Thief... and you're OK with that???I once worked for a company which sold equipment to overseas companies. The mark-ups used were unbelievable. ;-)
There is a restaurant here in Houston which sells $20 hamburgers. LOL
Was it a sabrett’s? They are worth $30. Wouldn’t pay more than $25 for a Nathan’s
“reboot my sauerkraut” HAHA
Was it a Papaya King?
“Agree. “
Agree that the boss was pissed about his unethical conduct ruining the name of the BOSS’s business?
Agree that it was ok for him to rip off his BOSS!
Agree that that the BOSS wouldn’t be pissed off about learning this on TV!
“Who knew hot-dog men could be fired? “
His boss knew.
The ONLY reason that they shut this guy down is that he didn’t grease the right palms of the right politicians. NYC is like the soviet union when it comes down to business goes like this: If you don’t pay off the right businesss interests and politcians, then you don’t do business in the city.
This is common practice in cities nationwide, not just NYC.
If you challenge that fact, then you’ll more than likely you’ll become just another unresolved murder statistic.
But getting the law involved? No. IMHO, a fundamental part of the way America used to operate was relying on a self-policing society. If somebody cheated at cards, other patrons tossed him out. If somebody played fast and loose with the preacher's daughter, the locals ran him out of town. These days people can't even take a dirty look without running crying to "the man." Keep the law out of it.
“I fired him over it yesterday after I watched the news,” said Abdelbaky, whose father owns the food cart and vending license.
“He told me he charged the people $2 a hot dog. He lied to me.”
Abdelbaky said the vendor pocketed the extra dough — and left his family with hundreds of dollars in fines to pay off.
http://nypost.com/2015/05/22/vendor-fired-for-selling-tourists-30-hot-dogs/
I believe in the free market but he stole from his employer.
Did any of his “victims” bother to tell him to get bent or try negotiating?
Obviously these people have not gone to Mexico and paid the Gringo (i.e. stupid) tax.
My understanding is that he was ripping off tourists who did not understand the value of US money and thought they were paying the same market price as the other customers.
It is like me going to Japan and trusting the Squid vendor to charge me the same number of Yen as the native guy who ordered ahead of me.
He is a con artist.
This guy was an employee, not a businessman. He ripped off some customers and pocketed the ill gotten gain. A real businessman would find the sweet spot where profit is maximized over the long haul.
He violated a regulation that was intended to prevent scamming: failure to list prices. How can anyone applaud his behavior?
Thief... and you're OK with that???No one forces you to buy his expensive hot dogs but the Govt forces you to pay ‘their’ expensive taxes. Who is the bigger villain and rip off artist?
Probably NYC grants a permit to the vendor and no permit no cart. Want a permit? good luck. Bribe some bureaucrat. Get on a waiting list. They set up a monopoly for their cart vendors with a permit then regulate his conduct. More anti-capitalist fail.
Tent canvas with rubberized coating $3k and someone carrying that same bag is upset with buying a $30 hot dog????Did he have a posted $30 price, or did he let people assume it would be something less outrageous like five bucks, and then say, “Here’s your hotdog, that will be $30?” “No, you can’t give it back to me, you’ve touched it.”
If the first, it’s a high price and he’s charging what the traffic will bear. If the second, it’s deceptive.
People complained about him, but never complain about the government seizing hard-earned money from citizens.