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Bennigan s Bankruptcy

51 by Major_Archive
Mandroid2.0 wrote:How is that possible? The non-store made, frozen cheesecakes at Sam's Club cost about $12-15/cake and taste exactly the same as most cheesecake I've ever had at a chain restaurant. You'd think a chain restaurant could work out a better deal with the manufacturers than what some dude off the street pays at Sam's Club. Or, just buy the cakes from Sam's club.


GODDAMMIT WHERE WERE YOU A FEW MONTHS AGO YOU COULD HAVE PREVENTED ALL OF THIS

I WANT A MONTE CRISTO
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Bennigan s Bankruptcy

54 by jurgis rudkus_Archive
ERawk wrote:
jurgis rudkus wrote:
nick92675 wrote:
jurgis rudkus wrote:Bennigan's and their ilk are the fucking major labels of the food service industry. Shit ingredients, shit jobs, hypercompetitive fuckery squashing mom 'n' pops, etc.

Make your own french dip or whatever, or [*gasp*] patronize a genuinely local eatery and help your community thrive.


oh shit - really? man, i never thought of it that way.


Smart ass, eh? I've a cock for you to suck.


Well, you are kind of preaching to the converted

I hardly ever see anyone suggest anything other than non-chain restaurants in other threads about eating in other cities.


Alright, alright, you bastards. It is possible that I may have overreacted to nick, and that I may have missed the subtle language and humor of the sandwich-praisers out there.

I was also skimming the Trans Am Hummer thread at around the same time (all the while pretending to work, of course), and all of the excuses being made for why someone might 'need' to sell their songs had my ire up a bit.

My apology to nick, & cock-suck mandate (man date?) withdrawn.
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Bennigan s Bankruptcy

55 by mrarrison_Archive
You know, it is possible for a restaurant chain to just go out of business because the food is awful, the place doesn't feel fresh and the people that work there feel no pride in what the company does, are bored to tears with the mundane act of popping frozen chicken patties in a fryer and squeezing pasta sauce out of vacuum sealed bags heated in giant microwaves, while managers sexually harass the revolving door of young female college students attempting waitressing for the first time.

Bennigans was a failure.

I worked at a Bennigans the mid-90's. I was a waiter. It was a godawful job. Everyone that worked there on the floor was a high school or college student. We were managed by uneducated fucktards that did not understand why "sexual harassment" was wrong or what "OSHA" meant. It was basically a bad Shoney's with license plates, baseball memorabilia and irish trinkets nailed on every single wall. (Actually, I worked at a Shoney's for several years in high school and college, and Shoney's was the Taj Mahal in comparison to how it treated its staff. And the Salad bar was better too.)

Bennigans was the WORST place I have ever worked as a waiter. Clientele didn't tip for shit. Managers were abusive fuckwads lacking common sense. When it snowed 2 feet, they made all the waiters come in and roll silverware for 8 hours while no customers passed through the door, refusing to let anyone go home (note: we were paid $1.85 per hour as tips were supposed to make up the rest).

Busboys bussed tables with the same trays used to fill up ice in drink machines, polluting drink machine ice with bits of used meat, cole slaw and cigarette ash.

Bennigan's was a place that served a limp meat pile sandwich that was dunked in batter and flour, deep fried, dashed with powdered sugar, with a side of raspberry jelly and a pile of twice fried shoestring potatoes thrown on the side. GROSS.

This restaurant deserved to go out of business. It was awful, worse than even TGIF caliber food.

It's sad when people lose jobs, but I can think of TEN BETTER CHAINS that have opened since then. Really.

This is just shit leaving the ass. Good riddance.

Bennigan s Bankruptcy

58 by mrarrison_Archive
drew patrick wrote:
mr.arrison wrote:We were managed by uneducated fucktards that did not understand why "sexual harassment" was wrong or what "OSHA" meant.


Please advise. Does not compute.


teh interwebs wrote:
Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination that violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitutes sexual harassment when submission to or rejection of this conduct explicitly or implicitly affects an individual's employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual's work performance or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive work environment.

Sexual harassment can occur in a variety of circumstances, including but not limited to the following:

The victim as well as the harasser may be a woman or a man. The victim does not have to be of the opposite sex.
The harasser can be the victim's supervisor, an agent of the employer, a supervisor in another area, a co-worker, or a non-employee.
The harasser's conduct must be unwelcome.
It is helpful for the victim to directly inform the harasser that the conduct is unwelcome and must stop. The victim should use any employer complaint mechanism or grievance system available.

Here are some of the changes in industrial safety regulation brought about by OSHA:
Guards on all moving parts - By 1970, there were guards to prevent inadvertent contact with most moving parts that were accessible in the normal course of operation. With OSHA, use of guards was expanded to cover essentially all parts where contact is possible.
Permissible exposure limits (PEL) - Maximum concentrations of chemicals stipulated by law for chemicals and dusts. They cover only around 600 chemicals and most are based on standards issued by other organizations in 1968 or before.
Personal protective equipment (PPE) - broader use of respirators, gloves, coveralls, and other protective equipment when handling hazardous chemicals; goggles, face shields, ear protection in typical industrial environments
Lockout/tagout - In the 1980s, requirements for locking out energy sources (securing them in an "off" condition) when performing repairs or maintenance
Confined space - In the 1990s, specific requirements for air sampling and use of a "buddy system" when working inside tanks, manholes, pits, bins, and similar enclosed areas
Hazard Communication (HazCom [3]) - Also known as the "Right to Know" standard, was issued as 29CFR1910.1200 on November 25, 1983 (48 FR 53280), requires developing and communicating information on the hazards of chemical products used in the workplace.
Process Safety Management (PSM [4]) - Issued in 1992 as 29CFR1910.119 in an attempt to reduce large scale industrial accidents. Although enforcement of the standard has been spotty, its principles have long been widely accepted by the petrochemical industry.
Bloodborne Pathogens (BBP [5])- In 1990, OSHA issued a standard designed to prevent health care (and other) workers from being exposed to bloodborne pathogens such as hepatitis B and HIV.
Excavations and Trenches - OSHA regulations[6] specify that trenches and excavations wherein workers are working 5 feet or more down must be provided with safeguards in addition to proper sloping and storage of excavated material in order to prevent collapses/cave-ins.[7]
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In other words, the management sexually harassed some of the people that worked in the restaurant. They also weren't clear that there are regulations involving making people work in unsafe conditions, like standing on greasy, slippery milk crates to replace light bulbs, or jury rigging exposed wires coming out of dishwashers with duct tape, you know, shit that could hurt/kill a person.
Last edited by mrarrison_Archive on Wed Jul 30, 2008 4:33 am, edited 1 time in total.

Bennigan s Bankruptcy

60 by nick92675_Archive
jurgis rudkus wrote:
ERawk wrote:
jurgis rudkus wrote:
nick92675 wrote:
jurgis rudkus wrote:Bennigan's and their ilk are the fucking major labels of the food service industry. Shit ingredients, shit jobs, hypercompetitive fuckery squashing mom 'n' pops, etc.

Make your own french dip or whatever, or [*gasp*] patronize a genuinely local eatery and help your community thrive.


oh shit - really? man, i never thought of it that way.


Smart ass, eh? I've a cock for you to suck.


Well, you are kind of preaching to the converted

I hardly ever see anyone suggest anything other than non-chain restaurants in other threads about eating in other cities.


Alright, alright, you bastards. It is possible that I may have overreacted to nick, and that I may have missed the subtle language and humor of the sandwich-praisers out there.

I was also skimming the Trans Am Hummer thread at around the same time (all the while pretending to work, of course), and all of the excuses being made for why someone might 'need' to sell their songs had my ire up a bit.

My apology to nick, & cock-suck mandate (man date?) withdrawn.


it's all gravy man - hopefully of the mass produced kind. :)
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