Darden Restraunt Brands...So you know....Against sick pay for their employees..

[Stuart G]

See the story below..This chain is against sick pay for employees. It helped to draft a bill with Disney World in the Florida Legislature to prevent localities from passing laws which would have mandated sick pay.

original post in Latest News by onehandle

from his post.............
"The Florida Senate voted Friday to prevent local communities their enacting their own wage and benefits laws until a statewide study can be conducted, The Orlando Sentinel reports."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014467902

Here are the brands..

Red Lobster
Olive Garden
Long Horn Steakhouse
Bahama Breeze
Seasons 52
The Capital Grille
Eddie V's
Yard House
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So, local communities cannot have local control....sounds like the big government from Florida wants to control the localities.....
.doesn't sound fair to me...if localities want to control their businesses...say like zoning..they have that right..don't they? or is that also controlled by the state...? Think about the hypocrisy...

[grasswire]

1. Darden's brands are not all doing well.

Red Lobster and Olive Garden particularly. They are prolly on an "austerity" footing.

[Journeyman]

2. I haven't been to any of those places in years. Too much butter & cream on everything . . .

You'd think, for a chain that specializes in obesity and heart disease, they'd favor health care as a means to keep their best customers coming back.

[antigone382]

26. I worked for them...it generally wasn't butter.

Enjoy your "buttery sauce" (also known as MSG-infused, partially hydrogenated soybean oil with proprietary seasonings).

It was hands-down the most inhuman, soulless place I ever worked.

[edhopper]

3. Better to go to a local place that serves real food

than factory produced corporate swill.

[randr]

4. Last time I was at an Olive Garden

our waitperson coughed the whole time. We felt so sorry for her because we knew she had to work or else.

[timdog44]

5. I am for people

having sick pay. Ridiculous not to.

The thing I see here is that the states that push the hardest for state's rights are the first in line to deny locality rights. The hypocracy of, lets see -- which party?

[secondvariety]

14. Bingo.

The asshats in Tallahassee have over ridden local governments from gun laws to school taxes to pensions and everything in between. They basically want to starve local governments into submission.

Two years and I'm outta this festering hellhole.

[timdog44]

15. Good luck

holding out for the next years.

[Honeycombe8]

6. Seems to me that localities should have the right to set their own rules.

If businesses don't like it and move, then localities will change it back, if it matters that much to the area.

[lpbk2713]

7. So it follows ... unwell employees are more likely to come to work out of necessity.

And if they have something communicable (cold, flu, etc) they
are more likely to pass it on to Darden's valued customers.


Thanks a lot Darden on behalf of your employees.

[Initech]

8. One day we will rise up against these greedy bastards.

And I hope that day comes soon. This is shit that should not be.

[City Lights]

9. I haven't been to any of those in decades.

I hope to live long enough to see the public rise up against our corporate overlords.

[freedom fighter jh]

10. No sick leave -> people forced to work when they're sick.

At a restaurant. Many of them handling food. Spreading germs.

[A Little Weird]

11. Olive Garden

I know it is not loved on DU but I've always liked it. I hardly ever eat there since they don't have one in my town but it was something I might do on occasion when traveling. But I won't eat there now after hearing this. Disrespectful to both employees and customers.

[hobbit709]

12. Not a one of those I go to.

[onethatcares]

13. the florida senate

is worried about big government intruding on state government. they cannot see the irony here.

the florida senate, the best bought representation in the U.S. of A.

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. So it's big gub'mint

until we do it?

[Omaha Steve]

17. Stopped going to Red Lobster years ago because....

K&R BTW!

http://www.seashepherd.org/documents/seals/red_lobster.html




The Canadian commercial seal hunt is the largest marine mammal slaughter in the world. Every year, Canadian fishermen—most of whom are from the province of Newfoundland—bludgeon or shoot, and then skin over 300,000 young seals. Most are only a few weeks old. Tens of thousands are skinned alive.

The fishermen kill the seals for their skins. Other products like marine oil, meat, and penises are of secondary importance. The seals' skins are sold to satisfy the frivolous whims of the fur trinket, fur fashion, and exotic leather industries—industries that thrive on ignorance, vanity, cruelty, and greed.

At the end of the sealing season, most Newfoundland sealers, and particularly boat owners who profit most from sealing, go crab fishing. Snow crab is the sealers' and Newfoundland's most important seafood export. In 2003, Newfoundland exported $467 million worth of seafood worldwide; $350 million of that was snow crab sold to the United States where the Red Lobster restaurant chain is the sealers' largest customer.

Please ask Red Lobster President Kim Lopdrup to help end the Canadian commercial seal hunt by not serving Canadian seafood to his guests until Canadian fishermen stop killing the seals.

Kim A. Lopdrup, President
Red Lobster Restaurants
PO Box 593330
Orlando FL 32859-3330

5900 Lake Ellenor Dr.
Orlando FL 32809-4634

Tel: [phone]
1 [phone]

e-mail: www.redlobster.com/contact_us/

[TNNurse]

18. common plans

Do not pay minimum wage, do not provide health care or sick days. Clearly these people have no concern or respect for their employees or their customers. I bet they live in nice houses, drive nice cars and go to church and pretend to be nice people.

[alp227]

20. Well said. WELCOME TO DU!!!!!

[madrchsod]

28. welcome to du.......

[rucky]

19. How am I supposed to punish them?

when I'd never set foot in one on the food alone?

[Doremus]

23. Spread the word.

Do your best to discourage anyone you know from patronizing these places.

That's what I plan to do.

[TRoN33]

21. Been to the top three on the list and rest I don't know but...

I never really liked all of these restaurants at all anyways. I can make my own Philly Cheese Steak 110% better than Longhorn Steakhouse.

[Overseas]

22. Medicare for All. Enough already. I want my taxes to provide health care for us all.

[wilsonbooks]

24. I suggest that we post this on their facebook pages.

I did.

[rl6214]

25. I worked for Darden Rests for 24 years

Specifically Red Lobster. They lost their compassion for their employees about 2005 with a change in upper level management. I left in 07 just for that reason.

[antigone382]

27. I worked for them for a year and a half back in 2009.

Absolutely the worst job of my life. They made it so abundantly clear that your humanity was not important, that you were completely replaceable, and that employing you was almost a burden to them. I would never work there again, much less eat there.

[rl6214]

29. I have not been back to any Darden restaurant since I left in 07

The Kim lopdrop regime ruined the company.

[Mopar151]

30. Our local Italian (Dominicks)

Kicks ass of any mass produced italian, and the difference in price does'nt pay the gas to go further to the chain joints.

[eppur_se_muova]

31. Needs to be referred to as the "Typhoid Mary" law.

The reason she kept cooking for people was that she needed the income.

[TacoD]

32. Aww shiiitttt, Yard House is Darden??

I see they bought them in 2012.