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In reply to the discussion: A Chick-fil-A owner shocked his employees in the best way after shutting down for renovations [View all]christx30
(6,241 posts)2. It's not the cost of doing business.
They are using the profits to do more than they have to do. He could have laid those people off, but he kept paying them.
McDonalds would have fired everyone for the duration of the renovations and hired new people.
This guy kept paying his people, and brought them back in. These people are going to be happy about going to work, and do everything they can to take care of their customers.
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A Chick-fil-A owner shocked his employees in the best way after shutting down for renovations [View all]
ButterflyBlood
Aug 2015
OP
It may not be illegal, but it certainly is a steaming pile of bovine fecal matter! n.t.
RoccoR5955
Aug 2015
#76
"Of course if you had something with a huge face of Satan on it that might go differently!"
SusanCalvin
Aug 2015
#84
That was my problem with them--I avoided them for the anti-gay legislative support.
MADem
Aug 2015
#28
I'll be frank--there's only one, I think, in my entire state, and it's in some mall I never have
MADem
Aug 2015
#32
So he pays his full timers 23 bucks an hour? Wonder how many of the employees are full time then.
cstanleytech
Aug 2015
#10
Great, but shouldn't take that long to renovate and there is a cost with hiring and training all new
Dustlawyer
Aug 2015
#13
He sounds like a stand-up guy, yet he is being damned with faint praise in this thread
Hekate
Aug 2015
#16
That's a great franchise owner. pays Higher then state minimum wage & pays to retain good employees
Sunlei
Aug 2015
#50
The politics of the parent company aside, Cick-fi-A employees get treated fairly well
liberal N proud
Aug 2015
#51
Most of the Chick-fil-A frachisees are pretty decentpeople - once you get past some of their.....
marble falls
Aug 2015
#52