Comments on: Domino’s YouTube Employees Arrested

By: Aleksandar M. Velkoski

Aleksandar M. Velkoski — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:09:52 +0000

Sick. But, excellent response from Patrick. I appreciated his firm stance and clear position. I would still visit Dominos for a lunch or dinner snack.

By: Gus Salvetti

Gus Salvetti — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:12:24 +0000

A textbook response by Patrick Doyle. It really does go to show why it's important for companies to have a social media strategy and how to get in front of a potential public relations nightmare. Gus Franchise Solutions

By: Carol Cross

Carol Cross — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:34:22 +0000

We seem to have a culture that produces both bad employers and bad employees and this may be a product of secularism where there is “no policeman within” and self control and the golden rule cannot be successfully legislated.

If, as some attorneys and writers, like Richard Solonmon, have indicated, the “church” was the first franchisor, at least they were trying to franchise some good rules under which societies would and could live with each other.

How can we protect ourselves against the big terrorists and the little terrorists who live among us when there is no policeman within the hearts and minds of so many who rationalize their acts out of ignorance, or malice, or justice?

Rich! Have you collected your judgment from Quiznos?

Carol

By: Sean Kelly

Sean Kelly — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:40:20 +0000

Didn’t you have anything like that for employees to sign when you were part of Quiznos?

I would assume that there’s a non-disclosure agreement that they’d sign forbidding them from disclosing procedures, recipes, etc. as well as nondisparagement.

If anyone has a sample document, I’ll post it.

That said, every fast food franchisor should have a crisis management plan ready to help franchisees who get victimized like this. This is nothing new. Even before YouTube brought us Burger King Sink baths and Domi-nose Cheese, people were dropping human thumbs in Wendy’s chili and telling Urban Legends of Kentucky Fried Rats (not true).

No one should be taken by surprise… it’s a matter of WHEN.

By: Rich Piotrowski

Rich Piotrowski — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:26:13 +0000

Since seeing this story the other day, I’ve been meaning to ask some of the lawyers types out there… what would happen if a franchisee, or in my case an independent business, as part of the employment process, had new employees sign an document outlining that they are not under any circumstances permitted to film, record, any video or audio using any kinds of film or electronic method, anything within the business property? We all know there has to be such documents out there for sensitive types of jobs where trade secrets or government classified stuff exists. So could we use the same thing in our type of place?

Even if it wasn’t something that would legally hold up, maybe it could just be written to scare little shitheads like these two.