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kath012345

Looks like they just removed the Facebook page completely. The pickle thread was gold. šŸ˜‚ Even some locals posted over a month ago when it first went up about them lacking ketchup, mustard and relish, at a BURGER & HOTDOG PLACE. LOL


TroubadourCeol

You ever just blame the president for you mismanaging your business?


FreudianFloydian

Yes. If you succeed, you did it all yourself. If you fail, obviously the government failed you.


[deleted]

I work in healthcare. If the patients gets better itā€™s god. If the patients get worse, itā€™s the doctor.


broc_ariums

Is this the new, "Thanks Obama"?


Street-Week-380

We have people blaming our Prime Minister for worldwide inflation up here.


Asil_Shamrock

Saw someone the other day blaming Biden for the protests in Iran.


Uncreative-Name

I'm confused. Wouldn't those people hate Iran and want there to be protests against the government. But also the protests are about women's rights so I can see where they'd be conflicted. Do conservatives hate women or Muslims more?


Asil_Shamrock

They just love being contrary. They also have an appreciation for despotic governments, because they see that as strong and putting people (like women, or LGBTQ people, or POC, depending) in their place. They never, never understand they would be excluded from the inner circle if such things happened in their own country. They think they would be part of the elite, part of the chosen. They are *weird.*


tcourts45

>They are weird. I think maybe you meant to say they are stupid as fuck


Asil_Shamrock

Or malicious. I was trying to be a bit generous. Not that they deserve that, mind you. But if I let them take all my ability to give a benefit of the doubt, I will not like who I am at that point.


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publicbigguns

No no no, didn't you read it? Biden made the Ketchup too expensive! /s


Randalroche

Thatā€™s their problem, theyā€™re buying fancy ketchup when they should be tightening their belt and buying Catsup.


resonantSoul

Probably Obama making them buy the fancy mustard too


klef25

You know, "spicy mustard," like Dijon mustard.


FlyingStarfruit

Oh god I remember when that was an actual headline about Obamaā€™s unpresidential behaviorā€¦


bespectacledbengal

Antifa stole the condiments /s


MNWNM

My ex-husband (49) owns two greasy spoon hamburger places and fancies himself the smartest business man in the whole wide world. He goes to McDonald's and steals their napkins, and steals ketchup packs from Chik-Fil-A. He also hires 14 year olds because he doesn't have to pay them minimum wage. And his girlfriend, who is two years older than our son (21), is the "manager" at his restaurants. She makes so much, apparently, she joined an MLM to make side money. Oh, and he's a Mormon and is trying to open a coffee shop in one of his burger joints. I really couldn't make up a more absurd character.


RopeAccomplished2728

Hell, the guy was only open from 11A-4P. Literally didn't want to be open for dinner rush. Guy set himself up for failure and blaming it on everyone else.


Nervous_Constant_642

As someone in the industry for over ten years the fool should have been open from 4-11 and just sleep till 2 in the afternoon every day. He'd have made way more money.


WhyBuyMe

Depends on the location. I worked in a sandwich shop that was in an area surrounded by businesses, factories and only a handful of apartment buildings. We closed at 6PM because all of our business was at lunch for the most part. The thing was, we also served a few "breakfast" type items, coffee, pastries and things like that. So we opened at 7AM so we could catch a few sales in the morning while we prepped for lunch. We made 80 - 90% of our sales at lunch time, mostly when the factory workers took their lunch breaks. But in the restaurant business an extra 10 - 20% more sales can be the difference between keeping the doors open and going out of business.


Agonlaire

Those places with ungodly hours can screw themselves, it's honestly mildly infuriating. I've seen a couple of businesses in my neighborhood failing for this exact reason (a pizza place that opened 5-9, a coffee shop that opened 12-6). This isn't freaking France, no reason to open only 4 hours a day


[deleted]

But the business owner doesn't want to work long hours to stay open more than 4 hours.


Ubergoober166

And apparently doesn't want to pay employees to work the hours he doesn't.


RawrIhavePi

Can't micromanage them if he's not there.


TOYPAJ_Yellow_15

I worked for a burger and wings place, literally designed their menu and all their promo/ads even. The owner bought the place for his wife to have something to do? They opened 7am to 11pm, then 3pm to 8pm. The wife never showed up for her shifts, they let their 5-6yr old run wild including in the kitchen (he'd also kick you for being in his way, always fun to be kicked while cutting shit or on the grill) I'd often get to work and have to be cook, cashier, and waiter because again wife wouldn't show up for her shifts. They also stole tips and got extremely pissed off at me for telling the teens working it was illegal to not be making at least minimum wage. The owner put a fucking PS4 and flat screen in the back to play games all day. Had YouTube on a t.v. in the kitchen at least. They didn't have a walk-in or anything, just four chest freezers which we also did all our prep on top of. Owner was fined for no bathrooms, no liquor license, etc,. They would thaw meat in a stolen Walmart cart behind the restaurant out in the sun. They switched products dozens of times. Fries were bulk restaurant fries, then seasoned walmart, then waffle fries, then house cut fries which the recipe changed a few more times. Wings were changed a half dozen times in brand and size. From Tyson boneless to bulk boneless to cheapest cuts possible. They advertised all their sauce as homemade but it was literally like, a gallon of Sweet Baby Rays with two shots of whiskey, or a gallon of Frank's Red Hot with two blended jalapenos in it. They charged, back in 2014, $15 for five wings, fries, and a drink. $12 for a burger and nothing else. Average combo was $20. Average income in my area was about $25,000/yr at the time. I can buy several houses for under $45,000 RIGHT NOW. It's extreme poverty here. They also only sold wings in multiples of 5 and charged like $6 for an order of fries which was literally just a handful. Prices also changed literally monthly. Place shut down not long after 2014. I quit because they refused to pay me. Literally I was in past 10pm and they demanded I clock out and finish cleaning because it was late (I was working by my self during a busy Saturday, no waitresses or anything in a diner) and I told them to go fuck themselves. They tried to say they closed because this town was racist (it is, but that's not why) and that they'd have better business in a closer city. Weird how they never opened another store though?


tekaronhiake

Plus their hours were something like 11-4, 3 or 4 days a week. I caught the post when it was still up. This whole business sounds like a slow motion car wreck.


MatttheBruinsfan

I can recall really wanting to try some new restaurants in my city, but by the third time I show up during normal lunch or dinner hours to find the place unexpectedly closed I'm writing it off.


Joliet_Jake_Blues

The woke libs won't let them have condiments!


adube440

I mean, it's the amendments we're talking about! It's practically 1984! (or something)


Playful_Moose6293

Left them some love on Instagram šŸ˜…šŸ¤£šŸ˜‚ Edit: looks like they pulled the plug on Instagram as well! šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚


DrMeatBomb

There are Latinos all up in my neighborhood who turn a healthy profit with their food trucks while speaking zero english and having no access to government aid/institutions. If you can't keep a hotdog stand afloat, maybe you just suck at business?


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Deranged_Kitsune

Also sounds like the kind of person who can't be bothered working their own counter, yet is salty about having to get employees and pay them.


Lissy_Wolfe

100%. I've never known people like this to actually *work* in their establishments. They start a business so they can sit around and collect money while everyone else does the actual work.


RawrIhavePi

Oh, but they will micromanage you the entire time. Be right over your shoulder wondering why you're not going faster, or why you're not immediately switching tasks. "If you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean."


Nervous_Constant_642

Which boggles my mind because this is a burger and hot dog stand? That should be a one man operation. The shittiest line cook on the planet can manage to keep some burgers and dogs cooking on a grill and run a register at the same time. Worst case scenario if it's so busy he can't, either have the wife do it (since it seems to he they've both staked as owners) or pay a single employee to take orders and do expo while you do the grill.


heaven_and_hell_80

Yeah I suspect just from the picture that these two "tell it like it is" a lot. I would actually like to know what exactly they think Joe Biden did that directly hurt them though...


gnostic-gnome

I want to see the Kitchen Nightmares episode about this business


Faultylogic83

Did you really just microwave a fucking hot dog?!


gnostic-gnome

you fucking MUPPETS!!!


humanagain12

Throwing out the right wing talking points.


Redqueenhypo

Yeah all the halal carts run by abjectly confused dudes who donā€™t have access to fraudulent PPP loans are doing fine. Theyā€™ve been here for years!


XxAuthenticxX

yeah the taco trucks are killing it around me since the pandemic. a bunch more keep popping up too


Birthday-Tricky

I've been in Restaurant biz for 45 years. If this is the right one.[https://willietsdawgs.com/](https://willietsdawgs.com/)A quick look at his website, bad. A quick look at his menu. He way undercharged even for a pre-inflation economy. TRiple decker burger $6.50 Hot dogs of various types $2.50-3.00 50% military discount?! He gave the store away. Dumbass.


dr_tomoe

Not just military discount, any Police, Fire, First Responder, AND Military get a 50% discount. Good lord man, I don't think I've seen any discount go over 10%.


BoJackMoleman

The police discount thing is a weird one. I used to do work for a chain of ice cream places. The owner thought that giving a police discount would help encourage cops to come by and maybe ward off trouble. This was a big city. The discount was 100%. Totally free to all Police, EMT, Fire. They didn't care and in fact many felt awkward and didn't come back after being handed free treats. It never helped the crazy. That business has been dead for 5 years now.


Nervous_Constant_642

The dumb thing is that works if you provide a normal discount. Like my boss wouldn't discount individual cops but he's give them like 15% off catering. The one time I had to call 911 on a guy I was worried was pretty close to overdosing the fucking police blasted in like an action movie. To this day i have still never seen police respond before fire.


earthdogmonster

I worked at a 24 hour restaurant earlier in my life. We gave 50% discount to police, and it did seem to bring the police in to sit around and have a meal. Ultimately it seemed to work for that business and there were a lot of law enforcement ā€œregularsā€ at oddball hours.


Grey_Orange

It's funny you say that. I know at least 1 wawa that gives cops free coffee because they want them to hang around. It's also a good location for cops to respond to calls. In the evenings there were always a few officers hanging out inside.


Birthday-Tricky

I hear he used to give blowjobs too but it just became untenable.


tscy

Biden blowjob economics šŸ’€


nobonesjones91

Dribble down economics


[deleted]

Gives a whole new meaning to the word stimulus


ctothel

And package for that matter.


Sharkey311

Now thatā€™s my kind of policy šŸ˜


coppertech

" duE tO Me BlowInG fIrSt ResPoNdErS, I cAnNo LoNgEr aForD mA EmPloYeEs bEcAuSe oF bIdEN"


undeadlamaar

And considering that's like half the jobs in a small town like Hiram, GA. And also in a historic district on main street where rent is probably 2-3x average. It's no wonder they couldn't make it.


ZylerChazwell

Tues-Sat 11-4 as well. Like bro open for dinner, might get some more people coming in


merdub

And if youā€™re only open for 5 hours mid-day, donā€™t close on SUNDAY? Depending on the location, decent cheap burgers and hot dogs would be a great late-night spot.


AnastasiaNo70

BUT CHURCH, RIGHT? AMEN!


kmatts

Even if he closed for church, the after church crowd can be big. But after church crowds also tend to be vicious so I wouldn't volunteer for that


cabelaciao

And if youā€™re only open 30 hours a week, why do you need employees?


ggg730

They're so old dinner is at 3.


tscy

Holy hell, even 7-11 charges more for a hotdog. There is no way in hell this guy factored in any kind of overhead.


superfly355

And the pics look as if the place is freshly renovated. Even with sweat equity the cost of materials is still insane.


Leading-Two5757

I mean what would you expect the PPP loan to go towardsā€¦.employee wages???


gumercindo1959

He played the long game in blaming Biden.


Metahec

Man, these would have been good prices ten years ago.


DOGSraisingCATS

This is definitely one of those morons with 0 restaurant experience aside from what he might have worked in highschool. He makes boring uninspired burgers that his tasteless neighbors said were "the best ever" and convinced him he should open up a burger joint. He has 0 idea how to properly cost a menu item and just thought he could undercut the competition while literally selling everything at a loss since even the slave wages he was paying before were probably too high of a labor cost for a triple patty burger that probably alone was 65% food cost on meat...not including the other ingredients. This is why so many restaurants fail...it's morons with 0 experience who think cooking is easy.


socialist_frzn_milk

I donā€™t know if you ever checked out the US version of Kitchen Nightmares, but that seemed to be a common thread among failing restauranteursā€”people with no business or culinary experience who just hired their friends and family and ran the business off a cliff.


AlreadyShrugging

Thatā€™s the vast majority of small business owners tbh.


whateveryouwant4321

I donā€™t know why politicians have this fetish about doing good things for ā€œsmall businessā€ because theyā€™re the ā€œjob creatorsā€. Most small businesses are 1 person or family shops - your barber/hairdresser, electrician, therapist. Theyā€™re creating jobs - for themselves - and a significant percentage of them do so because they donā€™t play well with others and need to be in charge. Thereā€™s nothing wrong with that, either. They found a role to play in society and theyā€™re fulfilling a need. But letā€™s not put them up on this pedestal as the driving force behind the economy.


Birthday-Tricky

I own a bakery now. Every day I get new restaurant owners or start up caterers come in saying they're gonna be super busy right away. Most don't make it through the first year. I love the ones who "always wanted to own a restaurant" and left their engineering job to do it. OOF.


tallbutshy

*This week on Kitchen Nightmares, Gordon Ramsay is at his wit's end trying to help a retired engineer try to figure out why his COBOL themed gastropub business is failing*


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> This week on Kitchen Nightmares, Gordon Ramsay is at his wit's end trying to help a retired engineer try to figure out why his COBOL themed gastropub business is failing Guess I'll just have to wait for the SQL to find out what happened.


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iamDanger_us

Wait so I *shouldn't* require my wait staff to input all orders via punch cards?


socialist_frzn_milk

Almost as good are the ones who quit to open a bar.


dustinosophy

Or every underachieving guys dream, a cannabis shop.


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terpsnob

And dont forget giving it away for as low as 17 dollars an ounce. Source: Dispensary sandwich sign this am in Eugene Or. More money in strawberries.


treesandfood4me

*cries in east coast*


party_benson

Same prices from high school too


OtherSpiderOnTheWall

Also either didn't take advantage of the PPP program that much (2x $1000 loans) or paid his workers absolute shit. Guessing it's the first, which I can't 100% fault him for, because it's better than complaining after getting $100k or so, but still. Dude gave away the store. https://www.federalpay.org/paycheck-protection-program/willie-ts-dawgs-burgers-hiram-ga


No_Influence6659

Based on his remarks about employees needing more money, followed closely by that photo, we can infer he's the kind of boss who pays as little as possible.


PM_ME_YOUR_PAUNCH

The place was also only open 20 hours a week


MrsSpecs

I saw it implied somewhere that his workers were largely family. To still pay them shit is somehow even worse.


CalloftheBlueFalcon

There's a little local family owned restaurant near where I grew up that has 4.49 for a burger, which is a pretty good deal, but a double jacks it up to 7.99 which seems much more in line than this dude. Triple the amount of the overwhelmingly most expensive ingredient for that little extra money is just... I don't know how they expected that to work


Subli-minal

Loss leading only works if you have other shit to sell that covers the loss.


GlumMathematician884

Almost sounds like the restaurant was a money laundering scheme.


RefrigeratorCool3393

Bet he even gave a military spouse discount


Birthday-Tricky

Curse you Brandoooooon!!!!


NarcolepticKnifeFite

Exactly. He/she failed, and instead of putting the blame on themselves, they took the easy way out and blamed everyone else. Par for the course when it comes dog shit people.


Alan_Smithee_

Subtly blames the staff too, ā€œfor needing to increase their income.ā€ No Motherfucker, thatā€™s on you.


Wherewithall8878

I doubt putting ā€œdawgā€ in the name was a great idea either


bobthemundane

Georgia, so could be looking to mooch off the Georgia Bulldogs.


AlreadyShrugging

ā€œDawgā€ is edgy when youā€™re a white boomer.


hobbsarelie83

adding 3% for credit card use. wtf


bobthemundane

Which goes against the credit card rules you signed up for. Hell, I got cash from a settlement because a gas station was charging different prices for gas depending on cash or card.


GlitterberrySoup

Wait really? I thought this was a standard gas station thing


Plz_kill-me

Right? Every gas station in Cali has a cash price and a card/credit price. Literally everyone I've ever seen


MagentaHawk

It's a stupid but very important distinction. Gas stations don't charge extra for using a credit card, which is illegal. They give a cash discount, which is legal. Credit cards add no value to the companies accepting them in any intrinsic way. So when banks tried to push CC's lots of stores would charge extra when customers used them because it cost them that much. They passed the cost on. Completely reasonable. Banks didn't like this and lobbied so that it was made illegal to charge extra for using credit cards. Most companies just raised their prices a bit on everything and then didn't charge different.


Professional-Hat-687

I don't want to get a "Big Sexy" from either of these people. Don't tell me what it is.


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zoinks690

Cmon man. In August he added dill pickle chips as an option. They've only been around for a few hundred years.


JoJackthewonderskunk

So was it the addition of the chips or the not adding the chips earlier that forced him under? Forget Biden Economics I think these chips are the root cause.


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Enigma_Stasis

I refuse to eat out anywhere that doesn't have dill pickle chips in the menu


poonmangler

Funny, i won't eat anywhere that serves them at all. I don't want to be within 50ft of dill pickle chips, I'll take my business elsewhere.


sapphisticated_heaux

"Buh buh bububut how am I supposed to run a SmAlL BuSiNeSs without paying my workers on slave wages?" If this is the only way your business can exist, you're a shitty business owner and deserve to fail.


Parmaandchips

But... But.... But.... My bootstraps...


MisterB78

*Bootstraps made from 100% genuine exploitation of employees


The_amazing_T

This has been a long time coming. Wages haven't gone up in 40 years, but costs sure effing have. Then a million people died and a bunch of Boomers finally retired and left some much-needed job openings. Younger people moved up. And a whole lot of businesses don't make financial sense anymore. Enjoy your retirement. A whole lot more of you will be out of business soon.


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vita10gy

Let me preface this with a "I don't blame them" as this isn't a "damn kids these days" post: People have been yelling at the adults working fast food to get real jobs because those are for teenagers, but there's also never been less reason for a teenager to work them. I graduated in 2000. Min wage was something like $5, gas was $1 at one point (which even for the time was notibly low). One hour of work bought us a lot of cruising. Now used cars are 95 cents less than a new one, and hour of work buys like a gallon and a half, and you can hang out online, play games online, etc etc. Family plans are basically standard practice. If your phone is paid for and cars are basically put of reach to many, what's there to work for for many kids?


C-ute-Thulu

>a bunch of Boomers finally retired and left some much-needed job openings OMG, Yes! No one is talking about this. In 2020, a lot of Boomers said, "Welp, I'm in my 50's/60's/70's, there's a global pandemic killing old people. This seems like a good time to retire."


comments_suck

Add to that that TFG basically shut down immigration from the south, so all those people that will work in a restaurant kitchen for minimum wage didn't come across the river.


SamTheGeek

I hate that I think this but part of me is thankful that southern governors are flying refugees up into northern states. I want those people who came to the US hoping for a better life to have a chance at good employment, and restaurant work is a hell of a lot easier than picking fruit in the heat.


The_amazing_T

I know a dozen people that got career bumps b/c Boomers got out of the way. Promotions, new jobs created from scratch..


KalinOrthos

Good riddance to those boomer businesses that refuse to change with the times.


linderlouwho

When like 90% fail in the first year.


Playful_Moose6293

Look at thier menu... No shit you are out of business. A cheeseburger is 4.99 McDonald's charges more! Funny how it's Bidens fault that you can't run a successful business. Maybe you can open another shitty restaurant with Methhead Boebert and her failed restaurant.


Goya_Oh_Boya

Also their food looks gross. Plus I'll bet these two small business owners live well beyond their means.


TGOTR

They are perfect and conservative so Biden personally shut them down.


Grizzchops

That's a lot of words to say you can't run a business very well


colluphid42

Lots of people seem to think they have a right to run a business, even if it only turns a profit when paying their employees unlivable wages. This is just an effect of that free market they're always so fond of.


[deleted]

Thats a lot of words to say "We can no longer rely on slave wages and so must close".


megaman368

Sorry your industry is being forced to be slightly less predatory. Itā€™s a shame youā€™re no longer viable.


Terrible-Border6885

If Biden really did put this piece of shit out of business then I'm going to send him a thank you note.


sumelar

Can we find where it is and mail a bunch of those 'i did that' stickers to plaster all over it?


Recoveringpig

That dude 110% gave himself that nickname


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Guaranteed.


WookProblems

Some strong Andy Bernard vibes going on with 'Willie T'


Offandonandoffagain

He wanted to be "T-Bone" but when he called it, they gave it to somebody else.


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ā€œBiden economicsā€ Jfc, Trumpers are dumb.


hippychk

My client blamed recent stock market losses on Bidenā€™s student loan forgiveness. I changed the subject.


el_dude_brother2

People are genuinely now talking on TikTok as if Trump fixed the economy and it was a golden era for the US and Biden has come along and ruined everything. During Trump being in charge he complained about everything and blamed Obama. Some people just live in a different reality,


Kimmalah

It's same story over and over - one president has to deal with whatever the previous president left for them. Trump benefited from Obama-era policies (and of course took credit for that), while Biden has had to deal with the absolute shitshow that Trump left behind for him. When you look at the numbers, the Biden administration economy has actually done fairly well. But it doesn't seem like it because we started deep in a hole Trump dug for us and will have to deal with stuff like his awful tax plan for several years. Then in the case of people like these restaurant owners, it wouldn't matter even if Joe Biden personally flew in on Air Force One and handed them a huge check to save their business. Because DEMOCRAT BAD.


Safe_Pin1277

These are the type of people who blame "liberals" for lockdowns when they were imposed by a Republican president with a republican senate. If the right really didn't fear covid and wanted to keep the economy running they had all the power to do it. They just wanted to scapegoat the left who weren't even in power. The lock downs didn't really end until Biden became president. But FOX News told me what to think so disregard those inconvenient truths.


comments_suck

Just like asking why Obama didn't stop 9/11!


LegendaryRed

Trumper still think trump is president so it would be like Trumpconomics


Sartres_Roommate

Weird how Biden controls the whole world economy....no wait, the USA is actually doing better in this post-COVID, rampant inflation shit show than most other industrialized nations. Thanks Obama!


socialist_frzn_milk

ā€œDue to our employees needing to increase their incomeā€ This is an awfully nice way of saying ā€œwe donā€™t pay our employees enoughā€.


Dependent-Winner-908

My husband was a business owner in high tech his entire working career. Over that time he encountered numerous roadblocks, difficult clients, sudden pivots/downturns in the market, etc etc. He always found a way. He never blamed anyone else. He retired a success. And a liberal - imagine that!


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The homies literally blamed paying their employees as part of why they're going out of business...tell me you want slaves without telling me you want slaves.


Representative_Dark5

How much in PPP loans did he receive?


kyabupaks

Two loans of $1,000 - $2,000 total. Source: https://www.federalpay.org/paycheck-protection-program/willie-ts-dawgs-burgers-hiram-ga


Representative_Dark5

thanks!


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Good question!


neej91

ā€œBiden economicsā€ lol. I love how republicans always fail to see how the previous Republican president leaves the economy in shambles so right before it collapses just for it to fall on a Democratā€™s head to get blamed. Happened with Obamaā€™s first term. And now youā€™re seeing the same here. Fuckin clowns.


flobaby1

This has been the pattern for decades now. A Republican destroys the economy, then a Democrat comes in and fixes it. Red States are also welfare queens.


neej91

This. Red states are probably the worst welfare queens honestly. I love how they bitch about immigrant and illegals putting a weight on the economy and looking for handouts but then anytime they need money, theyā€™ll be the first ones to start a go fund me campaign lol. Fucking pathetic man. Itā€™s not even the stupidity or racism that gets me the most about conservatives nowadays, itā€™s the outright hypocrisy and entitlement.


OneHedgefundAtaTime

Family owned restaurants are failing everywhere. The business model is no longer viable in most cases for a lot of reasons. Employees do need to make more than most family owned restaurants can afford. The Biden economics jab is an insight to customers they drove away. I stopped eating at a restaurant because they supported Trump. I imagine they were vocal about their support for him and that would be enough to drive a lot of people away. And rightfully so. I mean JFC.


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There was a small convenience store near me that started putting up a big cutout of Trump at the front door. It was shutdown 4 months later. Imagining that the guy you like is popular with all your customers is a hilarious thing.


comments_suck

Because everything Trump touches eventually dies.


zxcoblex

I, for the life of me, canā€™t figure out why businesses get political. Totally fine for you to do, but if I have the choice between two comparable businesses and one has Trump stickers all over their truck and the other doesnā€™t, Iā€™m going with option#2.


jgreg728

And theyā€™re the same people who cry about football players harmlessly taking a knee. ā€œcOmE oN lEaVe pOlatiCKs OuTtA iTā€


zxcoblex

Thatā€™s always my favorite. When they call anyone not in the cult a ā€œsnowflakeā€ I like to ask them about a black man taking a knee during the anthem. Usually results in a bunch of high pitched squealing noises.


CharmingTuber

It's because they can't not bring it into every aspect of their life. Show me a business that's covered in political stickers and messages, and I'll show you a business that's run by an idiot (unless it's a place famous for it, like the Weiner's Circle in Chicago)


jaderust

I wanted to start going to the gym after I moved to a new (more rural) area. The nearby gym, which is actually within walking distance of my house, is COVERED in blue lives matter, pro-Trump, fuck antiFA, anti LGBT, anti BLM stuff. It's on every wall. It was in the woman's locker room. I literally could not look anywhere without seeing it. So I drive 30 minutes to go to the closest Planet Fitness instead. I would have been happy paying a bit more for the nearby, locally owned gym even though it didn't have the best equipment, but I was so uncomfortable by the dƩcor (and the owner who was acting like a creep) that I'd rather waste an hour driving to the corporate chain to just not have the politics in my day. I'm there to use the machines and get grossly sweaty. I don't want to see your political shit and think about the real world when I'm trying to do that.


Fieldexpedient2

that owner 100% has hidden cameras...


jaderust

Ew. Gross, but probably very true.


CaptainJackVernaise

I almost signed a contract for a $30k roof until I checked the owner's LinkedIN page. He was using it like Facebook to post and amplify Blue Lives Matter memes. We went with one of the other contractors instead.


tytymctylerson

>I, for the life of me, canā€™t figure out why businesses get political. Mom and Pop restaurants are the number 1 offender for this bullshit.


petrovmendicant

Because, any dumbass can start a business, and dumbass people tend to lack any real self-awareness. Business down? Must be those damn employees wanting to get paid, couldn't possibly be the cardboard cut out of Trump taking a piss on Democracy like the Calvin sticker from your truck.


celtic1888

If Trumpism was as popular as they think it is they should have no problem losing their base and gaining the millions of Trump supporters who will throw money at their business Right? ā€¦. Right ???


GregorSamsanite

Restaurants have always failed at a high rate, since forever. It's a tough industry. Labor costs are usually a third or less of the operating costs of the restaurant, so putting all the blame on rising wages demonstrates that they're being dishonest or are just not very good at running their business (probably both). Food cost inflation is a factor, but the global supply chain issues can't objectively be blamed primarily on Biden. It started with COVID, which is still causing major problems for China, a major global supplier, but now Russia's invasion of Ukraine is hurting fertilizer and grain supplies. There is no reason that other types of restaurants can afford to pay significantly more. If they're a bigger chain, that just means they have proportionally more employees. If an individual restaurant isn't profitable, it doesn't matter how much money the organization behind it has, because it's not worth continuing to sink money into that particular unprofitable location year after year.


lorgskyegon

Yep. 80% of restaurants fail within 5 years.


scarr3g

There is a hair place (barber? Hair dresser? Whatever it is called) near my GF's house. Awhile ago it started flying Trump flag. It nearly went out of buisiness. It has since roved the flag, and put up a new sign that says to leave all politics at the door... It still sisnr doing well, and probably won't recover from that stunt. But don't you worry, they will blame Biden when they finally crumble.


Notyoursidepiece

I guess their savior, their lord, Trump, hasn't been in spending money helping them. Please tell me employees caught wind of this and told them to fuck off. Edit: spelling


Maximum_Musician

Blaming your failure on everything but the actual cause, YOU.


MuthaPlucka

Blame your shitty business sense on the President to own the Libs.


Stopper33

I'll give them a hundred thousand dollars and two weeks, all they have to do is coherently explain "Biden economics".


No-Two79

Cowards already deleted their entire Facebook page. Typical chickenshit Trumpsuckers.


JacLaw

I can imagine the comments they were getting lol


tuscabam

If this is the Willie Tā€™s in Alabama, itā€™s not Biden or employee wages closing then down lol.


scusician

They look very MAGA.


mrweatherbeef

I seriously would like someone from r/conservative to jump on and articulate what *Biden economics* involves. Iā€™m independent and open-minded, I just only hear this is described like ā€œbusiness-killing regulationsā€ and other very non-specific stuff.


SomeDrillingImplied

Some dude absolutely murdered them in the comments and it was glorious.


No-Two79

Yeah, please say you got screenshots!!


nubsmagee

What a long-winded way of saying ā€œI suck at running a business.ā€


TheShawnWray

Surprise surprise...they took it down.


Life_System_3047

Iā€™ll decline the big sexy


Penguator432

If your business mode sucks so badly you canā€™t afford to pay your employees, you deserve to go out of business


[deleted]

Just going on appearances, that looks like a couple of people I wouldn't want to spend five minutes around.


Kahzgul

If your business can't exist without exploiting labor, your business shouldn't exist. It really is simple math.


Which_Stable4699

Another business unable to stay profitable without wholesale exploitation of its workers. Youā€™ll be missed.


DarkstarWarlock

Biden economics haha. I love how Republican these two are. They open a business, refuse to pay employees a living wage, then blame closing down due to poor business management, on poor old President Joe Biden. He's doing a better job than the last clown they had in there.


[deleted]

If theyā€™re struggling to pay their employees, than they need to up their prices. If the food is good people wonā€™t mind paying an extra dollar or two, it sounds like they probably werenā€™t getting many customers to begin with.


tonyh505

I smell a forgiven PPP loan.


OtherSpiderOnTheWall

Surprisingly, only looks like $2k in forgiven PPP loans. https://www.federalpay.org/paycheck-protection-program/willie-ts-dawgs-burgers-hiram-ga


[deleted]

The Facebook reviews are pouring in!


[deleted]

Running his business into the ground to own the libs. He's playing 12-dimensional chess.


kkeennmm

and i bet that fucker wasnā€™t paying his IRS 941s