http://consultkeith.com/2009/11/16/why-i-wont-be-in-applebees-neighborhood/ Thoughts on the businesses of media and sports (and sometimes food). Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:10:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://consultkeith.com/2009/11/16/why-i-wont-be-in-applebees-neighborhood/#comment-648 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:15:31 +0000 http://consultkeith.com/?p=1761#comment-648 I used to work at an Applebee’s, and I think the problem is that by and large, it attracts two types of people to work there. There are students or temporarily unemployed people–people who have goals of getting out of the service industry, people who are there in the interim. The other type waited on you the other day: people that, for whatever reason, can basically be classified as losers. It’s rare for someone with a lot of restaurant experience to be working at a place like that–we tend to move on to less corporate, less highly regimented places. It’s basically Restaurant Work For Dummies there, and so dummies are often what they get.

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