#frisch's

[andaradagio]

Dayton, Ohio, 2022 da Jake Lester

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[imabeaver]

16 June 2019

a twofer!!!

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"Retards” need not apply at Frisch’s Big Boy.

My time working at Frisch’s has been a few months short but I’ve had enough for a lifetime. A manager here known as Bianca has had an apparent history of driving off employees and harassing autistic individuals, but that became more than apparent when I started working there. After my first day at the job, mere days after it got out that I had Aspergers Syndrome, she told me over phone that I was not coming in anymore.

Here’s the short version of what’s been going on since then, long version down below

Outraged, we quickly figured out that was exactly the reason. They played it off as me misunderstanding them, that Bianca understood and told my mom that she understood, that she had an autistic child.

All of it lies of course. Over time, as I continued to work, she grew more and more harsh in trying to force me out. She kept me to one day a week-- A 4 hour shift from 10-2 on sunday, during the after-church lunch rush. Frisch’s is popular with the older people in this town, so this was always the busiest time.

For a long time before I joined, this was a shift that was shared by 2-3 people. However, two weeks after I arrived, it was suddenly a 1-person job according to this person, sending the person trying to help me to do other tasks or on break (Despite her telling me company policy prohibits breaks during this shift.)

I had a friend there named Scott who worked a consistent schedule for two and a half or so years, who supported and enjoyed my company and offered to be my 2nd to help catch up, only to be pulled away by Bianca and told not to interfere because they were trying to make me quit. He told her that was wrong.

Ever since, he’d been having his schedule changed on him, given solo dish duty on friday with no one scheduled for the morning so he would walk into a full dish line. It got bad enough that he ended up quitting. Ever since then, most others in the restaurant have avoided me.

Other things that Bianca has done: -Referred to me explicitly as a retard -Fired an 11-year employee, Tammy Campbell, for being unavailable on two days to take care of her 12 year old autistic child, quoted “Frisch’s is not responsible for your child being autistic, or a retard.” -Fired said employee’s daughter by calling her in at 4 AM to come in at 6, and firing her for arriving at 6:02 -Outright lied about my shifts. She would put up new schedules after I left, but when I called, she would give me an hour after she had me scheduled for, and call asking if I was going to showed up. -Harrassed and bullied a neurodivergent busser to the point she forced him to defecate himself in the restaurant. -Stated repeatedly of being “tired of retards.” -Lying about giving me shifts that never happened to make it seem like my few hours were that I’d been “Shown as unable to keep up with solo dish duty” -Move people I tried to reach out to off of sunday shifts -Pretended to have an autistic child, and claiming she would and could never “Use something like that word that starts with R” Now, you might be saying I should contact corporate. We have, 2-3 times, as well as emails from Tammy, another employee whom this happened to before me. Cody Young has refused to reply to any complaints, which you will see in the link above, ignoring this and sweeping it under the rug. Frisch’s does not care about us. They are willing to condone harassment, bullying, and discrimination, driving away several-year employees for standing up to this. It’s time that the people standing up to them aren’t people they can threaten jobs over. 551 W Plane St, Bethel, OH 45106

Let these people know that this is not okay. Don’t send death threats or vandalize the place, but let them know that this behavior is unwelcome.

[panickedpansexualprincess]

Husband: Frisch's is too much like IHOP for me. Me: ???? How is that???? Husband: They're mostly breakfast. Me: /dying of laughter/ Frisch's is known for its burgers, why do you think Big Boy carries a giant burger?

[fromthedeskofsigma]

How They Corralled the Big Boy

(Pictured: the iconic sign of the Frisch's Mainliner restaurant. The sign was dismantled this past Monday. Another sign on the other side of the restaurant, barely visible in the background of this photo, has been left to decay and probably crush someone's car when it finally collapses.)

In 2015, Frisch's, a local family restaurant chain that's been around since 1939, was bought out by an out-of-state private-equity firm. Late last year, after a solid nine years of the new ownership neglecting the chain's financial needs to pad their own pockets, locations started getting shut down en masse. Recently, that rot finally came for my local restaurant and long-time haunt, which happened to also be the chain's flagship for most of its existence: the Mainliner. I was devastated. I was angry. And when I get angry, I start looking for who to blame and how to fix it. In looking into the specifics of how it all went down, I ended up going down a bit of a rabbit hole. Buckle up--things are about to go a bit Pepe Silvia.

(Pictured: Things going a bit Pepe Silvia.) From 2015 up until this past November, Frisch's was owned by NRD Capital, a flock of private-equity vultures from Atlanta, GA. They're the ones getting all the flak for the chain's collapse, and rightly so; they were, after all, profiting off the chain while refusing to put enough back into it to keep staff employed or rent paid...wait. Rent? Yes, while Frisch's restaurants originally owned the land they were built on, 74 of the locations--including my beloved Mainliner--were sold to Florida real-estate holdings company NNN REIT a mere four months after NRD bought the chain out. NNN then proceeded to ratchet up the rent, which NRD refused to pay for; it all came to a head in just this past year, with NNN ordering the eviction of every single Frisch's restaurant that sat on what was now their property.

(Pictured: NNN as envisioned by Walt Disney, probably.) And I thought a lot of that was odd. After all, NRD didn't stand to gain anything from selling their own property and leasing it back. They couldn't even claim it was for short-term gain, either--they sold the land for less than a third of what they paid to buy the entire company, after all. I figured there had to be more to this story, so I started digging, looking for any commonality between NRD and NNN besides screwing over Frisch's and having inscrutable naming conventions. Everything I checked came up a dead end--no other investments in common, no shared executives, not even a shareholder with stake in both companies. They didn't seem to have any connection at all. I mean, it was a private-equity firm started by some Pakistani dude and a real-estate holding company started by Golden Corral.

(Pictured: a real estate mogul, apparently.)

And wouldn't you know it, it was Golden Corral, of all things, that ended up being the through-line for this entire story.

(Pictured: EEEEEEVIL! EEEEEEEVIL!)

NNN REIT started out as a holding company specifically for Golden Corral's restaurant properties. Coincidentally, NRD owns multiple Golden Corral franchises; naturally, the actual property those restaurants sit on is owned by NNN. Here's the crazy part: pretty much ALL of those properties are in the Greater Cincinnati Area, and NRD bought them in 2012 when they were sold by their original franchisee, allegedly due to lackluster profit margins but timed right in the middle of a major norovirus outbreak at a restaurant in Wyoming that led to accusations of widespread improper food handling. The original franchisee company was...Frisch's. I couldn't make this up if I tried.

(Pictured: One [1] Very Screwed Franchisee)

So, what does all this mean? Well, not a whole lot you could prove in court, I don't reckon, but to me it sounds like the company that started out as a subsidiary holding company of Golden Corral but became the effective owner of Golden Corral decided to turn a short-term loss into a long-term property grab by using a current franchisee to buy out a former one. Is that legal? Good question, but it sure the hell doesn't feel like it ought to be.

(Pictured: The exact wrong person to ask.)

I'm sure there's more to this story, and since I'm in a unique position to observe one of the properties this story's being built around, I'll keep an eye out for any further developments...assuming I don't get disappeared by a bunch of overweight Floridians. SOURCES: https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/business/2012/03/14/atlanta-company-buys-golden-corral/10712484007/https://www.nnnreit.com/about-us/

[anscathmarcach]

Frisch's Big Boy, a Cincinnati staple, has officially gone under. Every week there's been a new round of evictions for existing locations.

A shame... this is where me and my (spiritual) dad used to meet for lunch every week, and when I went back to town to visit when my friend went to hospice, we met there again for old time's sake.

More Frisch's slated for closure, company behind in rent for 65 locations

A court hearing Tuesday morning makes it official: two more area Frisch's must vacate the premises.

[imabeaver]

31 May 2019

OHH BOY