Five Guys’ chief executive officer, Jerry Murrell, said he gave a $1.5m bonus to employees of his US-based burger restaurant chain because “I didn’t want anybody shooting me” after the company recently “screwed … up” a buy-one-get-one-free promotion.
Murrell did not elaborate on the comment, which he gave to Fortune in an interview published on Wednesday – but it came a little more than a year after the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot dead on a midtown Manhattan street in what was widely considered a murderous rebuke of the US health insurance industry’s profit-driven practices.
Fortune’s conversation with Murrell revisited a two-for-one promotion that Five Guys organized in February to celebrate its 40th anniversary that proved to be much more popular than the chain expected. Five Guys’ app crashed as customers sought to take advantage of the promotion, and many overwhelmed chain locations discontinued the offer early, inviting backlash on social media.
Is she looking at him because she’s a greedy monster that wanted the money for himself, or because it’s not enough to compensate them for their labor?
Could actually be the 2nd. There are just over 1500 locations in the US. So that’s about, $1,000 per location. Divide that by maybe an average of 10 employees per location, that’s a grand total of like $100.
Edit, someone else found employee count, so it was actually like $50 per employee.
She’s probably angry that she can’t see that number in their bank account, because that’s all the 1% care about at the end of the day.
Doesn’t even matter that they won’t live to spend it all. The number is essential to their core being.
Greedy