Burger King Shut Down

by Ava Nichols

Burger King on Pike Street shut down on December 31, 2021. Many people loved going to this Burger King for the great service, good food, and how clean it was inside. It is very sad that they have closed for good.

From reviews and people talking, they have said that this Burger King was a

great first job experience. The managers and co-workers were amazing. A couple

co-workers who have worked there got asked a couple questions on what there

opinion was on working and getting along with other people. One person who

worked there for around a year said,”It wasn’t great at times but everyone always

knew how to keep your spirit up.” Another who worked there for around 8 months

said,”We was all family in there. It was almost like anything in there stayed there,

we was that close.”

The main reason on why they could not stay open was because there was not

enough sells to keep everything flowing like it should. One of the reasons why there

wasn’t enough sells was because we didn’t have a lot of people to keep the store

open all day. So the days that they were only opened for 7:00am-6:00pm or

10:00am-5:00pm was because there was not enough people for the other shifts. So

only having the store opened 11-7 hours shortened the sells up a lot more than they

should’ve been.

When Covid first hit, the lobby shut down completely but over the summer of

2021 it opened back up for a short amount of time until Covid wasn’t as bad as

before. As the summer went by the virus started to spread again and that was

about the same time that people started quitting. That was the reason the lobby

was never opened and when it was it was only opened from 11:00am-2:00pm.

The pay rate that Burger King had was $8.45-$10.00 an hour but towards the

end it was $12.00 an hour. If you called off for so many days or showed up late then

it would stay at $8.45 until the manger felt like you was doing better. Also, lets say

someone just started working and they were about 3 months into the job and they

started out at $10.00, if they was to learn register, headset, bagging, etc. they

could’ve gotten a raise from that.

There was always a lot of fun moments that happened in that store. Like what

was all said, before it was filled with some amazing people. It’s sad to think that

they actually shut down but there’s always a chance that something else will one

day set right there.