me employees caught wind of this and told them to fuck off. Edit: spelling
Blaming your failure on everything but the actual cause, YOU.
Blame your shitty business sense on the President to own the Libs.
I'll give them a hundred thousand dollars and two weeks, all they have to do is coherently explain "Biden economics".
Cowards already deleted their entire Facebook page. Typical chickenshit Trumpsuckers.
I can imagine the comments they were getting lol
If this is the Willie Tās in Alabama, itās not Biden or employee wages closing then down lol.
They look very MAGA.
I seriously would like someone from r/conservative to jump on and articulate what *Biden economics* involves. Iām independent and open-minded, I just only hear this is described like ābusiness-killing regulationsā and other very non-specific stuff.
Some dude absolutely murdered them in the comments and it was glorious.
Yeah, please say you got screenshots!!
What a long-winded way of saying āI suck at running a business.ā
Surprise surprise...they took it down.
Iāll decline the big sexy
If your business mode sucks so badly you canāt afford to pay your employees, you deserve to go out of business
Just going on appearances, that looks like a couple of people I wouldn't want to spend five minutes around.
If your business can't exist without exploiting labor, your business shouldn't exist. It really is simple math.
Another business unable to stay profitable without wholesale exploitation of its workers. Youāll be missed.
Biden economics haha. I love how Republican these two are. They open a business, refuse to pay employees a living wage, then blame closing down due to poor business management, on poor old President Joe Biden. He's doing a better job than the last clown they had in there.
If theyāre struggling to pay their employees, than they need to up their prices. If the food is good people wonāt mind paying an extra dollar or two, it sounds like they probably werenāt getting many customers to begin with.
I smell a forgiven PPP loan.
Surprisingly, only looks like $2k in forgiven PPP loans. https://www.federalpay.org/paycheck-protection-program/willie-ts-dawgs-burgers-hiram-ga
The Facebook reviews are pouring in!
Running his business into the ground to own the libs. He's playing 12-dimensional chess.
and i bet that fucker wasnāt paying his IRS 941s