Dunkin’ Donuts Employee Gets Fresh
How do you know your workers are underpaid? When they start turning tricks on the job.
One Dunkin’ Donuts employee in New Jersey decided to supplement her income by hawking more than just crullers and coffee. Melissa Redmond, 29, sold sexual favors to customers looking for some extra sugar.
Standing behind the counter, Redmond would slip prospective customers a special “menu” listing her services and prices. She would then sneak out to the parking lot and meet customers in their cars for up to 15 minutes at a time.
She was finally busted after cops received an anonymous tip and raced to Dunkin’ Donuts. Actually, they were probably there when they got the call, this being a donut shop and all.
An undercover officer posing as a customer made the arrest after he was approached by Redmond. “She was a night time employee, supposedly a very good one,'' detective Sgt. Kyle Schwarzmann was quoted as saying. She obviously made some customers very happy.
The report made no mention of the woman’s physical appearance, but the donut chain is often called Double D’s.
Franchise fight. Who doesn’t like a good cat fight between franchisees and their corporate parent?
The latest high-profile spat is happening over at Giordano’s Pizza, where a group of ten franchise owners are refusing to buy ingredients like pizza sauce and dough from the company’s approved in-house supplier.
Is that really such a big deal? Actually, in the franchising world, it is. Fast-food franchisors typically insist that all franchisee’s purchase ingredients from the same supplier to ensure the same taste and experience from one location to the next.
The Giordano’s franchisees are trying to save money by using other suppliers or by making the dough and sauce themselves. But now the bankruptcy trustee currently running the company wants to take them to court.
So do these franchisees stand a chance? Not really. These rebellions typically fail because franchise agreements tend to be iron-clad when it comes to the sourcing of raw materials.
In 1996, for instance, franchisees tried to sue Domino's Pizza Inc. for making them buy what they considered to be overpriced ingredients. The suit was quickly dismissed by a federal judge.
The real Hamburglar. Fast-food joints have always been an easy mark for criminals. But one brazen thief is on an absolute rampage. Since April, he’s believed to have hit 20 Burger King restaurants in Atlanta, as well as a handful of KFCs and Taco Bells. And he’ll probably keep going till he’s caught. The man has made off with up to $1,000 in each robbery. Burger King has offered a $1,000 reward for information leading the man’s capture. Given the number of times this guy has struck, shouldn’t that be a $20,000 reward?
