How do terrible owners keep their stores open?
I just left, but these owners I’ve had are absolute trash. They don’t pay enough, the one person that they had to basically run the store, they deceived with “hourly exempt” so he gets only regular pay, no time and a half. He’s supposed to get “weekly bonuses” but since the “numbers aren’t right” he gets none. Then the owners keep all the credit card tips for the whole month to disperse them “according to the hours worked” so they can keep half of the tips themselves. And if we mess up, the tips get held over our heads.
“Don’t be surprised when you don’t get your bonuses this month”
I just walked out, and I’m pretty sure I will not be getting any tips with my last check because they’re greedy little snakes and want the money for themselves.
All this while the owner drives a Porsche everyday and when he’s actually in the store, he’s leaving the only person there on the board by themselves for a lunch rush because he’s on the phone or doing paperwork, NONE of which is CMX, since night shift would always have to do morning CMX. The other owner(his wife) drives all day. And yes, even when there’s another delivery driver, she will still take the catering order with the $200 tip and keep it for herself.
They also love to have their kids in there, which wouldn’t be problematic if those kids weren’t jumping on tables, knocking drinks over and leaving huge messes that night shift gets to come and clean up. Spilled fruit punch all over the table, left it for night to come and clean and mop up. These kids also run to the back of the store and back to the lobby, play with the stores’ equipment.. which I guess they’re the owners but the mess those kids make and then the parents who own the place will just leave it for their employees to deal with. Oh and last week, an employee had to tell the owner that his children were throwing bricks at the store next door(another restaurant). Yes, throwing bricks.
Instead of paying the employees that they’re running out the door, they would rather pay Review MD to fix their reviews($220/month, btw), and then implement a system where if the employees don’t get reviews, they get written up/fired. And they wonder why corporate is up their asses tryna fix their stores.
I can’t wait til karma balances itself out with these people.
Seriously, how do they keep stores running??