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McDonald's discriminates against Black franchisees, lawsuit claims
Reuters ^ | Sept. 1, 2020 | Jonathan Stempel and Bhargav Acharya

Posted on 09/01/2020 6:55:59 AM PDT by rickmichaels

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To: Jewbacca

Let’s supposed McDonald’s thought black owners might be community dynamics. It’s what people are demanding of police.


21 posted on 09/01/2020 7:44:23 AM PDT by dangus (```)
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To: rickmichaels

God-damn it, stop capitalizing “black”!


22 posted on 09/01/2020 7:48:10 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: rickmichaels

Last place you want to eat is a fast food joint that is mandated to hire based on demographics. They survive because they are subsidized, and the only business they get is first/last time customers.


23 posted on 09/01/2020 8:07:51 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: rickmichaels
OH HORSESHIT! New franchisees have always had to take locations that don't infringe on existing owner/operators locations, that was the policy before I worked for them, while I worked for them and after I worked for them.................unless you are a 'minority' or woman. I personally know of several times that corporation screwed over existing 'White' male owner/ operators to give new locations that financially impacted their existing stores to a minority or woman just so they could increase the proper 'ratio' as demanded by social justice warriors. And I know of one 'White' operator who sued the corporation because of it and got a very large very private settlement.

Very few franchise locations are guaranteed to be profitable right from day one, except for the corporation that takes no risk and collects their percentage of sales no matter what and their rent and service fees no matter what. It is a given that a new franchisee will be in the negative for a couple years at least.

24 posted on 09/01/2020 8:11:23 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Blue Jays

Just a remark in passing. There are two Golden Arches locations in York, PA that I patronized when I lived near York. Memory Lane in East York, and S. George St. in South York. I don’t know if they were black owned, but blacks made up the majority of their help and their clientele. I often noted that I was often the only paleface in joint at the time. The always seemed to be doing well.


25 posted on 09/01/2020 10:21:46 AM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: Leaning Right

I’d point to that BK in SF. Nice area, but the city does nothing about the bum problem, so the store closed.


26 posted on 09/01/2020 10:42:21 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Mastador1

Back in the 1990’s, fewer than 10 McDonald’s had ever failed (I think they started in 1955?). A McDonald’s franchise used to be close to a sure thing. I’m fairly certain in the past few years, hundreds have failed each year.


27 posted on 09/01/2020 10:50:29 AM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: CedarDave

This is one of my concerns about Trump’s opportunity zones.

In the previous incarnation, they were called “enterprise zones” - not sure when they were started, but they existed through the early Obama years.

Whites could receive aid - dang, was it grants or just loans? Maybe it was just loans. A family member looked into it - the bad part was that you had to locate your business in a depressed area (our redlining bad; their redlining good). The program was designed to fail, and it did.

When I get a chance, I’ll see if I can find some stories about it.


28 posted on 09/01/2020 10:58:29 AM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: the OlLine Rebel
God-damn it, stop capitalizing “black”!

Agreed - we need to stop letting the left manipulate language.

Whenever we see this b.s., add a '(sic)' after either the capitalized 'black' or the lower case 'white'.

29 posted on 09/01/2020 11:06:34 AM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I'm a white male, and guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white g uilt' elsewhereive)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Micky D’s is a business in business to make money.

Why would a business set up a store to fail?

And to the franchise owners, there are other fast food companies out there.


30 posted on 09/01/2020 11:07:25 AM PDT by Texas resident (Remember in November)
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To: bassmaner

Yes, sic.

I don’t mind leaving both uncapitalized, but it needs to be consistent.

Of course, to be consistent and brief I’ve always believed we should also be saying red and yellow, too.


31 posted on 09/01/2020 12:03:41 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: scrabblehack

I’m fairly certain you are wrong, but of course YMMV.


32 posted on 09/01/2020 3:18:08 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Mastador1

I heard it at an Amway pitch then, and I assumed it was true. I had heard it when I was growing up too....perhaps it was urban folklore...


33 posted on 09/01/2020 3:49:27 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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