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Nice way to do business with both your customers and your employees (in California):
A friend of mine was just at Marie Callender’s and mid lunch. the restaurant shut down. Didn’t even let them finish eating or pay. Apparently they got a fax from HQ that said they had to close immediately.
UPDATE: Just got an email from a former waitress. She tells us the restaurant didn’t give them any warning at all, and they were shocked when they learned they no longer had a job. She says there are now signs on the doors announcing the closure.
According to the anonymous waitress, other locations that closed are in Napa, Capitola, Elk Grove, San Ramon, Daly City, Salinas, Simi Valley, Los Angeles, Merced & Hayward.
Huh, not very nice. The one MC in Tucson (around the corner from me, at the Tucson Mall) is closed, too. We ate there once; were not impressed, and never went back.
Nice way to do business with both your customers and your employees (in California):
A friend of mine was just at Marie Callender’s and mid lunch. the restaurant shut down. Didn’t even let them finish eating or pay. Apparently they got a fax from HQ that said they had to close immediately.
UPDATE: Just got an email from a former waitress. She tells us the restaurant didn’t give them any warning at all, and they were shocked when they learned they no longer had a job. She says there are now signs on the doors announcing the closure.
According to the anonymous waitress, other locations that closed are in Napa, Capitola, Elk Grove, San Ramon, Daly City, Salinas, Simi Valley, Los Angeles, Merced & Hayward.
I won't be patronizing them again if they successfully come out of their planned Chapter 11, no matter HOW good their pies are.
How could a business be this cruel and engender this much ill will in these harsh economic times?
That's how it is in the restaurant business although some states have laws that if you layoff more than a certain number of people warning has to be given.
Restaurants fear giving notice because their staff will quit before they close for good. During freshman year in undergrad I stayed at school during break to work at a restauarant. There were rumors they were in trouble but when confronted the owners they denied it. Then about two days before Xmas I report to my shift and see the doors locked.
Nice way to do business with both your customers and your employees (in California):
A friend of mine was just at Marie Callender’s and mid lunch. the restaurant shut down. Didn’t even let them finish eating or pay. Apparently they got a fax from HQ that said they had to close immediately.
UPDATE: Just got an email from a former waitress. She tells us the restaurant didn’t give them any warning at all, and they were shocked when they learned they no longer had a job. She says there are now signs on the doors announcing the closure.
According to the anonymous waitress, other locations that closed are in Napa, Capitola, Elk Grove, San Ramon, Daly City, Salinas, Simi Valley, Los Angeles, Merced & Hayward.
I won't be patronizing them again if they successfully come out of their planned Chapter 11, no matter HOW good their pies are.
How could a business be this cruel and engender this much ill will in these harsh economic times?
How crazy is that?
I wonder if other chain restaurants have an abort procedure. Will the conveyor belt at Burger King stop immediately leaving whoppers stranded in the middle?
Will sandwich artists at subway leave their creations half completed?
The cheapest pies are the ones you bake yourself, and better for you
Cheaper yes, better...not necessarily.
Behold the Cherpumple
Bottom: Pumpkin pie inside a spice cake Middle: Apple pie inside a yellow cake Top: Cherry pie inside a white cake, all surrounded by cream cheese frosting
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