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Re: Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty

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Post by kitchi »

cwmoore wrote: post #34
autoexec wrote: post #17

> There are two things Papa Johns doesn’t like to see There are three things. Papa Johns also hates to see well compensated employees. They've been successfully sued several times for wage theft, they were forced to stop their “no-poach” policies which prevented franchise owners from hiring workers at other Papa Johns restaurants in an effort to keep wages down, and they insisted that if they had to provide health in…

Lower wages mean more jobs though, right? BTW, why don’t we tax the bots for UBI?

I'm not sure how lower wages == more jobs.

The assumption with that statement is that there is a net amount of money to be dispensed, and either a few highly compensated employees get those jobs or many low wage employees.

But the very fact of wage theft indicates that the employers want to keep more money in their hands, and distribute less of it. So it really just amounts to small numbers of underpaid jobs.

Re: Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty

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Post by galleywest200 »

tailscaler2026 wrote: post #33
autoexec wrote: post #17

> There are two things Papa Johns doesn’t like to see There are three things. Papa Johns also hates to see well compensated employees. They've been successfully sued several times for wage theft, they were forced to stop their “no-poach” policies which prevented franchise owners from hiring workers at other Papa Johns restaurants in an effort to keep wages down, and they insisted that if they had to provide health in…

Their founder really doesn't like black people either. Do not support Papa Johns. Plenty of other choices for shit pizza. [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44803163

Unless it is the ones in Atlanta because I believe Shaq owns those.

Re: Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty

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Post by crypttales »

autoexec wrote: post #17

> There are two things Papa Johns doesn’t like to see There are three things. Papa Johns also hates to see well compensated employees. They've been successfully sued several times for wage theft, they were forced to stop their “no-poach” policies which prevented franchise owners from hiring workers at other Papa Johns restaurants in an effort to keep wages down, and they insisted that if they had to provide health in…

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Re: Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty

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Post by dzonga »

morkalork wrote: post #12

Instacart users should be upset about their data being packaged up and sold. Or maybe there should be half-decent privacy laws that protect them. Otherwise you just get this corporate-orwellianism. Anyways, I wonder if instacart can predict political affiliation. I bet their data scientists have at least tried.

it's under terms and conditions.

Instacart is now an ad-company. so as almost every company now.

ads are just too lucrative to pass up on if you sit on some rich data.

Re: Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty

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Post by alexpotato »

Atul Gawande, of Checkslist Manifesto [0] fame, has a great article about the Cheesecake Factory [1].

He mentions that that they have a model that can predict both guest numbers and revenue:

“We have forecasting models based on historical data—the trend of the past six weeks and also the trend of the previous year,” Gordon told me. “The predictability of the business has become astounding.” The company has even learned how to make adjustments for the weather or for scheduled events like playoff games that keep people at home."

And this was in 2012!

I highly recommend both the book and the article as both talk, in detail, about how to build systems even in very dynamic environments.

I can only imagine how accurate the models have gotten now.

0 - https://amzn.to/4y4Riot

1 - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/08/13/big-med

Re: Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty

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Post by cramer4next »

autoexec wrote: post #17

> There are two things Papa Johns doesn’t like to see There are three things. Papa Johns also hates to see well compensated employees. They've been successfully sued several times for wage theft, they were forced to stop their “no-poach” policies which prevented franchise owners from hiring workers at other Papa Johns restaurants in an effort to keep wages down, and they insisted that if they had to provide health in…

I love Papa Johns and we get their pizza atleast twice a week. Never once did we have have a bad pizza or bad service. All the people i've meet there while picking up are happy and very customer service orientated.

Whatever their formula is, it's working.

Re: Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty

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Post by charcircuit »

tailscaler2026 wrote: post #33
autoexec wrote: post #17

> There are two things Papa Johns doesn’t like to see There are three things. Papa Johns also hates to see well compensated employees. They've been successfully sued several times for wage theft, they were forced to stop their “no-poach” policies which prevented franchise owners from hiring workers at other Papa Johns restaurants in an effort to keep wages down, and they insisted that if they had to provide health in…

Their founder really doesn't like black people either. Do not support Papa Johns. Plenty of other choices for shit pizza. [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44803163

Your source does not back up your claim. The founder said he didn't use the slur.

Re: Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty

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Post by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF »

charcircuit wrote: post #48
tailscaler2026 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their founder really doesn't like black people either. Do not support Papa Johns. Plenty of other choices for shit pizza. [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44803163

Your source does not back up your claim. The founder said he didn't use the slur.

He doesn't. I think you misread this passage (it's the only thing that comes close):

> When discussing how he would distance himself from racist groups, Mr Schnatter said that Colonel Sanders, the founder of KFC, had never faced criticism for using the N-word, Forbes reported.

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