Has He Tried Matching Their Figure?

 April 10, 2021

 

Times are getting tough for fast-food restaurants, post-pandemic, in terms of staffing.

In order to woo staff to its restaurants, Taco Bell has added four weeks of annual vacation, eight weeks of paid maternity leave, and four weeks of “baby bonding” time for general managers at company-owned locations.

What the hell were they getting before?

The CEO of FAT Brands, Inc. says that staffing restaurants that are re-opening after the pandemic is a “total nightmare.” He says that unemployment and stimulus checks have been a catalyst for people to stay at home rather than look for work. I assume he’s including the extra $300 per week that the federal government is adding to the checks.

Mr. Wiederhorn, I am here to tell you that nobody ever got rich living off unemployment, even with the additional money. If your restaurants can’t match that figure, you deserve all the heartache you get.