I work in a chain restaurant and my manager told me that our location has been underperforming in sales and order accuracy for the past year so corporate bought out the previous owners share of the place and have a new, younger owner coming in to take over.
The new owner scheduled a somewhat controversial mandatory paid meeting for every employee (35-40 people last I checked) and is providing breakfast for everyone. We normally open at 10am and do all of our prep stuff around the time the meeting is taking place which is where the controversy stems from. This meeting doesn’t seem like a big deal to me as I already work mornings around this time but a lot of my coworkers are super pissed off about having to go to this.
I’d like to get some honest opinions and outside perspectives from you guys though. Is this a ridiculous expectation from our employees or is it not that big of a deal?