Posted on 05/27/2022 12:09:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
He says he went into the restaurant and found nobody in the kitchen, and no customers in the building.
If you've tried to order from a fast-food restaurant recently, you may have noticed a longer wait for service.
A Pittsburgh's Action News 4 viewer shared a video of one local restaurant with not a single employee or customer inside.
(Click the video player above to watch.)
"Showed up to this Burger King on Noblestown Road, and there is nobody in here. Nobody in here. Went to the drive-through, nothing," he says in the video.
In the video, Lazz Tantalo described his experience when he tried to order food on a Friday afternoon.
He went through the drive-through and saw no workers; went into the dining room and found no one there.
He even opened the door but found no one in the kitchen: "Anybody here? Hello?"
Pittsburgh's Action News 4 learned that the single employee who showed up for their shift that day just left. A manager eventually showed up to lock the doors until the restaurant could be staffed.
Chris Briem, of the Center for Social & Urban Research at the University of Pittsburgh, says this is a sign of the times.
"Businesses always need to be agile to be successful. I think this has just sort of been an extreme case of, you've got to be willing to adapt rapidly to changing circumstances," he said.
Briem said that when COVID-19 hit, many Americans who were able to retire chose to do that, and the large numbers of student workers that were seen in the past are not returning to the workforce.
For customers who are frustrated when they can't get a quick meal on the go, scenes like this one may not go away soon.
"I think employers are going to have to adjust, you know? There will probably be fewer workers out there. They're going to adapt and shift," Briem said. "Some employers can add more automation, can add more capital and technology to make their businesses work with fewer employees."
burger king doesn’t have a grill. They have a broiler, you have to go thru a start up check list, load the burger onto a belt and the bun on another and wait for it to pop out.
Fall practical purposes, I cannot see how these places are making enough money to stay open. They serve about 1 person every 7-12 minutes at best.
Dickey’s BBQ in Myrtle Beach did the same thing to me.
now that’s having it your way...
I think I would’ve done that. Leave the money, minus the labor.
Couldn’t you cook the burger by putting it in the fries tray, and frying it?
Customer walks into empty Burger King …………. orders nothingburger.
I walked into a Krystal in east Pensacola to get lunch while my tires were being replaced, but there was only enough staff to serve the drive-through.
I worked at one in Gaithersburg, MD in 1985. That broiler both cooks the meat and toasts the buns at the same time.
Bidenomics will soon cure the problem of people not wanting / needing to work. After a while ongoing double digit inflation will prove a strong motivator.
So how are those workers managing to live? Oh wait, their fellow Americans are furnishing them with a really great life.
Possibly a nothingburger but possibly bad stuff.
If you walk into a fast food restaurant and no one is there, get out quickly, get to a safe location, and call the cops. There have been robberies where the perps herd the staff into a cooler or the basement, sometimes with murder in mind as this one in 2000 in New York City:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy's_massacre
WHOPPERS!! Some assembly required
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Fried_Chicken_murders
“”I think employers are going to have to adjust, you know? “
One adjustment they can make is to put a sign in the window that the place is closed and lock the doors! :-)
So many questions about the manager(s) at that Burker King - what did they know, when did they know it, what did THEY do.
If the one BK worker in the report is to be believed the manager(s) were among those who never showed up for work.
Imagine buying food at a drug-fueled rave orgy. I avoid fast food places.
But...we need a guaranteed minimum income because no more jobs exist
” Leave the money, minus the labor.”
Yeah, He would temporary staff and management!!
I'm sure they're do really well once the RATs raise minimum wage to $25 an hour. Sarc...
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