Stupid and painful ways to run (and close) a business:
Two Hardee’s restaurants — one in west Davenport and one in Aledo, Ill. — were closed abruptly Monday, apparently as part of a corporate refranchising effort.According to employees at the Davenport location, 2202 Rockingham Road, there was little to no notice.
“I spoke to my manager and she said she was in there working around 10:30 when (managers from other area stores) came in and told her it was being closed,” said Steve Schutters, a cook and cashier. “They started throwing all the food away and were pulling things down and packing them up.”
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Schutters, a junior at Davenport West High School, said he is scrambling to find a new summer job now that Hardee’s has closed.
“I just got a new car and I have a $3,000 loan and I don’t know how I’m going to pay that off,” he said.
Among other employees suddenly severed was a senior citizen who lives near the store who came in each morning to make fresh biscuits, Schutters said.
“We were busy, I don’t see why they’d come in and say ‘you’re done. Clock out and leave,’” he said. “We had just hired people a week before that were supposed to start on Tuesday and they just came in and closed everything down.”
Employees deserve better than this, period.
On the plus side, now the building is an Arby's.