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Unlike other venerable Cambridge establishments like the Tasty, Mr. Bartley's Burger Cottage and Keezer's Classic Clothing, all taking shoppers on a mystical voyage to the 1950s, Ko's dealership does not pretend to sell history...
MONROE, Conn: A burger at McDonald's isn't complete without fries and a Coke. And for a few customers at this town's Golden Arches, nothing compliments the trio better than a nice big bag of pot. In a bust sure to wipe the perpetual smile of Ronald McDonald's face, a 19-year-old employee of the burger joint was arrested today for selling marijuana in Happy Meals. Mence Powell, who manned the restaurant's drive-through window, was taken into custody after selling undercover officers a burger, fries, soda and a side of weed on five separate...
...McDonald's trains a burger flipper to use a computer to monitor inventory," says Shapiro, "the employee's new skills may enable him to win a better position with Red Lobster or K Mart, and the competitor reaps the benefit of McDonald's training investment." This market failure hits average workers hardest. As Clinton has noted time and again, large corporations spend whatever is necessary to ensure that their executives are up to date on management techniques because, says Shapiro, "improving the decisions of supervisors produces higher returns from the workers they direct." Those at the top receive the education...
...wouldn't be directly compelled to train workers; but if they provided training for some employees (as they do now), they would then have to offer training to all--or lose their tax write-offs. Another part of the bargain could assuage industry concerns. To ameliorate the problem of burger flippers' moving on, trained employees could be required to sign employment contracts (as many professionals must do now). By forcing trained workers to stay put for a year or two, the companies would benefit from their training investment as worker competence improved--a fair exchange benefiting everyone...
Last October Gates brought Melinda and their new daughter to visit Buffett and his wife in San Francisco. They ended up playing bridge for nine hours straight. Another marathon session in Seattle started in the morning and lasted--with a break for Melinda to pick up lunch at Burger King--until guests started arriving for dinner. "He loves games that involve problem solving," Buffett says. "I showed him a set of four dice with numbers arranged in a complex way so that any one of them would on average beat one of the others. He was one of three people...