They were open at odd hours, working for tips, customers waited up to 40 minutes for a grilled cheese sandwich, and often the staff would get into arguments with customers. Haha!
Any surprise it closed?
How many restaurant workers/members were also assassinated and buried in unmarked graves out in the back?
That’s also the Marxist way.
They were only following the Communist model. Institute a five year plan. Pretend to pay the workers and they pretend to work.
Fail.
Ping, Comrade!
The “hours” thing is a pet peeve of mine. If you open up a retail business and you post specific hours, you are open those hours come hell or high water. If you say you are open until nine, but at 8:45 you’ve not seen a customer in 2 hours, you STILL wait 15 minutes to close the doors.
I moved to rural KY from Seattle about five years ago. I see a lot of businesses that do this “flexible hours” thing. I patronize none of them. I want to know, that if I need a certain tool or part and it’s 5:45 and I can make it to the store by a few minutes before six, their closing time, that they WILL be open, as they say they will be. One time, and I’m done with them.
This comes as no surprise to anyone who has actually had a job.
I remember Professor Hansen from my Poli Sci days at Indiana University in 1979. In his seminar, which should have been called “Soviet Communism Here and Now” he advocated the usual crap about “workers controlling the means of production.” Having worked a real job in commercial construction all summer, I knew his plan had 3 consequences:
1. The building isn’t going to be built
2. Because the Worker’s Committee is going to be convened in the parking lot with a case of beer and a bucket of chicken, and
3. The “means of production” (company tools) are going home with the Workers’ Committee and are not being returned in the morning.
I wish I’d had the balls to suggest to the Professor that students should also control the means of production of grades, that we all vote ourselves A+ grades for the semester, cut the nonsense and reconvene at Nick’s for some cold beer.
I am surprised it lasted five years!
Most five year plans don’t.
“Any surprise it closed?”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=vegan%20restaurant
Remember, socialism is still a good idea, it’s just that this time (again), it wasn’t implemented properly.
I think they need to tweak their business model. Start selling ribs, chicken wings, and real hamburgers. Have a burger that weighs 3 lbs, and call it “heart attack” I am sure business will pick up.
What happened? The employees wouldn’t work for free?
They didn’t do a Marxist business properly. The would have done fine if people were forced to patronize the place, and were punished severely if they failed to give glowing praise.
as usual, the brilliant, insightful and hilarious comments on this thread do not disappoint!
It’s not a Marxist restaurant, unless the government forced them to do it. If it’s a business model they voluntarily choose, then it’s capitalist.
No, just shocked that it lasted 5 years.
Imagine if the DMV were converted to a sandwich shop...you’d get this.
The long march through the restaurant institution didn’t last long.