• AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.world
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    Pretty sure it takes place when the restaurant is closed. They learn to do those things, they don’t actually do them for customers. It’s the whole “kids like to pretend” thing.

    I don’t support them because of their views and policies they fund, but I prefer reporting to be accurate.

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      Kids can pretend to work at Chick-Fil-A without paying to do it in a real location. This is pure advertising to children who could just use their imaginations if that’s what they want. And if you don’t think this sort of thing spreads to other kids, you don’t know about Space Camp.

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        I can appreciate both sides of this issue, but as a parent myself, I’m leaning toward mostly agreeing with you. It’s insane how much corporate indoctrination there is. Disney is the worst, but they’re all salivating for the chance to get their hooks into the brains of young kids, because they turn into lifelong customers. It’s the same reason why fast food chains have playgrounds out front. Even if you see an innocent playscape, the marketing is there.

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      I don’t know many people that would pay money for food prepared by 5-12 year old hands.

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        While in 4-H and Scouts we did fundraisers where kids that were around 8 - 16 years old made food and sold it. Mostly things like ham sandwiches and bake at home pizzas.

        They sold a lot better than the prepackaged fundraisers do now.

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          Sure, but how is a useless middleman entrepreneur supposed to get a cut if the scouts make and sell their own goods to fundraise.

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          Well, hygiene practices advance quite a lot between the ages of 5 and 8. Or, at least, “keeping your hands out of disgusting places” practices do.

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          I also got lemonade from a kid about that age at an event recently and I felt kind of weird about it because it seemed like he was doing it because his parents, who were selling merchandise at the table next to him, were making him do it. He didn’t seem like he was unhappy about it, but he didn’t exactly seem like he was thrilled either. It was very much a “yeah, it’s a job” attitude.

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        I know a lot, but the hands have to come from China, India, Bangladesh or similar nations

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      Pretty sure it takes place when the restaurant is closed

      are these rest usually closed 9 am to 12 pm?

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        I don’t have insider information, but there’s just no way labor laws are going to let such little kids do the actual restaurant work.

        Doing a quick search, I see this ABC news article on it.

        A representative for the company explained to ABC News that this is not a corporate program and assured the restaurant staff are still the ones making any food and the children are not doing any work of a hired team member.

        So they aren’t actually working. Again, I’m not a fan of the company, but let’s save our outrage for where it belongs.

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          Honestly, I agree… I am certain they are not actually working. It is likely a glorified tour or the kitchen (which they actually may not be able to do since I doubt a bunch of kids can just walk around a working commercial food assembly facility kitchen

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    Let’s roll back workers protections and legalize child labor like how “Governor” Hulckabee Sanders did in Arkansas

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    The bigot chicken restaurant that espouses conservative values wants children to pay to work there? Color me shocked.

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    5-12 year olds getting to see how one of their favorite nugget providers do what they do, and they get nuggets and ice cream while they see it.

    I think there’s a lot of really fucked up things with chic-fil-a specifically, but this just doesn’t seem like one for me. I can see kids loving this, though I wouldn’t send mine because i’m sure there’s mandatory group prayer or some other bullshit I wouldn’t be ok with.

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      There really is a thin line between letting kids find out about new experiences about things they find relatable and nationwide chains aiming propaganda about working in their restaurants at impressionable children.

      It would look a lot less sketchy if it was part of a larger, multi-industry learning experience that didn’t reward the kids with treats.

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      When I was a kid a summer daycare program I was in took us to a Dominoes and I got to make my own pizza. It was awesome.

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          Not for the Dominoes trip specifically, but they were paying for me to be there. I would assume that the local Dominoes got some kind of money out of it.

          I’m not saying that the Chik-fil-a thing is something that would have interested me as a kid or that I would pay to send a kid to it. For one thing, the focus on customer service stuff does make it a bit weirder to me. Just pointing out that I had a similar experience and that it was something I enjoyed.

          Some kids would probably love getting to see what happens in the kitchen, making something, and eating it. As long as it’s safe and age appropriate, and assuming they aren’t actually being used as labor, I don’t see how this is harmful.

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            I know one of those kids, early teen, has moved into cooking most of the family’s meals. I loved to cook as a kid, and still do. :-)

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    Da fuq? Wow, the lows corporate america will go to…

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      I learned yesterday that Waffle House pays some of its employees $3/hour.

      That low?

      For comparison, in Ontario, Canada minimum wage for tipped servers are:

      $16.55 per hour - General minimum wage; including liquor servers, bartenders and waiters.

      $15.60 per hour - Students (someone who is under 18 and works 28 hours/week or less*)

      But…FREEDOM! Am I right?

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          They aren’t working at the restaurant. They’re there after hours learning how it’s run and the food is made. No one is serving anyone.

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            You made me go back and reread, hours 22-24 (mon - wed) 9am-noon, their hours of operation are 630am-9pm. Maybe I missed where they say its after hours and they are not serving