Bennigans Closed Immediately!!

[AllieBaba]

Yea, ones with money. Can you imagine with the mortgage industry collapse how hard it would be to get a loan today? And when we are in a recession? And with bankruptsy laws tougher than ever? Competing against the big national chains. Not that it is impossible, but go for it dude.

And if it is an opportunists market, where are all the people starting their little business'?

That's why foreigners are buying up America. With the weak dollar, it's cheap for them.

No, foreigners are buying up America because libs force Americans to pay Americans so much that Americans can't expand their business.

People will start their little businesses, you watch. They will flood to fill the gap. It ALWAYS HAPPENS.

 

[random3434]

You're not sure how the loss of those jobs affects the places in which the restaurants were located?

For someone who professes an understanding of economics, not *getting* why it's a bad thing that places like Starbucks and Bennigans are closing seems a bit odd.

Right jillian.


Bennigan's is like a TGI Fridays, where I worked all through college and after for a bit. I made a lot of money in tips, and they worked around my college schedule. I know there are a million chain restaurants out there, but for those that are dependent on that money that is no longer there for them, it's going to suck for a bit, until they find another place to wait tables, cook, bartended, bus tables, etc.


I don't get where this ISN'T a big deal. To me, it's another "sign of the times", which sadly gets more depressing every day.

 

[sealybobo]

No, foreigners are buying up America because libs force Americans to pay Americans so much that Americans can't expand their business.

People will start their little businesses, you watch. They will flood to fill the gap. It ALWAYS HAPPENS.

Sure, once the Democrats get into office and undo all the shit the Republicans did.

You think this is a normal recession we are in? Oh no. The 2001 one was, but this one was caused by the GOP from 2000-2006. Tax breaks to the rich, bankrupting the treasury, outsourcing, weakening the dollar, deregulations, changing things like the bankruptsy laws so it is harder for us to do but easier for the rich to do, breaking the unions, enron loopholes, etc.

So you are anti a strong successful middle class. Nice.

 

[AllieBaba]

No, I'm pro-small business, anti-socialistic.
Some of those probably aren't real words, but you get my drift.

And yes, I think this is a normal recession. Obviously you haven't lived long enough to know what hardship really is. This is nothing. I make more every year, I'm able to provide for my two young kids now better than I was my two young kids 20 years ago, everyone I know is doing better.

You need to take a hike back to the 70s, boy.

 

[random3434]

isnt bennigans the restaurant that Butters loves in Southpark?

It was also "spoofed" along with TGI Fridays in the movie "Office Space" (a classic in it's own right btw...)

 

[DiamondDave]

It happened overnight and without warning!

Effective immediately all Bennigan's restaurants are closed for business.

The chain owns and operates around 800 Bennigan's across America.

Yet another major blow to the economy!

Jesus... your blindness never stops, does it?

I guess it was a MAJOR blow to the US economy when Roy Rogers Restaurants closed even more restaurants. Or when Montgomery Wards went tits up. Or when Hechingers disappeared.

Give me a break with you obvious shallow attempt to bash a Republican or Conservative administration/politician/view

 

[AllieBaba]

Being from the West I've never seen a Bennigans.
But the South Park reference all makes it so personal....

 

[AllieBaba]

Jesus... your blindness never stops, does it?

I guess it was a MAJOR blow to the US economy when Roy Rogers Restaurants closed even more restaurants. Or when Montgomery Wards went tits up. Or when Hechingers disappeared.

Give me a break with you obvious shallow attempt to bash a Republican or Conservative administration/politician/view

K Mart.

 

[random3434]

K Mart.

We still have K Mart's here in Indiana!


Now, if Target goes out of business I'm going to have to go wicked crazy on someone!



http://www.indiana.edu/~nso/local/shopping.shtml

 

[AllieBaba]

They aren't K-Marts like they used to be. They're like, "Super Ks" or something, weird scaled-down versions of themselves with eery elevator music and deserted aisles.

 

[Zoomie1980]

It happened overnight and without warning!

Effective immediately all Bennigan's restaurants are closed for business.

The chain owns and operates around 800 Bennigan's across America.

Yet another major blow to the economy!

Yea, lost a lot of high paying technical manufacturing and engineering jobs with that one....

 

[editec]

Really? When was the last time you dined at a Bennigan's?

Truthfully, I'm surprised they lasted this long.

AGreed.

Corporate resturants and watering holes that lacked charm and service.

Much like all corporate pizza joints, I might add.

 

[Paulie]

AGreed.

Corporate resturants and watering holes that lacked charm and service.

Much like all corporate pizza joints, I might add.

So true. Dominoes and Pizza Hut make a mockery of the pizza industry. I can't even look at their pizza, let alone eat it.

I have to give props to TGI Friday's wings though. That corporate sauce is pretty good, but the wings could use more meat. Otherwise, I keep it mom and pop when I dine out. Corporate food chains don't make their food with "love".

I forgot about Famous Dave's, though. That place is BANGIN.

 

[editec]

Yea, lost a lot of high paying technical manufacturing and engineering jobs with that one....

Try running a restuarant some time.

Rocket scientists would pull their hair out trying to make it all work.

The arrogance of the propeller heads who think they're carrying the weight of the economy on their shoulders just cracks me up.

I can't wait to see what happens to them when techology and economics eliminate their jobs just as they have done for so many other highly technical skills in other fields.

It's happening now, of course, but it's going to accelerate.

One hell of a lot of arrogant tecnopuppies libertarians are going to understand what some of us have been complaining about when their jobs go offshore or are eliminated by the technology they think they are the masters of.

I'll laugh at them, and then cry for them at the same time.

 

[DiamondDave]

The arrogance of the propeller heads who think they're carrying the weight of the economy on their shoulders just cracks me up.

Kind of like the arrogance of the college elitists?

 

[busara]

So true. Dominoes and Pizza Hut make a mockery of the pizza industry. I can't even look at their pizza, let alone eat it.

I have to give props to TGI Friday's wings though. That corporate sauce is pretty good, but the wings could use more meat. Otherwise, I keep it mom and pop when I dine out. Corporate food chains don't make their food with "love".

I forgot about Famous Dave's, though. That place is BANGIN.

i rarely eat at chain restaurants. the only place i occasionally go to is Red Robin, but that's mostly because they have Killians on tap. mmmmm, killians.

my usual eaterys are microbreweries and other local places, like this vietnamese place which is outstanding. also buy vegetables from an amish guy down the street from my place. i support my local peeps

 

[editec]

Kind of like the arrogance of the college elitists?

Amusing.

Did you know that the secgment of the population having the most difficulty finding jobs is recent college grads?

There are exceptions to that of course, for those with technical degees, but the majority of people with liberal arts, or humanities, social services, basically those who man the ranks of all other types of jobs it takes to run a viable society are scrambling to find work that pays a living starting wage.

And as I find more and more people with low level technical degrees also scrambling, all I can think is that the problems are getting worse for all of us regardless of what we studied.

It a "who you know", not a "what you know" world of employment increasingly.

Less and less decent jobs (when compared to the population overalll, I mean) while more and more of us are educating ourelves (and borrowing to do so, I might add) in the hopes of finding decent employment in our areas of study.

Why do you think there are so damned many lawyers?

We're not all going to be propellor heads.

Society needs some balance or the whole thing starts to fall apart.

You'll see, if you don't see yet, what I'm talking about.

 

[DiamondDave]

Society gets and society supports what it needs...

No need for the socialist or communist action of forcing society to get what the elites think they need...

Oooh... people who went to college studying Sanskrit or poetry or the social interaction between frogs and people aren't finding jobs... Let me try and shed a tear

But that does not stop the liberal college elitists and their arrogance in putting forth their liberal agenda as supreme because they know "best" because of their little infatuations with Marx and the communist manefesto

 

[busara]

Society gets and society supports what it needs...

No need for the socialist or communist action of forcing society to get what the elites think they need...

Oooh... people who went to college studying Sanskrit or poetry or the social interaction between frogs and people aren't finding jobs... Let me try and shed a tear

But that does not stop the liberal college elitists and their arrogance in putting forth their liberal agenda as supreme because they know "best" because of their little infatuations with Marx and the communist manefesto

youre an ignorant ass. i know people who graduated with education degrees who cant find work as a teacher because school's dont have the budget to hire anyone else. I know 2 social work majors who cant find work for the same reason. I know an accounting major who had to take a job that is little more than a bank teller. i know a math major who laid off from his job and had to join the army because you couldnt find anywhere to work. i know two auto mechanics who recently were laid off. it took one of them 5 months to find another job, and the other is still looking.
guess those are all useless degrees and skills too, huh?

 

[Zoomie1980]

Try running a restuarant some time.

Rocket scientists would pull their hair out trying to make it all work.

The arrogance of the propeller heads who think they're carrying the weight of the economy on their shoulders just cracks me up.

I can't wait to see what happens to them when techology and economics eliminate their jobs just as they have done for so many other highly technical skills in other fields.

It's happening now, of course, but it's going to accelerate.

One hell of a lot of arrogant tecnopuppies libertarians are going to understand what some of us have been complaining about when their jobs go offshore or are eliminated by the technology they think they are the masters of.

I'll laugh at them, and then cry for them at the same time.

Really? In my corporation all the mission critical application are hosted on enterprise java application servers. The people that have the skills to keep these servers running are among the most highly sought after professionals in the industry. And those who write the applications that run these critical business functions are equally sought after. They command 100k+ salaries. They aren't going to be replaced because they are the ones that make the technology happen. These are kinds of people that actually fuel this economy. Not the $10/hr clerk or waitress. Those people pay virtually no taxes nor buy much of anything but basics.