tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post6315244858039567212..comments2023-08-14T11:44:27.299-04:00Comments on Jeremiah's<br> Vanishing New York: We Are StardustJeremiah Mosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11791516443125872364noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-57684124540637196302017-03-03T01:53:26.748-05:002017-03-03T01:53:26.748-05:00Ellen's is NOT female run. Ellen is just the n...Ellen's is NOT female run. Ellen is just the name and face of the business. It was founded by her husband ( now deceased) Irving Sturm. Ellen's contributed the singing server aspect to the business which made it hugely successful but she has never RAN the business. Her son Ken Storm who is now running the business has always did the paperwork for his father upstairs in their fourth floor offices. He has barely come down to the restaurant in YEARS as an owner. I would bet that he could barely pick any of his employees out of a lineup. That has awl sways been the overwhelming probliem with getting any concerns addressed. He has always been twice removed from daily restaurant operations. Now he hires a management team, who by the way were never introduced to the employees as "managers" but a training team to overhaul operations and " train" new and existing management to better serve our guests more efficiently. What they actually did was bully old manangement into submission and turn them against long time employees and turn new management into firing machines. The result mass exodus and firings of almost EVERY long time employee at Ellen's. The average tenure there is 6-8 years. One of the fired has worked at Ellen's for TWENTY YEARS. I don't know of any successful company that has had problems employees with that kind of tenure. If the reason for firing (35 employees to date ) that many employees were valid, how on earth could they be so wildly profitable for so long and why did it take SO LONG to get rid of these people? Either the owner is incredibly stupid or the fact that EVERY employee let go is a union memeber or a combination of both. <br />Hope this clears up things a bit. seavonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01251968204393735170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-69549884939094916482016-10-19T16:36:44.232-04:002016-10-19T16:36:44.232-04:00I am surprised a female-run business would screw o...I am surprised a female-run business would screw over fellow female employees. Gena Hymowechhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09275634594307390669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-8108256953763266942016-10-15T13:25:57.677-04:002016-10-15T13:25:57.677-04:00What makes you think a female-run business is goin...What makes you think a female-run business is going to be any more humane than any other business?Al Cabalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17013753180559845119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-77316357344683603502016-10-14T15:00:08.271-04:002016-10-14T15:00:08.271-04:00This is shocking considered this is a female-run b...This is shocking considered this is a female-run business. I think Ellen's was around before 1995. I remember going to another location of it in the 1980s, mid or late, or very early 90s. I stopped going to Ellen's after one memorable visit. I was looking up at their train set. A train was running on it and running in back of the train was a real mouse. I told the waiter and he didn't seem to care. That was it for me and Ellen. Gena Hymowechhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09275634594307390669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-16683903578385072412016-10-12T09:41:54.463-04:002016-10-12T09:41:54.463-04:00What is the point of the union if the management a...What is the point of the union if the management apparently can so easily mass fire the employees? Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16018698439789288968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-683382864156505640.post-73473844999470447602016-10-11T10:07:59.751-04:002016-10-11T10:07:59.751-04:00It is a shame that there is little leverage for th...It is a shame that there is little leverage for the employees. Stardust can do the ultimate, like the Carnegie, and simply go out of business. So much of restaurant labor was undocumented worker and off the books wages in the past,that going legit is causing problems for the businesses who have to create legit business plans that include legal wages and better treatment of employees.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16018698439789288968noreply@blogger.com