Carey Hynes

guy who somehow ended up in restaurants

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@shaneparrish I wonder if this is still the case. FLSA prohibits “shift pay”. With few exceptions, any non-managerial work that involves manual labor has to be paid hourly.

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@aaronk7

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@nickkokonas I don’t love it as a guest, and it’s particularly absurd in SF where you can see 10% surcharges. But I don’t think, under a lot of circumstances, that it’s irrational.

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@nickkokonas Again, I don’t disagree with anything you’re saying. But there’s a reason Ticketmaster (or Airbnb) tack on the fees, and they’ve certainly run the A/B testing. And as for the legality, you’re right it’s dubious, but it’s not being enforced in any way…

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@nickkokonas Without necessarily disagreeing, the prevalence of surcharges (vs service included or higher prices) might indicate that they’re somehow more tolerable to most consumers than a service charge or a higher price. Potentially the least bad option for some restaurants.

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@stevesi Or you can be a line cook at my restaurant and make $70k with benefits. Don’t even need to have graduated high school.

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@hels It’s out of stock until January. I’m heartbroken.

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@pete_wells @ferpointe In general, I have found food media to be very credulous, relative to, say, good financial or political journalists who develop sources and verify and often have backgrounds that enable them to see through bullshit.

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@pete_wells @ferpointe There are passages from “Heat”, which I think you’ve mentioned in the past, where Batali’s behavior is problematic. In the case of MCF, while I don’t think it was “out in the open”, the media did regurgitate the narrative that MCF had a progressive work culture without verifying.

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@dandrezner It seems like @Bob4Florida is trying to give some empirical foundation and you’re kinda being haughty without empirically trying to refute his main point? And expending zero mental effort in trying to examine how his record as SOS might align with his support of Trump?

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@fstuart2 @OrinKerr This doesn’t change anything in his supporters’ eyes, and they kinda have a point. He’s been living with a view of Central Park, shitting in a solid gold toilet, and fucking pornstars and models from Eastern Europe for decades...does it matter if he’s a terrible businessman?

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@bgurley @mhelft @ricardo_hausman Are you seriously equating AB5 and PAGA with what has happened in Venezuela?

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@pete_wells Agreed. But the pandemic had nothing to do with this closure. TKRG is as well-positioned as anyone in the world to make a deal with the landlord and weather the pandemic storm. The reality is it’s too big and was never profitable. The pandemic is just good cover to cut the cord

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@scott_lew_is @ViktorBunin @bneiluj @Austen Or, more to the point, what % of jobs that will be available in 2020-2040 in the US do you think necessitate the level of education/intelligence required to answer this question?

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@scott_lew_is @ViktorBunin @bneiluj @Austen What is the point you are trying to make with this question?

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@ONAN_OUS Uh, was anyone in those screenshots fired? Seems like they all quit very voluntarily and mostly still have some affinity for the firm...

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@nycsouthpaw Also, unemployment insurance expired last week...

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@arockjonestown I’m laser-focused in my business. I would like a real, enforced nationwide shutdown, because that’s the shortest path to my restaurant safely going back to normal business levels. The whole “let’s open now” mindset isn’t capitalist or ambitious or focused. It’s just dumb.

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@hels I myself am a greedy capitalist restaurant owner. I would like to see an enforced, effective full shut down so I can maybe go back to full indoor capacity (like Germany or Denmark) sometime this calendar year.

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@hels Also illuminating that they seem to think the only issue is the government-mandated closures, like their business would be totally fine if it were just allowed to open.