“We’re trying to do something new and make a change in this industry,” said owner Tanner Agar.
bar on Lower Greenville Avenue, isn’t surprised by the negative feedback. He and his team prepared for it before announcing the new employee benefits plan that includes health insurance and paid time off for the 20 full-time workers.
on Jan. 9. “These are people who aren’t even eating at Rye who are hating this program. So we look at this and say, ‘Did we do this wrong?’ And I would say no, because the people who eat at Rye seem to like it.”, feedback from regular customers on the benefits plan has been fully positive, Agar said. And other restaurant owners interested in implementing similar benefits programs have reached out to Agar to see how it’s going.
Agar added that while the approach is new for Rye and Apothecary, it isn’t new to the restaurant industry, and the concept of funding employee benefits through customer sales certainly isn’t new either.
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