The way that man talked about his wife made me want to throw up. If I had to hear about his sex life or his wife’s grooming habits one more time I would 🤮🤮 like grow up.

I felt the same way the first time I heard about Winchester Thurston, the private school. It's the snootiest sounding name, like it could be the school the evil rich kids go to in an 80's high school comedy.

Flour

Quick to blame anyone but themselves. They could make an effort to change things and make the workplace better for so they can keep employees but they’re so stuck in their ways and either lack the self awareness or simply don’t have the capacity to care.

Fun fact: Big Burrito got a $10M PPP loan under one of their DBA names, specifically "Whole Enchilda."

They also fired their full staff at all of their specialty restaurants in July of 2000 for wanting safe working conditions in the height of COVID via an 11:30 PM email (meaning after closing that night).

Fuck 'em.

Stereotypical?

It's bland anglicized Mexican.

How was it clear? Restaurant groups never share this info with the workers. How did you get that impression?

Right on the money.

Every restaurant in Pittsburgh needs a union.

She makes clothing but Tom walks around the restaurants and touches things and makes the decisions. Lol

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She really was. She had some incredible stories and she was so loyal to them. Just goes to show you…..

Sorry, I may have misunderstood. I thought you were working at Mex when it closed. I was curious as to what happened to one of their long standing employees, a dishwasher. But I also agree with you about these restaurants

That's terrible. She was beloved.

They pushed her to retire. She wanted to stay on as a hostess and they wouldn’t let her. She left in tears. It was so sad.

Oh, I agree 1000%. Expanding a business is no crime but to let employees go with no notice to do so is just crap. But it was Bill Fuller doing the interview and he isn’t exactly known for not talking out his ass.

At BB: I had a guy as a host who was pretty great at juggling tables and handling reservations.

Tom/Juno had a meeting with me one day about him. "We don't like how that guy looks on the door. Fire that guy and get a really hot chick!"

I didn't fire him, I sold him on another job.

I hired a woman who was super hot, who also had a part time job as a stripper. I'm not shaming her for stripping, that was just another job she had. She thought I didn't know she also stripped. I knew. She made one part of my job much easier because she was hot.

I expect the bashing but we ate at that MadMex once when we lived in Oakland. Besides the service and drinx, never saw a reason to return, just boring stereotypical Mexican fare. I feel for the staff but that "restaurant group of burros" can collectively go fuck themselves.

Look I don’t know what the case is with madmex but I do know there’s in issue with getting people who want to work and stay at food service industry in Pittsburgh.

Most food service jobs want part time for $10 an hour and that doesn’t really cut it anymore with the way inflation is. Not sure what their starting rate is here but livable wages are a good start to keep employees which in the restaurant industry seems to be an issue. If you’re going to pay a measly $10 an hour hire high schoolers not adults who have bills to pay… and then they get mad you’re not smiling enough at the customers who come in… or the manager will treat you like shit and yell at you while on their power trip and then have the nerve to complain about not having enough staff. Either that or you’re doing tasks outside your job description that you could get paid more for had you worked anywhere else. Lot of favoritism and drama for no good reason.

I can name two places that I worked at where the pay was low but everything else was fine in the food service industry. Those places kept their employees longer than places who treated them like trash. At least if you pay low wages be nice to your employees. But no they hire to fire at most places.

You just need to work as fast as possible so you get them more sales and not care about the quality of the customers orders as much (it’s taken into account just not as much as working fast is).

TLDR; nobody wants to work food service too much drama for not enough pay. Some managers are on a power trip. Everyone is miserable at most places.

Also in the US you can be fired without notice unfortunately. Sometimes you get fired so someone else can take your place for a lower starting wage and less hours. Better to have another side job to be on the safer side if you can (that would be unlikely or very difficult in college though as students need the time to focus on their studies). It’s a shame employers like to shift blame on anyone but themselves

You meant the busted piece of equipment or a person?

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Seems to be a common theme in Pittsburgh. Employers turning people down because they don’t own a car… but what they fail to understand is some people who take the bus show up early and are less likely to get stuck in traffic because they would rather be early than late.

What did they do to Monika? I loved that woman.

I liked her as a person and a co-worker. However her spoken values and taste in men did not match. I knew them both before they were married.

I was the second GM of Casbah after BB. That should narrow it down