Almost every Chipolte is company-owned. They don’t really franchise (I think they did some early when they were owned by McDonalds but bought most of those back).

So i looked it up (Google and work avoidance at its best)....

My understanding is that the kids were paid their wages (and I presume overtime) but that the issue was that by lay they can’t work more than 9 hours a day or 48 hours a week (whereas an 18 year old could provided they adhere to minimum wage and overtime laws).

You assume incorrectly. The company can elect to contest the fine, and in this case, they are actually being fined 13,253 times so they could choose to contest each and every one of them. Just because the violation doesn’t come with jail time doesn’t waive the defendants right to due process.  Only the settlement is…

Fine.  Just agree to increasing funding to prosecutors and courtrooms to cover the 100x increase in costs.  Both are staffed based on the current structure, which sees a small fraction of cases making it to actual trials.  If you want to remove the incentive for someone to settle, then don’t expect any settlements. …

If you need the space of a king but can’t handle the stairs, two Twin-XLs together will work. You just need to buy a convertor (basically a belt that goes around the mattresses to keep them from separating and then a foam gap filler).

And as long as you remember tomatoes are fruit this works out.

Yes. My wife brought home the sample. My part of NJ (where I live) is LBB but we are surrounded by ABC bakers. The Lemon-UP (a lemon-flavored biscuit with a white glaze on the bottom) was really good. It had a nice lemon flavor and the cookie was crispy (like a biscuit cookie) which had a nice texture when eating.

Buy and donate them. Most people want to support the little girl selling them more than they want to have 6 boxes of $5 cookies (which are worth $2.50 each). There is a place on each order form where you can designate some/all of the boxes to be donated to local food pantries, “the troops” etc. So if you still want…

The issue with cash is what I call “the Red Cross Effect”. After 9/11 or Katrina the ARC got tens of millions of donations as that was the number flashed up on some of the more popular drives. The issue was that the American Red Cross wasn’t required to give all of that to put it to this single event. Now this may not…

This is a roadster for someone who wants the open air (no windows, convertible top) but also wanted the chauffeur to do the driving.

First, where are you getting $15K from? I know it varies and all, but just for comparison I plugged in an 8+ hour trip from Newark, NJ to either Rome or Milan Italy on United. I booked 3+ months out and stayed a week. Its $4100-$4300, not $15,000.

Except anyone who will pay for first class out of their own pocket (a small subset of the people in first class, since the vast majority are either upgrades or being paid by their employer) would never stand in a small closet for 4 hours for $2,000.

Do it at 3:30 - 5:30 AM.

First I am low key for not making people have to rely on tips to make a living. But if we are in a world where that is not the case.

I’m giving you the star for taking the time to create a specifically named burner for just this one comment.

Its not a living wage, but I presume you were then paid minimum wage and not tipped minimum wage (i.e. the far lower one). I know bussers are usually treated as part of tip pools and get the lower base, and the kitchen is not and doesn’t. Where I have seen it, barbacks were often treated like bussers not kitchen…

Actually that is exactly the level of autonomy that a Tesla provides. The difference is that a plane, due to air traffic control will often have 30-60 seconds warning when it needs a pilot’s attention and 0.3-0.6 seconds that you do on a car driving on a highway. Its why, as you stated, they don’t use it for…

Love that you posted this but didn’t actually read it.

Sure it is, because worth is subjective.  It is worth it to me, f**k no.  But to this guy, for his once in a lifetime bucket list thing, I guess it is.