There aren't many mature stores left. They cannot pay adults competitive wages and the college benefit doesn't help. I just talked to the manager at my local Wendy's. 14.50 an hour to start. Baristas at my store make 9.51. Wtf? Waffle House pays their cooks $15 an hour, plus bonuses and stock options. Both places have full health benefits and hire full time employees. I'm just saying I can go somewhere tomorrow and make more.

This 259 is 100% with you on this. I started $BUX after one major natural disaster hit the area; been thru 2 more since. Of the 6+ non-management partners born before 1990 who work in this area, its only the medical benefits that keep us here. Our DM changes every 9 months, and the SM are obsessed with getting DT times to 30 seconds. Only 1 person to my knowledge has ever been reprimanded and that was a theft that ended with termination.

HERE, ≈95% of the baristas are in the 17-24 year old range. Not a one knows what a work ethic is and no one takes responsibility for anything. Unless one of us “old people” get disgusted with the state of something, it doesn’t get fixed/cleaned. More than 3 out of 4 customers are Tourist Karen’s so even if the stores were running perfect we’d still get low customer satisfaction scores.

But the only jobs that are hiring are Retail, Fast food, and Hospitality. All pay minimum wage +10%. No one but us pays any benefits until you are there for a full year. Since most of these kids bail out before then I doubt it will ever change.

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