Taco Bell started it, but Taco John’s ended it–with emotional intelligence.
…Taco John’s would be pledging a $40,000 donation (roughly $100 per store) to the nonprofit organization of Children of Restaurant Employees (CORE), which provides financial support to restaurant employees and their families when facing crises like serious illness, injury, or natural disaster.
Wait, what? They are supporting a charity to help people that are essentially their victims? If they paid their workers better such charities wouldn’t need to exist.
I know this isn’t the focus of the article, but I can’t believe what I’m reading! They are really donating to a charity for their own underpaid workers? Can someone clarify this for me if I’m wrong?
Yup that is the gist of it. Supermarkets have been doing it for years:
Donate blah to end child hunger at checkout?
Meanwhile, 23 percent of their employees are on food stamps.
Just like tipping culture in restaurants. Restaurants don’t want to pay their workers. So you do it. In fact, you’re a bad person if you don’t!
It’s good there are union movements going on in the states, bloodied though they are, unions are demonstrably the single most effective tool in securing fair pay.
Aaaaccording to the CEO of Taco John. Biased quote? Nah.
