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McDonald’s Workers Are Begging People To Stop Ordering Adult Happy Meals
The news of Happy Meals for adults seemed like a neat little publicity stunt for McDonald’s, and a fun story for everyone to chortle along with. Cactus Plant Flea Market-style four-eyed toys of the old McDonald’s characters, in a box for the grown ups, seems a certainty for viral success. However, it turns out it’s backfiring spectacularly on actual McDonald’s staff, who are reporting the hyper-popular promotion has brought about chaos and misery as they struggle to fulfill an avalanche of orders. “bro pls don’t order those adult McDonald’s happy meals bro I’m begging,” wrote one employee on TikTok.
2021’s Pokémon card promotion was thought by many to be the nadir of customer invasions for the poorly-paid staff of the world’s largest fast food chain. However, this month’s Happy Meals For Adults endeavor is proving many degrees worse, according to employees we spoke to, along with those posting to Reddit and social media.
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Under the title, “New Adult Happy-meals are killing me,” one anonymous worker posted to Reddit to say, “We literally just came off the ‘buy one get one for a dollar’ and we were swamped with Big Mac meals. Now with this we have to literally stockpile them to survive a rush. I hate it.”
It seems that the offer of a cheap burger, combined with what will inevitably become a collectible toy, has driven customers into a frenzy, with orders coming in faster than restaurants can serve them. “The most difficult aspect of this promo for the crew is the sheer volume of these meals that we are selling,” one worker told Kotaku via Reddit DMs. “Most stores I have seen have sold out of either the special boxes, Big Mac buns, or toys. Some places it’s more than one of these.”
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The issue appears to be that in order to buy one of the adult Happy Meals, customers need to pick up a Big Mac or a box of 10 chicken nuggets—significantly bigger and more complex orders than go into a traditional child’s Happy Meal box. That, and children only get a Happy Meal when they’ve successfully nagged an adult into buying them one. Adults can just buy stuff whenever they like. And they are. In crazy numbers. And it doesn’t help that apparently the boxes haven’t even been designed to stack, something that puts additional strain on the staff who have to juggle the endless orders.
Many workers are taking to Reddit to post pictures of extraordinary orders coming through either via the app, or in drive thrus. This monster order from a drive thru, for instance, involved eight Big Macs and 20 chicken nuggets, along with ten portions of fries, ten drinks, etc, and all of them in adult Happy Meal boxes. With a 50% off coupon. For just one customer in the long line, and according to what we’ve seen, this is non-stop. One staffer reported their manager called back an order for 43 fries at once.
I asked an employee how this compared to a normal day. “I would say at least twice or three times as many Big Macs and not too many more nuggets.” This, of course, then has knock-on effects to everyone in the store, whether working the registers or trying to keep up with the orders in the kitchens.
Others are posting footage to TikTok, showing extraordinary numbers of Happy Meal orders on the line.
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Another TikTok video simply has a McD’s staffer begging people not to order the adult Happy Meal.
It’s hard to really express just how popular this offer is proving to be. But perhaps knowing that videos of people posting about having simply bought one on Tiktok are regularly getting hundreds of thousands of views, sometimes millions, gives an idea.
Another McDonald’s employee I spoke to told me they sold out of the Cactus Plant Flea Market box for the meals the first day. They added, while acknowledging that taking drive thru orders and making drinks wasn’t too bad, “I can see the stress among my coworkers.”
This is all exacerbated, of course, by customers’ ability to use delivery apps to order meals to their homes now, made dramatically more popular during the pandemic, and allowing people to make vast orders without fear of having to carry them. That and the “chaos” caused by McDonald’s own app: when people can tap their hyper specific orders without having to leave their house, and are sometimes offered a discount for it, they feel more comfortable asking for absurd meals that have endless customizations.
In slightly better news, when I asked one of the McDonald’s employees if their bosses were being understanding, they were emphatic in their response. “While I cannot vouch for any stores but my own, they are under an equal amount of stress as me and the rest of the crew. And they have been very understanding of the situation.”
We’ve reached out to McDonald’s to ask if they’re aware of these situations, and if they have any plans to better support staff, and will update should they reply.
Honda blasted for ordering hundreds of workers at Ohio factory to REPAY part of their bonuses
Automotive giant Honda has come under fire after it asked workers at one of its US factories to repay hundred of dollars in bonuses they received earlier this month, saying it overpaid many of the checks in error and now needs that extra money back.
The brazen reneging from the car manufacturer came on Tuesday, when staff at the Marysville Honda Motors Co. factory in Ohio – which employs thousands of workers – were sent a memo demanding they give back money from overpaid bonuses.
The amount of each overpayment is currently unclear, as it varies from person to person based on salary – but the bonuses in many cases amount to hundreds of dollars, and were dished out to thousands of workers at the Ohio plant.
After announcing the bonuses had been erroneously overpaid in the bulletin Tuesday, brass at the Japanese automaker wrote that workers would have just nine days to decide on how they will pay back the additional sums.
Staffers will have the option to deduct the money from future paychecks or bonuses, or pay the outstanding amount up front by cash or check.
Those who abstain from those options, the company said Tuesday, will have the excess deducted from their future bonuses by default.
Workers will have until September 22 to decide how to pay back the money – a hardship for many who are used to getting bonus payments and had not expected to give a portion back.
Some staffers at the plant – one of a dozen factories in the country that collectively produce over 5 million cars annually – have since questioned if the company is justified in collecting the overpayments, with one attorney saying Honda is justified in requesting the forced refunds.
Automotive giant Honda has come under fire after it asked workers at one of its US factories to repay hundred of dollars in bonuses they received earlier this month, saying it overpaid many of the checks in error and now needs that extra money back
The reneging from the car manufacturer came on Tuesday, when staff at the Marysville Honda Motors Co. factory in Central Ohio (pictured) were sent a memo demanding they give back money from overpaid bonuses. The plant currently employs thousands of workers
In a statement to DailyMail.com Sunday, brass at the popular auto retailer confirmed that they had dished out overpayments to several staffers last week, but would not specify how much those payments amounted to and how many were issued.
They added that managers are currently working to address the situation ‘to minimize any potential impact to our associates.’
‘Earlier this month Honda provided bonus payments to its associates, some of whom received overpayments,’ a Honda spokesperson conceded after being asked about the excess bonuses.
‘Issues related to compensation are a sensitive matter,’ the rep wrote in an email, adding that ‘we are working quickly on this item to minimize any potential impact to our associates.’
The spokesman added that since the matter was ‘a personnel issue,’ the company would not provide any further information related to this matter.’
The wife of one employee who received an excess bonus to the tune of several hundred of dollars told NBC4 that he owed Honda nearly 8 percent of his previously awarded bonus.
The woman spoke on condition of anonymity, out of fear he husband would be reprimanded for speaking out.
‘Not a lot of people can handle this kind of a hit,’ the wife of a Honda employee told the station, providing a copy of the memo her husband had received from his employer earlier in the week.
She added when her husband initially came home with the bonus check earlier in the month, she asked him if the amount seemed correct – to which she told her it did, citing that he had received more substantial bonueses from the company in the past.
‘I asked him that. I said, you know, ‘Was this… the highest check you’d ever gotten for a bonus check? [Did you think] that it seemed weird?’ And he said no, it wasn’t the highest he’d ever gotten.’
The memo, however, asserted that her husband owed back just shy of ten percent of his total bonus payment, which amounted to hundreds of dollars.
‘That’s, you know, a car payment. That’s half of our mortgage,’ the worker’s wife told NBC4 in an interview Friday where she explained the difficulty of paying back the sum, which the family, like so many others, had already accounted for.
‘That’s two, three weeks worth of groceries. That’s a lot of money for us.’
After announcing the bonuses had been erroneously overpaid in the bulletin Tuesday, brass at the Japanese automaker wrote that workers would have just nine days to decide on how they will pay back the additional sums
According to one attorney, Honda is legally within its right to request the overpaid wages back, adding that there is no recourse for the hundreds of affected workers and their wages.
‘Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, which applies to all employers in the United States, it’s quite clear that overpayments of bonuses or wages can be recouped by the employer,’ Sarah Cole, a law professor at the Ohio State University, told NBC4.
Cole’s advised employees affected by the oversight to go through with the required repayments, and choose the option that best suits them.
‘Honda could pursue this in court,’ the attorney, who specialized in employment and labor law, said.
‘But of course, that would be very expensive for them to do and obviously not look very positive from a publicity standpoint.’
She added: ‘So I’m sure they’re hoping to have voluntary agreement with the employees that the employee just willingly repays the overpayment.’
According to Cole, the mistake of overpaying employees has no penalty, protecting brass at the car manufacturer despite it presenting a challenging situation to its workers, whom are non-unionized.
The company currently employs nearly 30,000 associates in the US alone.
Ordering A Deal To Close
Elon Musk has cancelled a massive deal with Twitter
The judge overseeing Twitter Inc’s $44 billion lawsuit against Elon Musk has a no-nonsense reputation as well as the distinction of being one of the few jurists who has ever ordered a reluctant buyer to close a U.S. corporate merger.
Kathaleen McCormick took over the role of chancellor or chief judge of the Court of Chancery last year, the first woman in that role. On Wednesday, she was assigned the Twitter lawsuit which seeks to force Musk to complete his deal for the social media platform, which promises to be one of the biggest legal showdowns in years.
“She already has a track record of not putting up with some of the worst behavior that we see in these areas when people want to get out of deals,” said Adam Badawi, a law professor who specializes in corporate governance at the University of California Berkeley. “She is a serious, no-nonsense judge.”
In contrast to Musk’s brash and volatile behavior, she is known as soft-spoken, approachable and amiable — but a person who also stands her ground. She advocates respect among litigants and integrity at legal conferences.
“We’ve always had each other’s backs, we’ve always gone out for drinks after arguments and maintained this level civility,” she told a gathering at the University of Delaware this year.
After weeks of confrontational tweets suggesting Twitter was hiding the true number of fake accounts, Musk said on Friday he was terminating the $54.20-per-Twitter share acquisition, worth $44 billion. On Tuesday, the social media platform sued.
Judges have ordered reluctant buyers to close corporate acquisitions only a handful of times, according to legal experts and court records. One of those was McCormick.
Last year, McCormick got the attention of Wall Street dealmakers by ordering an affiliate of private equity firm Kohlberg & Co LLC to close its $550 million purchase of DecoPac Holding Inc, which makes cake decorating products.
She described her ruling as “chalking up a victory for deal certainty” and rejected Kohlberg’s arguments that it could walk away because of a lack of financing.
The case has many parallels to the Twitter deal. Like Musk, Kohlberg said it was walking away because DecoPac violated the merger agreement. Like Musk, Kohlberg argued in part that DecoPac failed to maintain ordinary operations.
There are also differences. Musk’s deal is magnitudes bigger, involves a publicly traded target company in Twitter and might have implications for Tesla Inc, the electric vehicle maker that is the source of much of Musk’s fortune.
In other cases, she has come down on the side of shareholders when they clashed with management.
Last year, she prevented energy company The Williams Cos Inc from adopting a so-called poison pill anti-takeover measure, saying it breached their fiduciary duty to shareholders.
Last month, she said shareholders of Carvana Co could sue the board for a direct offering of stock to select investors when the share price was depressed during the early pandemic.
A graduate of Notre Dame Law School, McCormick started her career with the Delaware branch of the Legal Aid Society, which helps low-income people navigate the court system.
She went into private practice “mainly for financial reasons,” she told the Delaware Senate during her confirmation hearing, joining Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, one of the state’s main firms for business litigation.
She joined the Court of Chancery in 2018 as a vice chancellor and became the first woman to lead the Court of Chancery last year.
Despite her mild manner, Eric Talley, who specializes in corporate law at Columbia Law School, said he doubts McCormick would be cowed by Musk.
“I would not be placing my bets on Chancellor McCormick suddenly becoming weak-kneed,” he said.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
Abbott challenges feds by ordering Texas soldiers, troopers to return migrants to border
The order appears to be unconstitutional, legal experts said, and may have little practical impact on Abbott’s ongoing, expensive and controversial border security initiative, Operation Lone Star. But it represents an escalation for the governor, who is running for reelection and eyeing national office, in a broader drama full of anti-immigrant rhetoric and legally dubious actions designed to challenge the federal government’s exclusive powers over immigration enforcement — potentially all the way to a conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court.
“I think it is pretty clear under current precedent that this is the type of decision that the federal government gets to make,” said Steve Vladeck, a professor at the University of Texas School of Law. “But I also think the most relevant Supreme Court precedent may very well be the target of this policy.”
In 2012, the Supreme Court ruled on a series on immigration-related laws, including the S.B. 1070 or “show me your papers” law, passed by the Arizona legislature, affirming that states cannot enforce their own immigration laws.
“I cannot envision a legal argument under which the governor of Texas would be allowed to engage in unilateral immigration enforcement,” said Denise Gilman, director of the Immigration Clinic at the University of Texas at Austin. “We don’t want each state enforcing their own immigration laws.”
But Texas has poured billions, including by diverting federal coronavirus relief funding, into its border crackdown, sending thousands of National Guard troops and directing Department of Public Safety officers to help patrol and arrest migrants in southern Texas. With each new step, Abbott is attempting to blur the lines between federal and state authority. The state has bused migrants to Washington, halted commercial traffic on international bridges for what critics called unnecessary inspections, challenged the Biden administration in court and emptied state prisons to jail migrants. It also is raising money to build a border barrier.
The White House criticized Abbott’s latest plan Thursday.
“Governor Abbott’s record on immigration doesn’t give us confidence in what he has cooked up now. His so-called Operation Lone Star put national guardsmen and law enforcement in dangerous situations and resulted in a logistical nightmare needing Federal rescue, and his secondary inspections of trucks crossing into Texas cost a billion dollars a week in trade at one bridge alone without turning up a single case of human or drug trafficking,” White House spokesperson Abdullah Hasan said in a statement.
“President Biden is focused on real policy solutions to actually secure our border,” the statement added.
Civil rights groups have asked the Justice Department to investigate Operation Lone Star for possible civil rights violations. The Texas Tribune reported this week that federal officials had opened an inquiry into Abbott’s program but that Justice Department officials did not respond to questions about the scope of their probe. A federal watchdog is, however, reviewing Abbott’s shifting of roughly $1 billion in relief funding to pay for the initiative.
“This is all a show,” said Claudia Muñoz, whose Texas-based group Grassroots Leadership runs a hotline for migrants detained by state officials on trespassing charges. “But it’s also more than symbolic because he puts money behind it. Texas is testing the different ways they can take control of the immigration system, and the federal government is letting them get away with it.”
The governor has repeatedly accused the Biden administration of encouraging the increasing numbers of immigrants taking risks and putting their lives in the hands of smugglers to reach Texas and the broader United States. He went after the president after San Antonio law enforcement officers found dozens of dead and dying migrants abandoned inside a sweltering tractor-trailer last month.
“While President Biden refuses to do his job and enforce immigration laws enacted by Congress, the state of Texas is once again stepping up and taking unprecedented action to protect Americans and secure our southern border,” Abbott said in a statement. “As the challenges on the border continue to increase, Texas will continue to take action to address those challenges caused by the Biden administration.”
But the Biden administration has largely kept in place — compelled by court order — border policies implemented during his predecessor’s tenure, including a public health order expelling most border crossers and the Migrant Protection Protocols or “Return to Mexico” program. The Supreme Court last month cleared the Department of Homeland Security to end the policy. White House officials and Democrats have called Abbott a hypocrite for not levying similar criticism on Trump.
The wording of Thursday’s executive order is vague about what “returning migrants to the border” means for soldiers and troopers who apprehend them. Under the current operation, people caught on privately owned land are arrested and transferred to state prison. Advocates say more than 3,000 migrants have been detained without formal charges, access to lawyers or the right to a speedy trial. Many were later handed over to federal authorities for deportation or expulsion.
The state of Texas does not have the power to deport. Abbott spokesperson Renae Eze explained that “illegal immigrants will be returned/transported back to the border at [ports of entry].”
“It’s discriminatory and violates civil rights,” said Laura Peña, legal director for the Texas Civil Rights Project’s Beyond Borders program. “This is just another escalation of what is an underlying drumbeat of racism and xenophobia that Abbott has been fomenting and can have deadly consequences.”
But at least one Texas jurisdiction has already begun taking matters into its own hands. Kinney County, a rural South Texas ranching community along the Rio Grande, was one of the first local governments to declare an emergency over the “border crisis” and has become the focal point of a far-right campaign to push the state further border security offensive. Amplification of the county’s campaign has attracted attention from across conservative media.
This week the county’s top elected official, Tully Shahan, brought together a group of rural Texas sheriffs, elected leaders, Roy, and former Trump administration officials Mark Morgan and Ken Cuccinelli to declare that their communities are “waging war” and that Biden is “destroying Western civilization.” The county is also tied into federal litigation over the policy priorities and directives to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that it says infringe on agents’ ability to enforce the law, represented by Kris Kobach, a former Kansas secretary of state known for hard-line views against illegal immigration.
Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe last month initially told conservative media outlets that he deported four migrants after U.S. Border Patrol agents did not take them into custody. He later changed his account, explaining that the people had been involved in a smuggling incident that ended in a crash. Coe, a retired Border Patrol agent, said he did not have a safe place for them in the county jail so he put the migrants in his truck, drove to the Eagle Pass, Tex., port of entry and dropped them off.
“Coe took them to the bridge and they walked across into Mexico and he will do it again,” said Matt Benacci, the sheriff department’s spokesman. “Border Patrol wasn’t going to take them, so he made the best decision he could consistent with keeping them in safe circumstances.”
Attorney Kathryn Dyer, who unsuccessfully sued to have Coe held in contempt over his detention of migrants, said the county has been a willing facilitator of Abbott’s agenda. But she said the danger comes when other jurisdictions take note and replicate.
“Kinney has taken on this leadership role,” she said. “We are already seeing this blueprint and pushing of these issues formulating in other states. When you have one state that is ignoring the line between federal and state jurisdiction, that puts all of us at risk of ignoring the law moving forward.”
While Abbott’s move was met with approval by hard-liners on the right, the governor did not do what the small group of Texas sheriffs and elected leaders asked for: declare an invasion.
“We acknowledge Governor Abbott’s recognition that the facts on the ground along the border comport with the Constitution’s understanding of an invasion,” said Cuccinelli, a Homeland Security official under President Donald Trump, in a joint statement with Russ Vought, president of the conservative Center for Renewing America. But they said Abbott’s move doesn’t go far enough and amounts to little more than “catch and release.”
Biden ordering massive release of oil in bid to curb gas prices
President Biden is ordering the release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve of 1 million barrels per day on average for the next six months, he announced Thursday.
Why it matters: The historic release size underscores how much Russia’s war is causing havoc in energy markets — and how the White House hopes to limit political fallout from high gas prices.
Driving the news: The release is expected to “shore up global supplies,” per White House senior administration officials, who also say that it will lower gas prices.
- “This record release will provide a historic amount of supply to serve as bridge until the end of the year when domestic production ramps up,” the White House said.
- Biden also authorized the use of the Defense Production Act to support the production and processing of minerals and materials used for large capacity batteries, including lithium, nickel, cobalt and graphite.
- Biden on Thursday also urged Congress to charge oil and gas companies if they are sitting on wells that are not producing oil and leases that they are not developing, per the White House.
What they’re saying: “It is hard to overstate the scale of this intervention if it bears out. It would be the largest drawdown volume announced in the 45-year history of the SPR by a factor of 3.6x,” the research firm ClearView Energy Partners said in a note.
Between the lines: Oil prices fell sharply Wednesday night after Bloomberg, Reuters and elsewhere reported on Biden’s expected announcement, with the U.S. benchmark WTI down more than 4% to $104.46 and Brent seeing a similar drop.
What we’re watching: The effect of the plan on the tight oil market, and potential new releases from other nations coordinated through the International Energy Agency.
- The impacts are hard to tease out as international efforts to isolate Russia could lead to sharp declines in its exports that exceed the reported daily size of the SPR release.
- Goldman Sachs, in a note, said the reported plan would ease, but not resolve, oil’s “structural deficit” and help the market rebalance.
- “This would reduce the amount of necessary price-induced demand destruction, the sole oil rebalancing mechanism currently available in a world devoid of inventory buffers and supply elasticity,” Goldman Sachs noted.
- “This would remain, however, a release of oil inventories, not a persistent source of supply for coming years.”
Catch up fast: It’s the latest of several Biden administration attempts to try and tame prices via the SPR.
- In November, the White House announced 50 million barrels in releases, with another 30 million in early March, alongside 30 million from other nations.
The Energy Department, which manages the reserve, says it holds more than 568 million barrels of oil.
Editor’s note: This article has been updated with new details throughout.
Get a chance at ordering an Xbox Series X bundle from GameStop today
We’re off and running in the year 2022 with new console restocks. While we’re all hoping that availability of the popular PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X consoles opens up so anyone can buy a console at retail price whenever they choose, for now we have to keep our eyes peeled, remain vigilant, and keep our F5 keys ready.
While GameStop finished off 2021 with a series of scheduled in-store selling events for new consoles — giving us a throwback to the old days of lining up outside of stores in person — the video game retailer now has Xbox Series X consoles available on its site to order. You can pick up an Xbox Series X bundle, complete with Far Cry 6, NBA 2K22, Call of Duty Vanguard, and a $50 GameStop gift card for $669.96.
GameStop’s new console bundles are usually limited to GameStop Pro subscribers, though this one is open to everyone. Remember that patience and persistence are often key with these console restocks. Don’t stop trying until it shows sold out. Though if luck is not on your side for this one, or if you don’t prefer a bundle, we’ll be sure to keep you updated on future console restocks at GameStop and other retailers.
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Chipotle opening prototype online-only ordering “Digital Kitchen”
Chipotle announced it’s opening a new “Digital Kitchen” restaurant this month in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio (about 40 miles south of Cleveland) — which will exclusively accept online orders.
The prototype location will offer its pickup-only drive-thru “Chipotlane,” some outdoor seats and tables for eating (no dining room), and a walk-up window. Hungry customers should avoid knocking on that pickup window expecting to have their order taken. Instead, order online or on the Chipotle app and then check back at the window or roll up to the drive-thru.
Chipotle says that there are about 300 restaurant locations with a drive-thru window already, which only accounts for about 10 percent of all its burrito procuring destinations. Should this prototype digital kitchen store be successful, we can probably expect to see fewer dining rooms with soda stations, and say goodbye to DIY smoked chipotle Tabasco sauce application (as of right now, you can’t select this sauce in the order system).
Chipotle might run into issues with customers trying to take orders at the window, only to be turned away to go order online. As long as the restaurant looks like a Chipotle, which is a place people expect to line up and build a burrito, there’s going to be some confusion. It could be beneficial for Chipotle to visually differentiate its digital kitchen more and lean into being a ghost kitchen, from which the company seems to be borrowing a bit of the idea.
The concept of ghost kitchens, an online-only virtual restaurant that has no customer-facing location, has gained in popularity. Ghost kitchens like MrBeast Burger have operated out of restaurants that need another source of revenue during the pandemic. The concept has also evolved into kitchens running out of shipping containers and parking lots. A ghost kitchen is, by design, only going to invite online delivery orders with no customers trying to knock on doors.
Although not a ghost kitchen, concepts like Chipotle’s Digital Kitchen are popping up everywhere in this pandemic world — including new spots for Jack in the Box, Del Taco, and Taco Bell. In an effort to practice social distancing, more people are ordering food online, using delivery services, and hitting the drive-thrus. Chipotle’s Chipotlane locations are also growing to accommodate this, and one easy way to do that is to take over buildings that already have a drive-thru.
At least one location I found in North Bergen, New Jersey used to be a Carl’s Jr., but now it’s a Chipotlane. Chipotle will probably continue to do this — new restaurants with Chipotlanes apparently have 15 percent higher sales than ones without — until they can output beans and guac nearly as fast as Taco Bell can, perhaps further risking burnout for its workers.
Taco Bell, the recently alternative-meat snubbing fast-food chain, announced in August its first “Taco Bell Defy” location in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota that is exclusively a four-lane drive-thru. The new locations will have an upper-level kitchen that sends digital orders down via a lift without any human contact. Three of those four lanes are also dedicated to delivery services — while Chipotle will be sharing just the one with both DoorDash type delivery services and regular customers.
U.S. Considers Ordering Commercial Airlines to Help in Afghan Evacuation
WASHINGTON—The Biden administration is planning a dramatic ramp-up of its airlift from Kabul by making preparations to compel major U.S. airlines to help with the transportation of tens of thousands of evacuees from Afghanistan, while expanding the number of U.S. military bases that could house Afghans.
The White House is expected to consider activating the Civil Reserve Air Fleet, or CRAF, created in 1952 in the wake of the post-World War II Berlin Airlift, to provide nearly 20 commercial jets from up to five airlines to augment U.S. military efforts to transport Afghan evacuees from bases in the region, according to U.S. officials.
The civilian planes wouldn’t fly in or out of Kabul, which fell to Taliban rule Aug. 15, officials said. Instead, commercial airline pilots and crews would help to ferry the thousands of Afghans and others who are stranded at U.S. bases in Qatar, Bahrain and Germany.
The involvement of the commercial airliners would relieve the pressure on those bases, which are fast filling up with Afghan evacuees as the U.S. expands efforts to fly them out of the airport in Kabul. Thousands of Afghans at risk of retaliation from the Taliban because of their association with U.S. forces have flooded the airport in the past week.
The U.S. Transportation Command, part of the military, has provided an initial notification to airlines that they may be told to implement the reserve fleet, the U.S. officials said. White House, Pentagon and Commerce officials hadn’t yet issued final approvals for its use, and alternative options still could be instituted, the officials said. The possible use of CRAF hasn’t been previously reported.
Tesla fights court ruling ordering CEO Musk to delete tweet
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Tesla has appealed a decision by the National Labor Relations Board, (NLRB) that found the electric car company had violated U.S. labor laws, after the company fired a union activist in 2018.
In a Friday petition, Tesla requested the New Orleans-based U.S. Court of Appeals review NLRB’s decision filed on March 25, first reported Reuters Saturday.
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The petition further asked the court to review the NLRB’s decision to order Tesla CEO Elon Musk to delete a 2018 tweet that was viewed as anti-union.
“Nothing stopping Tesla team at our car plant from voting union. Could do so tmrw if they wanted,” Musk wrote. “But why pay union dues & give up stock options for nothing?”
“Our safety record is 2X better than when plant was UAW & everybody already gets healthcare,” he added.
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The NLRB also directed Tesla to offer to reinstate the terminated employee and to rescind 2017 regulations that prohibit employees from distributing unionization information or pamphlets without prior approval from the company.