Day one of grand opening of 5 Guys Hamburger in Huntsville, Alabama.

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FCBlitz
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I go in on grand opening day to check things out and it immediately jumps out at me that every single worker looked like they just got of the bluebird bus from Guatemala. They spoke English to get the point across. They spoke Spanish between each other.

For two weeks they had help wanted sighs. There wasn't a single black, white or brown teenager from high school working.

So all of these illegal folks. Do they get placed en mass by a company? There is no was that 5 guys location had 2 weeks of job interviews and hired every Guatemalan in Huntsville.

We will never win this battle of protecting the border and controlling who enter the USA.
Clob94
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Five guys sucks.

Whataburger or GTFO.

Teenagers are lazy.
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FCBlitz said:

I go in on grand opening day to check things out and it immediately jumps out at me that every single worker looked like they just got of the bluebird bus from Guatemala. They spoke English to get the point across. They spoke Spanish between each other.

For two weeks they had help wanted sighs. There wasn't a single black, white or brown teenager from high school working.

So all of these illegal folks. Do they get placed en mass by a company? There is no was that 5 guys location had 2 weeks of job interviews and hired every Guatemalan in Huntsville.

We will never win this battle of protecting the border and controlling who enter the USA.
You are assuming a whole heck of a lot in this post.
Hammerly High Dive Crips
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I love living in Cypress. Since moving from the city, I have noticed a night and day difference in quality of service at local establishments and fast food places. It's largely high school kids of all ethnicities and socioeconomic levels who are super polite and want to do a good job and have other career aspirations aside from flipping burgers and supplementing their welfare stipends for life. The Whatabuger near my house is run like a dadgum Chick Fil A.
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Tanya 93
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FCBlitz said:

I go in on grand opening day to check things out and it immediately jumps out at me that every single worker looked like they just got of the bluebird bus from Guatemala. They spoke English to get the point across. They spoke Spanish between each other.

For two weeks they had help wanted sighs. There wasn't a single black, white or brown teenager from high school working.

So all of these illegal folks. Do they get placed en mass by a company? There is no was that 5 guys location had 2 weeks of job interviews and hired every Guatemalan in Huntsville.

We will never win this battle of protecting the border and controlling who enter the USA.


Why do you think teenagers applied?

Seems like the older siblings of my son's friends think they are above fast food.
Some will deign to be servers in sit down restaurants but they mostly work in small shops, walking dogs, and grocery stores
Stat Monitor Repairman
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I went in there the other day and they gettin' high as a cats back. They proud of them burgers.

They good and I eat there form time to time, but they getting high.
Roland Schitt
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Stat Monitor Repairman said:

I went in there the other day and they gettin' high as a cats back. They proud of them burgers.

They good and I eat there form time to time, but they getting high.
Higher than Giraffe p*ssy LOL
SKY1
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Hamburguesa por favor con queso..
SpreadsheetAg
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I wouldn't want my daughters working fast food - they'd be surrounded by older men and women who are ... less civilized. And their customers would be even less so. I'd worry about their safety even in day hours, and risks from their coworkers.

I wouldn't mind them working a job at a small boutique, grocery store, ice cream shop, etc.

In HS I worked my way up from sacker to stocker to cashier to produce / meat market at the local grocery in cypress (late 90s) and would often close up the store at 11p / midnight. We had a few weirdos every now and again but nothing like there is today.
GAC06
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Chick fil a consistently seems to have clean cut young people working there. In n Out too
BTHOB-98
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Was Mark May there?
Esteban du Plantier
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H2B visa?
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jonb02
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SB 43rd STREET OG said:

I love living in Cypress. Since moving from the city, I have noticed a night and day difference in quality of service at local establishments and fast food places. It's largely high school kids of all ethnicities and socioeconomic levels who are super polite and want to do a good job and have other career aspirations aside from flipping burgers and supplementing their welfare stipends for life. The Whatabuger near my house is run like a dadgum Chick Fil A.
WhatAburger leveled up near my house too
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BTHOB-98 said:

Was Mark May there?

Heard he only frequents the Pitt location.
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FCBlitz said:

I go in on grand opening day to check things out and it immediately jumps out at me that every single worker looked like they just got of the bluebird bus from Guatemala. They spoke English to get the point across. They spoke Spanish between each other.

For two weeks they had help wanted sighs. There wasn't a single black, white or brown teenager from high school working.

So all of these illegal folks. Do they get placed en mass by a company? There is no was that 5 guys location had 2 weeks of job interviews and hired every Guatemalan in Huntsville.

We will never win this battle of protecting the border and controlling who enter the USA.


I'm guessing you never worked in any sort of food establishment. It's where I learned my Spanish curse words and threats. This isn't new.
Urban Ag
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Clob94 said:

Five guys sucks.

Whataburger or GTFO.

Teenagers are lazy.
My 16 year old started working at Home Depot a couple weeks ago. My 13 year old works home and ranch projects for me and busts his ass out in the heat. They do after getting out the door every morning for summer sports cams by 7:15 AM on summer break. Not all teens are lazy, in fact, I've definitely seen an upswing in privileged teens working as of late. May be gas prices but my kids both want a job.

Whataburger is still good I agree.

Five Guys doesn't suck, it's just over priced. The wife and I spent a week in France and hit the Five Guys at Charles de Gaulle before catching the train back to London and it was probably the best burgers we had in our lives, for obvious reasons

aggrad02
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Urban Ag said:

Clob94 said:

Five guys sucks.

Whataburger or GTFO.

Teenagers are lazy.
My 16 year old started working at Home Depot a couple weeks ago. My 13 year old works home and ranch projects for me and busts his ass out in the heat. They do after getting out the door every morning for summer sports cams by 7:15 AM on summer break. Not all teens are lazy, in fact, I've definitely seen an upswing in privileged teens working as of late. May be gas prices but my kids both want a job.

Whataburger is still good I agree.

Five Guys doesn't suck, it's just over priced. The wife and I spent a week in France and hit the Five Guys at Charles de Gaulle before catching the train back to London and it was probably the best burgers we had in our lives, for obvious reasons




Same here. I have three daughters 18-18-16 and all three work very hard, 2 servers and a hostess. Usually 20-30 hours a week plus full time school. And right now they are making between 20-25/hr when you include their tips.

Also you might not see many hard working intelligent teens in fast food because frankly they can get better jobs right now.
My Name Is Judge
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Can we keep the Guatemalans that are willing to work & send the lazy American welfare rats to Guatemala?
ProgN
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SpreadsheetAg said:

I wouldn't want my daughters working fast food - they'd be surrounded by older men and women who are ... less civilized. And their customers would be even less so. I'd worry about their safety even in day hours, and risks from their coworkers.

I wouldn't mind them working a job at a small boutique, grocery store, ice cream shop, etc.

In HS I worked my way up from sacker to stocker to cashier to produce / meat market at the local grocery in cypress (late 90s) and would often close up the store at 11p / midnight. We had a few weirdos every now and again but nothing like there is today.
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ProgN said:

SpreadsheetAg said:

I wouldn't want my daughters working fast food - they'd be surrounded by older men and women who are ... less civilized. And their customers would be even less so. I'd worry about their safety even in day hours, and risks from their coworkers.

I wouldn't mind them working a job at a small boutique, grocery store, ice cream shop, etc.

In HS I worked my way up from sacker to stocker to cashier to produce / meat market at the local grocery in cypress (late 90s) and would often close up the store at 11p / midnight. We had a few weirdos every now and again but nothing like there is today.

It's missing a line. "A year or two, I make assistant manager, and that's when the big bucks start rolling in."
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I can't believe 5 Guys has enough funds to even open another "restaurant".

Hands down the worst food I've ever had by such a wide margin that I get a vomit reflex just seeing the sign.
The Fall Guy
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OP must have either never worked in a restaurant or never opened his eyes while in a restaurant. Hispanics are the main cooks at ANY restaurant in America from the East Coast to the West Coast. From the cheap to the most expensive. If you think an Italian person is making your Italian food in New York you are wrong. If the food is good and quality is good who cares.

They are working. Not sitting on their butts at home in smoking weed in their parent's basement.

Also OP assumed all of them as illegal. Did you ask everyone of them personally?
rgag12
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Honestly I don't know how you managed to recover from the shock that you are paying $20+ for a fast food burger and fries to notice the workers
B-1 83
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Sounds like businesses in NY around the beginning of the 20th century, but Italian was being spoken. At least some areas had the sense to keep them out with "No Italians and No Catholics" signs. Don't get me started on the Irish.

OP - how do you know those workers were "illegal"?
Being in TexAgs jail changes a man……..no, not really
Clob94
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Urban Ag said:

Clob94 said:

Five guys sucks.

Whataburger or GTFO.

Teenagers are lazy.
My 16 year old started working at Home Depot a couple weeks ago. My 13 year old works home and ranch projects for me and busts his ass out in the heat. They do after getting out the door every morning for summer sports cams by 7:15 AM on summer break. Not all teens are lazy, in fact, I've definitely seen an upswing in privileged teens working as of late. May be gas prices but my kids both want a job.

Whataburger is still good I agree.

Five Guys doesn't suck, it's just over priced. The wife and I spent a week in France and hit the Five Guys at Charles de Gaulle before catching the train back to London and it was probably the best burgers we had in our lives, for obvious reasons


1. Look who their father is. Lazy is a mindset-- not a physical attribute. You won't ALLOW them to be lazy. Right? Parenting--

2. Yes, whataburger is still good-- for now.

3. 5 guys is over priced.

4. Had a BurgerKing in Edinburgh Scotland after 2 weeks of Scots "food". All things are relative.

5. You took the Chunnel train. It happened so fast, I missed the underground part while in the bar car getting beers and flirting with the Belgian bar tender chick.
Atreides Ornithopter
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The 5 guys in Huntsville Alabama on Highway 72 has been open for years.
Daddy
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20$ for burger fries soda

Sorry
No Spin Ag
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My Name Is Judge said:

Can we keep the Guatemalans that are willing & send the lazy American welfare rats to Guatemala?


So much this. We've got way too many Americans, of all races, that keep from dying because of the government. If we replaced them with immigrants with real work ethics, our economy would boom like it hasn't in generations, AND we'd be done with the lazy Americans who have generations living off of welfare.
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Saw a burger King in Oslo, after a week of nord food...lol, it was glorious.
ProgN
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Clob94 said:



5. You took the Chunnel train. It happened so fast, I missed the underground part while in the bar car getting beers and flirting with the Belgian bar tender chick.




Sir, we have rules we all must follow.
Unforgiven94
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My 16 year old son started working at the local 5 Guys two weeks ago. Most of the staff are 18-25 years old of all ethnicities. No illegals as far as he can tell. But it is clear they are desperate for labor. He worked 41 hours his first full week.
BMX Bandit
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He Guatemalan?
Aggie4Life02
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I like 5 Guys but they are way overpriced for what you get.
JamesPShelley
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Daddy said:

20$ for burger fries soda

Sorry
That's crazy. Sounds like another minimum wage hike is in order. That'll fix everything.
Quito
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I live in Overland Park, KS and all of the Dairy Wueens here are staffed by Indians (country, not the casino owners).

There's 3 Dairy Queen's we go to and all are staffed 100% by Indians.
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