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Remember when there was a Brigham's on every street corner?
By Ron Newman on Wed, 11/11/2009 - 9:17am
Now there are none -- at least none in Boston. The High Street Brigham's in Boston's financial district abruptly closed yesterday, after the landlord evicted it for non-payment of rent. Brigham's also stole several months of health insurance deductions from their employees.
The accompanying comments suggest that the rest of the chain's 17 stores could soon follow suit, with stories of missed and bouncing paychecks and general looting by private-equity owner 'Deal Metrics'.
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Stealing health insurance deductions?
Good thing it wasn't a Newport Creamery that did that, or I'd have to say that's just plain Awful.
Or Friendly's
But they would never do something so fribbleous.
A Boston restaurant did the
A Boston restaurant did the same thing to my brother 30 years ago. He gave his insurance number at the hospital, and they told him he wasn't insured. The owner was having financial trouble, so he canceled their insurance and pocketed their deductions.
There's just something about the restaurant business - it attracts scoundrels.
I don't think it attracts
I don't think it attracts scoundrels, I think the stress of the business drives them to it - I know I've heard over and over that a huge percentage of restaurants fail within a year or so.
They're not getting into their business to steal from employees, the business (or lack thereof) conditions them to do it.
But hey, some of the employees were probably stealing their health insurance deductions worth of food each week, right? Kidding.
Looking for a Brigham's Fix?
There's still an iScream in West Roxbury, if you're looking for a Brigham's fix. You know. If.
-Foxed