15 November 2014 (03:19 UTC-07 Tango)/22 Muharram 1436/24 Aban 1393/23 Yi-Hai 4712
I love Arby’s new pro-meat advertisements, but it might be hiding the fact that Arby’s has gotten lean, and really mean, with its employees.
Just this year nearly a dozen Arby’s restaurants shutdown, without any notice.
Here’s an incomplete list of the 2014 Arby’s shutdowns, so far:
Arkansas: The Jonesboro fire marshall shutdown the Arby’s, saying several trusses supporting the roof were broken and that the only thing holding it together was the rubber membrane roofing material!
Colorado: A Glenwood Springs Arby’s shutdown. The 15 employees were given three days notice.
Kentucky: Reports that the Elizabethtown Arby’s shutdown, customers were confused thinking it was a temporary closure caused by a fire.
New Jersey: The 15 years old Glassboro Arby’s shutdown, 12 jobs lost.
North Carolina: There’s no beef in Elizabeth City as yet another Arby’s restaurant shuts down.
Ohio: A Salem Arby’s shutdown for a couple weeks of remodeling.
Pennsylvania: The following Arby’s shutdown without notice to employees; Wilkes-Barre Township, Scranton, Frackville, Kingston, Pine Grove and Pennsdale. The franchise owner went chapter 7 bankrupt.
South Carolina: A Lexington Arby’s was shutdown for several days after an SUV crashed through the front of the restaurant. In Walterboro, after 12 years the local Arby’s restaurant shutdown without notice. Local news reports say the restaurant has two signs posted on the building, one saying “Now Hiring!” and the other saying “Sorry we’re close.” (yep, they actually forgot to put the ‘d’ on the end of “close”). Local news reports said no restaurant official would talk to them to explain why the restaurant shutdown.
West Virginia: Two Arby’s shutdown without notice, one in Bluefield and one in Princeton. A Bluefield code enforcement officer was shocked saying “I don’t think many people had any forewarning about Arby’s. That’s a high traffic area. They didn’t seem to have any shortage of customers.” The franchise owner went chapter 7 bankrupt.
In 2011 Arby’s was sold off for $430-million. Between 2011 and 2014 at least one hundred Arby’s were shutdown.