I work part-time at a franchise-owned Dunkin' Donuts in my city. (For those unfamiliar, it's basically a fast-food coffee/pastry shop) and the managers here are overworked to the MAX.
I'm on my third week there and since then about 6 people quit, which basically cut our staff in half because we were already short-staffed. Luckily since I have a second job (and they don't want the trouble of putting me on full-time hours, nor do I) they're not trying to make me work overtime. But the managers are. One of my managers told me she's worked doubles and not had a day off since the 9th of this month.
They wouldn't admit it (I think most of them are conservatives) but I bet they'd be retaining workers if they fucking paid us more than $10 an hour and they don't have to make their managers suffer to pick up the slack. Not only that but maybe close the store two days a week so they can get a fucking break. We had to close our inside today because there was literally only four of us during the peak morning rush so I'm sure there'd be minimal loss of profit if we closed a couple days as well. Damn poor franchise owner am I right?
Granted, I haven't been there long enough to know if the managers are at fault for these resignations, but from what I've seen from my short time there the staff all get along rather well.