A sign at an IHOP in Alaska said the franchised restaurant was reducing hours because of staff shortages and blamed President Biden's COVID 19 relief programs.
Due to the fact that Biden gave way too much free money and nobody wants to work anymore, we have to reduce our hours during this week, according to a typed sign posted to the counter at an IHOP in Wasilla, Alaska. It states that the restaurant will be open Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on weekends from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.
The sign said that his family, although they enjoyed the pancake house, would no longer be visiting IHOP if the sign reflected its corporate policy. The user has since deleted his account.
I know we are just one small family, and we don't matter, but we can't eat at a place that condones this, the user wrote. Before the account was deleted, the post evoked a mixed bag of responses from some people who continued to criticize IHOP and called for its boycott, as others said they would visit the franchise more.
Hey IHOP, my family and I don't normally eat breakfast out but I will make it a point to support your business because you dare speak the truth at a time when it is silenced, one user replied to the post. Kudos was added to IHOP for being truthful and not freaking woke. One user observed that the snowflakes are boycotting IHOP, and several responses with a different perspective used the hashtag BoycottIHOP. Snowflake is a slang term used to describe an overly sensitive person who takes offense easily.
One critic wrote, Yeah. When I see a sign posted by a restaurant door, I am always prepared to walk away and turn around if it is this kind of entitled, anti-worker non-sense. I will not support a business that can't keep staff and blame it for phantom free money and other people's laziness. The money ran out months ago. Another user wrote that people are thinking of their priorities and working for min wage minus taxes during a pandemic. While you might think it is the lure you might think it is, people are rethinking their priorities. The job market is an oyster waiting to be plucked, according to 800 K dead. They are not quitting because of Biden. They are quitting because they are underpaying them, another response said, calling IHOP a MAGA chain restaurant. Don't eat IHOP's over-priced, unhealthy, fascist pancakes. A corporate spokeswoman told the New York Post that the typed mentioned at the Wasilla IHOP was immediately removed after we were informed. This was an unauthorized act by one individual and does not represent the views of IHOP or the local franchisee. This sign comes after Biden pushes for his Build Back Better plan, which would increase government spending even as inflation continues to soar.
The president also lauded the decline in the nation's unemployment rate in November, even though hiring was slightly undershot expectations with November marking the worst month for job creation this year.
Private businesses and other employers added just 210,000 new jobs in November, much less than the 550,000 gain forecast by Refinitiv economists and less than half of October's gain of 546,000, a troubling sign that hiring slowed even before the emergence of the new omicron coronaviruses variant.
Other aspects of the report painted a brighter outlook. The unemployment rate fell to 4.2% from 4.6% as more than 1.1 million Americans said they found jobs last month.