‘Personality Hires,’ the Fast-Food Chain 'Value Menu' War & Trouble for Hooters

ICYMI: Hour Three of ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Guest Host Chris Merrill filling in with thoughts on what it takes to be a ‘personality hire,’ AND the fight for fast-food chains to regain and retain customers with new 'value menus'…PLUS – Scantily clad waitress restaurant chain ‘Hooters’ has been forced to close several locations due to poor performance - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app

Episode Transcript

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You're listening to Later with Moe Kellyon Demand from KFI AM six forty Pleasure
being with you as only Oh whatdo we? Oh? I know this?
Oh my goodness, boy? Doyou want to know how to get
a great job? Have I gotan idea for you? You want to

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get that great high paying job.We all want to get that great high
paying job. Makes perfect sense.Who wouldn't want that great, high paying
job. What's the best way toget that great high paying job. Is
it to go to college and bethe best in your field? Yeah,
I mean that's one way to dothat. But there's a new way.
Love this. It's called the personalityhired. Oh, it's pay a chance.

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What a great idea. There usedto be in years past a very
select group of people that would gethired for jobs in which they were where
to qualify cause they brought something elseto their table. Oftentimes it was something
like they were really good on thecompany softball team and the CEO really wanted

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to win the corporate championship this year. Right, that's kind of a cliche
thing. I think I saw itto sit commenty games. But there were
always these jobs where as long asyou brought something else to the table.
You didn't necessarily have to be goodat the job itself. There's a new
angle on this because a number ofcompanies I've switched to a hybrid what do

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they call that, a hybrid formator hybrid work model? I guess hybrid
scheduling. So you're in the office, you're out of the office. You're
there for two or three days aweek, you're out of the office.
Sometimes everybody is there for the sametime. Sometimes you might have half a
group that's there on Mondays and Tuesdays, the other half on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

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You know, something like that.Okay, so what's happening against Companies
are finding out they're having difficulty buildingcohesion. They're desperate for a good workplace
energy. They say that camaraderie ishard to build on hybrid schedules, and
so they are now prizing upbeat employeeswhose energy is infectious. We all work

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with that person, right, thatis eternally bubbly, and at first you
hate them because get out of herewith your happy and then you go,
you know what, it's not sobad they're around. It's much better than
having that Debbie downer all the time. Then you start going I kind of
like it. When that person's here, I feel a little bit better.
I don't know, if you workwith that person, maybe you are that
person. That's something I've tried tobe, not always successful, but I

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try to be that person. Sometimesit's a line. Sometimes I go to
work and I hate being there,but I have to try to tell everybody
else how excited I am to bethere, because maybe I'll just be able
to make myself feel better. It'sall you make it psychological thing that I
do so right, We'll get this. Suppose that you're gonna go work for
a hedge fund, but you're notvery good at math, Probably not a

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great person to have a hedge fund. But what if you're a really fun
person? What they're fighting? Accordingto the Wallsbury Journalists, there are people
who are actually advertising themselves as personalityhires. According to a Project matters,
you're a upstate New York. Personalityhires are annoying. They always have time
to hang out the hallway, butwhen do they actually sit down and work.

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Some people, some bosses like thewarm and fuzzies. They say the
mood of work is generally sour,but if we bring somebody else in that's
going to lift the mood. Well, listen, create a workplace culture,
and it's worth it to pay somebodyto just basically be your work place culture
booster. Workers don't always like it, though. According to some people,

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if you are a personality higher,there's a feeling that your expectation is not
necessarily to do actual work. It'sjust to be happy and try to make
those around you happy, even thoughthat's not in your job description. It
would be one thing if you gothired on as an HR person and your

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job was to actually lift the spiritsin the office. But in this case,
you'll be put on a project.You'll be put on a team.
You're gonna be that person in highschool when we all got the projects.
Remember this, get a project.Okay, everybody at science class, we're
gonna break up into groups and we'regonna work on a group project. Got
a hit group projects because the groupprojects, as you know, always came

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down to one or two people inthe group doing all the work and everybody
else taking credit for who's the worst. The other thing that would happen to
is this is that the work wouldbe divvied up. Everybody would do their
their fair share, but the peoplethat were doing certain portions of the group
project would start to struggle and thenfeel like they were doing more than everybody

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el else in the group, evenif they weren't. So I'll give you
an example. I had a groupproject one time, social study sixth grade.
I'll never forget this. Social studiessixth grade. Got put into a
group project and some of us weresupposed to write the paper. Some of
us were supposed to research it andoffer the notes. Right, so you
had to have the teacher graded everybodyat this step, So your notes had

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to be complete. You get agrade on that. You had to have
a paper, you get graded onthat, and then there was a presentation
and the group would be great outof the presentation. Now, wouldn't it
make sense to have a guy likeme, who now has a career as
a public speaker be the guy givingthe presentation? When that makes sense?
Too obvious? Okay, but it'ssixth grade. Yeah, So when you

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are the outgoing person who loves tobe on stage in sixth grade, you're
what we call a loser. Sowho got chosen to give the speech?
In my sixth grade autography class.We were doing the history of US flags.
Okay, they chose the football player, so I was in band.

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I was. I did theater.I was total loser, although I also
looked at everybody else that was intheater and I was like, you guys
loose, but I'm cool. Iwasn't. I just didn't really slide it
very well. Any Oh, Bandplus theater is like, right there,
are you kidding? Yeah? Andit's it's a shock that that I remained
a virgin until I was twenty four. And if you're in band plus theater,

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I mean, who do you evenget to beat you up? Thank
you? We all had struggles.Yeah, that's that's the challenges we all
faced. So here we are sixthgrade. They give it to Jason.
Jason was on the football team,but he was cool. He was the
popular kid, so they said he'llgive the presentation. Let me tell you
what Jason could not do. Standin front of the class and speak.

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It was, to this day,the most awful presentation I have ever seen.
It literally sticks out in my mind. I can tell you. It
was mister Elliott's sixth grade Geography orSocial Studies class, nineteen ninety and Jason
was giving the speech on the historyof the US flag stands out as the
worst speech I've ever heard in mylife, and I listen to politicians speak

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for a living. Now, Iwas part of the research crew. I
didn't have any problem doing the research. I did the research, I did
the paper, I gave that overthe people who wrote the essay, and
then Jason gave the presentation. Jasondidn't have to do any of the research.
Jason didn't have to write the notes. Jason didn't have to do the
essay. Jason just had to readwhat we developed for him. He was

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the public speaker. Jason to thisday thinks he worked harder than everybody else
in that group. He didn't,but Jason felt like his job was harder
because it was harder for him.So sometimes we get these group projects and
we go other people are working I'mworking harder than other people. Now,
whether you're actually contributing more to theproject or not, that's not even necessarily

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for the people who are in thegroup to decide. Sometimes ask to be
the person on the outside that goesThat was a real struggle for like,
I think Jason got a b.It was the worst thing I've ever seen.
But he got to be on hisportion of the project because it was
extra hard for him, and theteacher recognized that that standing up in front
of the class was terrifying. Sowhen you have companies that are hiring these

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personality hires and they're not necessarily verygood at the project part of what they're
supposed to be working on, theother people that are working on the project
say, we're working harder than thatpersonality hrd. You brought them on because
they had a nice smile and theywere supposed to make us all feel better,
but now we feel more stressed.That's what they say, is that

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the reality it still maybe beneficial forthe company to have that bubbly person in
that group, because maybe that groupis otherwise a real stick in the butte
that nobody wants to be around,and maybe having a nice person there motivated
them to actually get work done justso they could complain about the happy person
just the same. Beware, youmay get a new coworker who is nice

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to be around, and that mightmean you hate your job even more.
Sorry. All right, food,glorious food, please, sir, may
I have some more? Next?You're listening too Later with Moe Kelly on
Demand from KFI Am sixty. Ilove junk food. I love him.

(09:35):
My wife put me on a dyet. She said, you're too fat,
and she said, we are goingon a dying now. Listen. She's
not wrong. I'm too fat,but I think my wife was thinking she
wanted to lose fifteen or twenty pounds, and so the best way to do
that is to put your husband ona die so there's no junk food in
the house, and that's what wedid. So I've been on this diet

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since March Babes the end of February, and it's gone really well. I've
lost a lot of weight, butI have no junk fruit, so I've
been eating vegetables, salads, lotsof protein, no fats, no carbs.
Basically, I was disgusting my lifeas hell. It's horrible. And

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my son goes, oh, I'mgonna have a Caesadia and I am like,
oh, are you? Because Ihate you right now and I'm canceling
Christmas. He's twenty five, itdoesn't care, but I'm still canceling Christmas.
So this is what's winning. Fastfood prices have actually made it a
little bit easier for me. Iam a sucker for a driver. I

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love This is going to sound disgusting. I love fast food, deep fried
signs. I love the Arbi's Callipaniopoppers. I love the mazzarella sticks.
I love onion rings, Culver's cheesecurds, goolish, I love it.
I love it so well. Listen, there's the reason I had to go

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on a diet. It's because ofthis stuff. French dips from Arby's.
Oh God, the Army's French tipis so good. And it's just trash.
It's not like it's good ingredients.It's just together. It's amazing to
me because it's just that and grease, and I want some so bad.
And then what they do is theybutter the grease and they toast it,
and it's amazing. I love it. I've never had any of these things

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that you're talking about. Where where'sthe place that is the poppers? Arby
says, the Hall of Penion Poppers. Oh I gotta have that. Yeah,
Oh it's good. Also side noteshout out to Tim Conway Junior heard
his joke earlier about and I laughed. I was. I was listening on
the line foosh. I don't knowif you heard me laughing about it was
Tory Spelling was talking about her boobjob and she said she got it in

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a rather strange place, and TimSooner goes Arby's and then she continued playing
the cut and I didn't see itcoming. I was like, God,
that was so Tim Conway Junior,so funny. Oh it was good anyway.
I love that stuff. But nowprices have gotten really hot, and
so it got to my wife andI would go get fast food. Now
my wife is she's like, Iwant a kid's meal, but I want

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a side, and I want alarge shake. Okay, so's she's cool
with that. Me, I go, I want the number name, the
number number one, five nine,whatever it is, supersized or biggie sized
or fat size, whatever it is, and throw in one of these deep
fried sides to go with them.So we pull up and they go,
okay, well, your total isgoing to be twenty nine dollars. Twenty

(12:33):
nine dollars for a drive food fortwo people, and my wife looks at
me. She says, you're notallowed to get sides anymore, and we'll
give up the sandwich. Before Igive up the sides. I love those
sandwiches, right, Yeah, she'sfine with these, the biggie sizing everything,

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but she's like, and you're notgetting curly fries next time, and
you're not going this then yeah,so that's the problem. But now,
because we've all been complaining about thecost of fast food, by the way,
it did help going on the diet. The cost of food, the
cost of going out to eat fastfood, specifically actually going on the diet
easier. It was like, allright, well, you know what,
we're going to save money. Buyingfresh food used to be the more expensive

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thing. Now it's way cheaper toget fresh food than it is to go
through a drive through because they jackthe prices up so much these drive throughs.
So if McDonald's has started a valuemenu, war used to be you'd
have a dollar menu and you couldget a McChicken sandwich or a mcdouble or
something. It was a dollar.I think those sandwiches are now about four
bucks of peaks at least three,which is crazy because it's not like we're

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talking about I remember when I wasa kid. We're not talking about nineteen
eighty four prices. These are twentyseventeen prices we're discussing here. It's we're
not going that far back in time. So McDonald's decided they're going to bring
back an actual value menu. They'redoing a five dollars combo meal, which,
by the way, Taco bellue tohave the best five dollars box and
it was like a taco, abeefy bean and cheese burrita. You know,

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it was like the the Burrito Supremeor whatever, or a new Lufa
or Gordido. Yeah. Yeah,and then you got I think whatever those
the cinnamon twisty things are that theyhave, I forget what they call him.
Anyway, there were like four itemsin that thing for five bucks.
Now. I think that's about ninedollars for that box. It's crazy.
So McDonald's has got this combo meal, the McChicken, the mcdouble or it's

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a McChicken, a mcdoubell or afour piece chicken nugget, small fries and
a small drink for five dollars.That used to be the contents of a
happy small fries, small drink,four piece nugget. Anyway, that's five
dollars now. And they claim thatthey're only making five to twenty five cents
per value meal that they're selling.I don't believe them, but that's what

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they're saying. Right. Wendy's hasgot a three dollars limited time breakfast combo
me and Burger King has got aplan that is going to bring back the
five dollars your weight meme. Imean, I love that. Earlier this
week, a big Mac with mediumprize and a medium drink was eleven seventy
nine before tags. Oh, comeon at a McDonald's and Santa Anna.

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Yeah, if you use the mobileapp, here's the here's what they're doing.
This is the trick. If youuse the mobile app for pickup at
the same location, it was sixdollars and fifty cents before times, so
you saved almost fifty percent just forusing the app. For using the app.
This is yes, absolutely, they'reabsolutely I agree with you. They're

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trying to get everybody pushed in theapp because then they get your data and
they can sell your dad, whichalso conspiracy theory. Here go on,
love present of the time that yougo to McDonald's, which is why I
haven't downloaded the app, there'll bea little paper sign next to it that
says app is not working today,Like half the time. It's always like,
oh, we can't use it today. You can't take coupons. So

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I'm like, then, what's thepoint of downloading it? What is the
point? Yeah, and you knowwhat, you know what the problem is
cheese. They hired the ice creammachine people to develop their app. So
anyway, there's supposed to be avalue menu wore now at these fast food
places because they're losing money. Becausewe all keep complaining about it, and

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they say, well, we're onlymaking a nickel. I don't buy it.
They said they're only making a nickel. They say they're making a nickel
on the five dollars memes, I'mpaying full on restaurant prices just for meat
and my two kids going. Theycannot be making a nickel. One hundred
percent agree with you, one hundredpercent agree with you. It's cheaper right

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now, like twelve dollars for abig mac, medium fry and and a
medium coke. You can go toChili's or Applebee's or something and get there.
And I think it used to betwo for twenty dollars and I think
it's like two for thirty whatever.Still you're talking saying ballpark for more food.
Granted, it's still like chain restaurantfood. It's not like you're going
to a Michelin star place. Butit's not like you're If you're comparing to

(17:02):
McDonald's, it's not like you're toofar off base here. I'd rather have
the pasta and breadsticks or something atApplebee's than the McDonald's French Rise in Big
Mac can pay the same amount.Yeah, yeah, but Apple's doesn't have
to drive people. I get carsickto go, but they don't have to
drive. And if I get carsidto go, you know what I have
to do? Gonta download the app. There's your conspiracy. Boosh, there's

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your conspiracy. In a minute,there is one place where it's gonna be
a little bit tougher to get themost delicious wings you've ever had. And
really the only reason to go thereis for the wings. I will tell
you where we might lose this Americaninstitution. Next, Chris Marriland from o
Kelly KFI AM six Sporting We're liveeverywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You're listening

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too. Later with Moe Kelly ondemand from KFI AM six forty bad news.
Devastating American institution facing some difficult times. We hope this is not the
beginning of the end. Hooters isthe latest casual dining chain to announce it
is closing a select number of locationsnationwide. This is from the more Important

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News section from KTLA dot com.According to Hooter's statement, like many restaurants
under pressure from the current market conditions, Hooters has made the difficult decision to
close the select number of underperforming storms. Ensuring the well being of our staff
is our priority in these rare instances. Okay, always concerned about the wellbeing

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of your staff, who you putin tight shirts and shorts and parade around
like meat puppets. That's good.With new Hooters restaurants opening domestically and internationally,
new Hooters frozen products launching at grocerystores, and the Hooter's footprint expanding
into new markets with both company andfranchise locations, this brand of forty one

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years means highly resilient and relevant.We look forward to continuing to serve our
guests at home, on the go, and at our restaurants here in the
US and around the globe. They'venot disclosed how many locations are which ones
are closing. Chances are if youwork at a Hooter's and nobody's coming in
to see you, you're gonna loseyour job. Look the lazy taken,

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it's the easy take on this isfor me to just go no Hooters.
Thanks not Joe Biden. Right,I mean that would be fun, right,
that would be fun. But thetruth is this, Hooters is up
against a feeling. Now, alot of dudes are able to overcome our

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feelings because we have what's known asa penis, and as a result,
we put our feelings aside. Butthe truth is, I go into a
Hooters, and I've only been inHooters. I'm gonna say less than half.
It does a time. I feelgross. I just feel anytime I
go into a restaurant, and I'vebeen to a few tilted kill, Hooters,

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Twin Peaks. I'm not gonna namethem all because now I sound like
a perveron. I've been into ajust a handful of these restaurants, and
I always feel like such a dirtbag because nobody assumes you're going into grab
a quick bite to eat. I'mgone. Look, I took a little
bit of my wife and I wenta little vacation. We took a little

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train ride when we were living inKansas City, and we took this train
ride to Saint Louis. We pulledinto Union Station. We were with a
group of friends. Do you rememberwhen we went to a ball game or
something, but I know that wegot together and we ate it Hooters.
Yeah, why not, let's eatit Hooters. Okay, it was fun.
It's a good time. The problemis you go in there and your
wife. We were all with ourit was all couples. My wife assumes

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that I'm staring at the waitress.The waitress assumes that I'm staring at the
waitress. I'm doing everything in mypower to not stare at the waitress,
because my god, if somebody dropsa spoon and I turned my head to
see what that noise was and thewaitress happens to be standing there, I'm
never gonna hear the end. Butif I've gone in by myself from meeting

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up with a friend or something,I always feel like a dirty old man.
I've always felt like it feels desperateto me. I guess that's the
word. Like if you're if youhave to go to a restaurant to see
a pretty young girl in tight clothes. What does that say about you?

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It just feels desperate. I don'tblame the Hooters workers. Let's make a
living doing whatever you want. Idon't know, and I know Hooters is
kind of a training ground for strippers. I get it. I get it
that everybody becomes a stripper. Somepeople are just trying to pay for college.
Listen, A want of strippers startingto pay for college. Med school
doesn't pay for itself. I getit. It's fine, do whatever you
want, free country. I don'thave a problem. I'm just telling you

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I feel sneezy when I go intoa restaurant. I've never been to a
script club. I know that soundsodd, doesn't it. Like Listen,
you sound like a dirty old man. Surely you've been to a strip club.
And no, I've never been toa strip club because I I don't
like the way I feel when Igo into a place like that. I
just feel I feel like I'm notthe person I want to be. If

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I have to act like I'm beinga good person, right, I want
to just be a good person.I think of myself as a big murder
curse. We all do. That'smy person mistake. But I don't want
to have a conversation with someone andfeel the temptation to look at their body,

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knowing she expects me to look ather body. But I don't want
to be that guy. No,that makes sense. I don't know I
was a shelter. It just feelsgross, feels sleazy. I don't like
it. I don't like it atall. So anyway, Hooters is closing
a number of underperforming locations. Weare getting word to Oh, there have
been others Lobsters closing places, andRubios is closed hang out. I think

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katy La has got a bit ofa rundown here in other places that closed.
Let me see, food away fromhome has increased more than twenty five
percent since the pandemic began, andincreased another four percent in May, compared
to one percent of earth for groceries. That's the cost of eating out,
food away from eating just getting somethingelse. Yeah, Rubios close forty eight

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underperforming locations. Red Lobster finally forbankruptcy. We know that I got word
from there's a California McDonald's franchise thatthis is a fox from headline, So
take it leave it. It's aFox News headline. Outspoken California McDonald's franchisee
becomes latest victim of gut wrenching closuresand they blame it in part on the

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minimum wage in right increase for fastfood workers. Now they don't say what
other things would be factors. Rodericktold ABC seven, I think this is
Bay Are from m ste uh StonestownGalleria southwest of San Francisco. Yes,
sold ABC seven, it's going tobe Bay Area EBC seven, that the
decision was gut wrenching for his family, and he blamed the closure on a

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number of factors, but put theonus on California's twenty dollars minimum wage.
So well, there were a numberof factors, but it was news them
fall. That's just easy to say, and then you get play on Fox
News newsmags whoever wants to turn thispolitical. The fact is your business closed
because it was performing. Blenty ofother McDonald's the Bay Area not closing,

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so not a thing, but don'tlet the facts get in away over to
them. Are so business is closing, can't keep up because of Newsom's fault,
or maybe people don't want to goto restaurants, or maybe it's just
that we've seen inflation hit restaurants threetimes as much as it's hit anywhere else.

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You want drivers of inflation, lookno further than the drive through men.
Sorry, you know you guys gotto raise your prices not to pay
minimum wage, but because you haveto pay Steph Curry and some owe bios
and Patrick Mahomes to be your spokespeople. Yeah, imagine if you didn't have
to do that subway, maybe youcould still go back to the five dollars

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five dollars foot long, but youdon't now it was like a ten dollar
foot long, and I don't acceptthat. Maybe I'll write a nasty review,
although my nasty review would probably justblend in with all the other NaSTA
reviews that you get from AI.Or on that next Chris perrel KFI AM

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six forty Live everywhere in your iHeartRadioapp you're listening to Later with Moe Kelly
on demand from kfi AM six fortybefore we roll on. There are a
number of devious people who have decidedto use AI to manipulate your feelings on

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restaurants. We've been talking about foodhere this hour because I'm still fat and
I was. It's it's an ongoing struggle. But part of me doesn't
care that I'm fat. Well,if my taste blood, they're happy.
Part of me then gets done eatingand I feel guilty and self loathing.
How about using AI to write reviewsfor your restaurant. Yeah, some people

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can do this. Phony me.Phony Me is the name of the the
demo that was done for a NewYork Times breporter and the professor of an
organized behavior at Yale School of Managementdid a study. He fed a large
batch of Yelp reviews into GPT fourthat's the chat GPT and then he said,

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imitate thes and so subjects were people, and they couldn't tell the difference
between a genuine review and the reviewsthat were churned out by AI. In
fact, when they had to guess, they were more likely to say that
the real reviews were fake and thatthe AI reviews were real. I believe

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that means it passed the touring test. My right on that mark. The
touring test is when we gauge whetheror not a computer is so smart.
We don't know that it's a computer. Yeah, but when you're talking about
Yelp, it's more like the Karentest, isn't it? Oh nikes,
good one. I like that.That was a good pull. Anyway,
what we're finding is AI could startwriting a bunch of these reviews. Now,

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imagine, if you've got a restaurantand you want your restaurant to look
good, you just start dumping reviewsout from AI and start posting those.
Right, just create a few differentGmail accounts. You log in, you
put a post, went here,loved it, staff was great? Sure,
you say hi to the hostess,whatever, leave a big tip.
All of a sudden, you've gota five star review on Yelper, Google

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Reviews, or whatever else it is. It's another way people are using tech
to manipulate the system. And sometimesas much as I love technology, I
hate us. I just hate usand everybody. Why don't you get more?
Why don't you do more online?Why don't you do be more technologically
savvy? Why don't you because Idon't want to, because I want the
real experience. Oh no, youneed to be on social media? Why

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to make social media goers happy?Yeah, it's really good. We could
sell it worse. Did you happento see? There was a story that
came out. Oh, this week, it was a little wilent one here,
and I could sit down because it'sa good one. So there's this
company. I did a survey theUnwritten Rules of Dining out. They pulled

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a thousand Americans, and then Iask restaurant customers what behaviors are the most
unacceptable. Oh yeah, okay,it sounds familiar. Okay, the top
ten bad diner behaviors. Now thisis from the people who are like employees,

(29:17):
wait staff, hosts and hostesses,cooks, all that kind of stuff.
So here is the top ten baddiner behaviors coming in at number ten.
It's a lot lower than I thought. Flirting with the staff fifty seven
percent say that's terrible behavior, whichmeans forty three percent of the staff likes
it when you flirt with them,probably because if they flirt back, you

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get a bigger tip because they're justplaying off your emotions. You're not taking
your home, she's not going homewith you. Quit trying, but she's
going home with more money. Yeah, you're right too. It's like,
I leave her a big tip becauseshe's really nice to me. It makes
me think I stayed a chance.You don't, you don't stay the change
coming in at number nine. Occupyinga table for an extended period of time

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during busy hours, Yeah, becausethey want to turn that table over them.
Where they turn the table over,the more tips they get out of
that table. Number eight. Leavea mess at the table, like spilled
drinks or food crumbs? Did Imiss something? Aren't you? I mean
crumbs is kind of innocuous, ButI think maybe they mean, like if
it's just a complete like you thrashthe table. Maybe, Yeah, they

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don't want you to act like afilthy animal as all. Listen, I
get it. You go to someespecially fast food restaurants, they put it
on a tray. You're expected tobust your own table, but they still
have somebody who's gonna come out inthe dining room and wipe it down.
Yeah, even if you have busservice, they don't expect you to act
like, you know, Mick Jaggerin a hotel room. Yeah yeah,
fair, okay, fair, Althoughat Morton's, aren't you supposed to leave

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crumbs? I mean, otherwise whatwould that guy do with that weird little
tool that he gets around. I'venever been more instead of you're gonna have
a jumb Okay, they come aroundand they clean the crumbs up in front
you. Ah, they don't likeit. If you may a reservation you
show up late. Number six baddiner behaviors bringing outside food or drink into
the restaurant. Yeah, have somecoop, would ja? Isn't that a

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little more acceptable? The lower thelower the class the restaurant. In other
words, the closer you are tofast food, the more acceptable it is.
I don't think the people at TacoBell care if you bring in McDonald's
french fries and then order a chilopa. No that they care. But if
it's the kind of restaurant where youwear your nice cutoffs, they care.

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Yeah right. They also have guysthat run around cleaning up your crumbs too.
How about people who snap their fingersto get the waiters attention. Oh
that's they wish instant death on you. Now, I wish you's to death
on anybody else? See doing thatif you stay past the restaurant's closing time.
I can tell you, working ina restaurant for years when I was
in high school and college, wehated it when people would come in minutes

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before we closed and then ordered thatwould delay our break and our cleanup and
are going on. We hated it, hated it. Unave a tip that'll
put their kids through college. Ohmy god. Well yeah, but we
worked in the kitchen so that thewait staff got the tip. We didn't
get squat. If you start arguingabout menu prices with the staff, they
don't like that. Number two baddiner behaviors allowing your kids to roam freely,

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thank you. Everybody hates that.The other diners hate that. And
the worst, the worst bad dinerbehavior is saying that you're not going to
pay for a dish that you didn'tlike, but you ate it anyway.
That's just scammy. We think you'rea scumbag, and as soon as you
leave, we are going to talkabout you behind your back. Just see
even there you go, so bea better person. Do those things.

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