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Stay open on Christmas, McDonald s franchisees expected

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by: JamesSanders00 Active Indicator LED Icon  OP  New Member
~ 10 years ago   Jun 21, '13 5:31am  
Many major merchants took heat recently when they chose to keep employees on the clock and from their families on Thanksgiving Day. Now McDonald’s is playing the Ebenezer Scrooge card by asking its franchisees to stay open on Christmas Day. It is unlikely that those store owners will be putting in the hours behind the stainless steel counter on December 25. Article source: why now don't examine personalmoneynetwork .com/?Expected to stay openThe world's number-one hamburger chain (with 34,000 restaurants that feed 69 million a day) that espouses family-friendliness has traditionally closed its doors on main holidays. Evidently nobody cares anymore though.Last month, franchisees were asked to stay open on Thanksgiving.Jim Johannesen is the chief operations officer in the U.S. for the company, according to Advertising Age, and he said: "Starting with Thanksgiving, ensure your restaurants are open throughout the holidays."Many of those stores did do the same. Now the Golden Arch-shadowed clown wants the burgers to keep flipping on Christmas day as well.Johannesen said, "Our largest holiday opportunity as a system is Christmas Day. Last year, (company-operated) restaurants that opened on Christmas averaged $5,500 in sales."Depends upon individual shopsMcDonald’s spokeswoman Heather Oldani made it clear that each individual store owner can decide whether they want to keep shops open or not.Boost in competitionMcDonald’s did really well last year making it the top fast food chain in the market regardless of the bad economy. There is more competition now and sales are decreasing. There is a new CEO Don Thompson who took over in July.However, they rebounded in Nov. "Our November results was driven, in part, by our Thanksgiving Day performance," Johannesen wrote in a December 12 memo.According to Oldani, 12,000 more McDonald's stores stayed open this Thanksgiving than in the past. That, however, contradicts the 6,000 more reported by Advertising Age.Beginning to get desperateThe Chicago Tribune reported that some franchise owners are worried by the request. One previous owner, Richard Adams, said, "It's an act of desperation. The franchisees are not happy."Staying open on the holidays goes against family values that business founder Ray Kroc would have wanted. He said workers should get Thanksgiving and Christmas off so family time could be established as the most essential thing.Tough competition makes all the main difference, I guess.SourcesChicago TribuneDaily FinanceNews 10 4951
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TexINS Active Indicator LED Icon 12
~ 10 years ago   Jun 21, '13 5:56am  
If an individual franchisee wants to stay open on Christmas that is their right. When I was in high school I worked at the moive theatre on Thanksgiving and Christmas. Those two days were very busy. I didn't mind it was nice to get out of the house and I got paid time and a half for working holidays. 4951
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BooBear Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 10 years ago   Jun 21, '13 7:13am  
Where I work we do close on the major holidays but the customers get mad if they can't get their product on Thanksgiving day or Christmas. They don't care if someone has to work a holiday FOR them. 4951
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Fallon Active Indicator LED Icon 18
~ 10 years ago   Jun 21, '13 8:35am  
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Becky Active Indicator LED Icon 1
~ 10 years ago   Jun 22, '13 2:32pm  
I feel this is just another step in society deterioration. Where are our family traditions, obligations going? It's bad enough they get minimum wage and now have to work the two major holidays. Yikes!,,,, 4951
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mpjp0907 Active Indicator LED Icon 12
~ 10 years ago   Jun 22, '13 2:46pm  
Ya I'm against this. Where's it stop then ya know? 4951
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Jake_Bob Active Indicator LED Icon 1
~ 10 years ago   Jun 22, '13 4:07pm  
How terrible for them. I guess they are not a lucky as hospital workers, police, fire, utility and refinery workers who get to work every holiday.  4951
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BooBear Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 10 years ago   Jun 22, '13 4:08pm  
Ya I'm against this. Where's it stop then ya know?
 
@mpjp0907:
 
It will stop when people Are not desperate to find a store open on those days because they forgot something.
 
A big chain will not be open if there are not going to
Be open and pay employees a premium if there is no reason to or if they think they won't make money doing it. 4951
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Retired_Engineer Active Indicator LED Icon 13
~ 10 years ago   Jun 22, '13 4:32pm  
I spent quite a few holidays (including Christmas), as well as weekends, at a chemical plant or refinery during my working years.  I also had to postpone vacations a couple of times.  During turnarounds, we were on call 24/7 and sometimes slept on a cot in our office.I don't see what the issue here is. 4951
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EvanCarroll Active Indicator LED Icon 6
~ 10 years ago   Jun 22, '13 6:30pm  
Wow, some positive comments on this one. This is just part of class warfare though. Americans need to work more every year, and receive less pay otherwise the Capitalists will not receive their due wealth-increases. The more you produce, the more they can extract..
So a worker sees his boss pulling into the parking lot one day in a screaming hot sports car on their way in to work and says to him "nice car boss!" to which the boss replies "hell yes! and with due diligence, if you put in the hours and keep working hard, I'll have a nicer one next year!"
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jax Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 10 years ago   Jun 23, '13 8:00am  
Difference(s) between working in a chemical plant, hospital as a nurse, doctor or specialist and working at McDonald's?
 
McDonald's employees are paid minimum wage while the others are on salary.
 
McDonald's employees are primarily temporary jobs while those others are professional positions.
 
By the way...holiday pay is double time. If they don't give you that, don't volunteer to work that day. Oh...and they can't make you work on holidays either. 4951
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BooBear Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 10 years ago   Jun 23, '13 8:13am  
Wow, some positive comments on this one. This is just part of class warfare though. Americans need to work more every year, and receive less pay otherwise the Capitalists will not receive their due wealth-increases. The more you produce, the more they can extract..
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>> So a worker sees his boss pulling into the parking lot one day in a screaming hot sports car on their way in to work and says to him "nice car boss!" to which the boss replies "hell yes! and with due diligence, if you put in the hours and keep working hard, I'll have a nicer one next year!"
 
@EvanCarroll:
 
You surprise me on this one. I wouldn't think you would be for treating Christmas day any different than any other day. In fact I would think you would be demanding that stores stay open and not recognizing a religious holiday. 4951
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KristiH Active Indicator LED Icon 1
~ 10 years ago   Jun 23, '13 9:58am  
How terrible for them. I guess they are not a lucky as hospital workers, police, fire, utility and refinery workers who get to work every holiday. 
 
@Jake_Bob:  Don't forget the airlines and hotels who have to work those holidays as well so people can get to where they need to go to see their family members.  
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EvanCarroll Active Indicator LED Icon 6
~ 10 years ago   Jun 23, '13 11:12am  
You surprise me on this one. I wouldn't think you would be for treating Christmas day any different than any other day. In fact I would think you would be demanding that stores stay open and not recognizing a religious holiday.
 
@BooBear: I dislike Capitalist exploitation more than I dislike superstitious nonsense.
Christmas doesn't make sense, but certainly a winter holiday with the family does. And, if Christians got up and dropped their superstition they'd see really quick that all this amounts to is another couple of hundred dollars to the NYSE for each McDonalds location, and that it comes at a massive cost. It's a huge concession from the American family structure and it'll uniquely hit the poorset amongst us.Capitalism is at least as vile than Christianity. Be careful Christians, it won't be socialists or atheists that ask you go back to work on the weekends, it'll be those Capitalist money managers that saturate the affluent churches. 4951
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BooBear Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 10 years ago   Jun 23, '13 11:17am  
Retail stores will be open because of DEMAND/consumers not because of supply. 4951
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EvanCarroll Active Indicator LED Icon 6
~ 10 years ago   Jun 23, '13 11:22am  
Retail stores will be open because of DEMAND/consumers not because of supply.
 
@BooBear: Nonsense, that is just individualist capitalist morality. What makes it right to be open every day of the year just because it is profitable? In the 1800s, Children worked because of "DEMAND". In the 1800s men were absent in the household for 12 hours a day working -- also "DEMAND". What you're forced to do because of environmental economic issues, is not right.People shopping at Walmart on Christmas is no more "right" than a scab breaking a picket line, or a kid buying meth, or the government buying fighter jets. Selfish desire does not establish a morality. 4951
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