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GROWING costs has forced the closure of several Queensland Cold Rock stores, putting 20 staff out of work and leaving suppliers owed thousands of dollars. In separate posts to Facebook this week it was announced Cold Rock stores at Indooroopilly and Springwood would close. Both Cold Rock franchises are owned by Bambry Enterprises Pty Ltd director Don Bambry. Mr Bambry took over the Springwood shop in 2014. He said rising costs in the past 12 months made the stores unviable. “There’s no question it’s just not profitable to run the business,” he said. “The stores are incredibly popular but over the last year or two with the increase in sales through Uber Eats and other home-delivery services, the commission they take, takes the profit out of the business.” The store owner declared he was “not the problem” with Uber Eats taking 30 per cent of the sale price as commission. “It takes businesses months and months to realise they’re bleeding (to delivery companies),” Mr Bambry said. About 20 employees from the two stores are out of work but have been paid their entitlements as a priority. He said several suppliers were owed money, in the tens of thousands of dollars. “The growth in the stores has peaked and the costs keep going up,” he said. “It’s quite sad for me to close.” Mr Bambry said he was “relentless about concerns” to head office about the stores’ profitability. “If I go on the dole tomorrow I’m going to bring home more money that I did for the past 12 months,” he said. Franchised Food Company chief executive Stan Gordon blamed evening penalty rates for “making a lot of the retail stores untenable”. “You just can’t pay the wages that are demanded,” he said. “I think you’ll continue to see the demise of retail stores. “I think everybody should be paid the same rate for a 38-hour week and then after 38 hours add penalty rates. “We’re in a 24-hour, seven-day world.” Mr Gordon said the closure of the two stores “took us by absolute surprise”. He said Springwood, the third-best performing store in Australia, would be reopened. “There’s no guarantees in life but I can say pretty certainly Springwood will open,” he said. “We’re in the business of opening stores, not closing them.” He disagreed with Mr Bambry’s complaint about delivery companies crippling the business. “I don’t really buy that,” he said. “If you don’t want to do it, don’t do it. “Nobody is standing with a gun at their head saying you have to.” The Franchised Food Company boss said the company was strong and would continue to expand. “Retail is tough and anybody who says differently is talking nonsense,” he said. “We’re strong and we’re seeing growth in our stores.” Mr Bambry said his company, Bambry Enterprises Pty Ltd, would be put into liquidation. The closure of the popular ice creamery comes less than a week after the Courier Mail revealed Toowoomba-based company Home Ice Cream would downsize. Home Ice Cream closed its Gold Coast depot last month, putting four people out of work.
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MysticalMachineGun posted:Unions self-policing shitheads like Setka out is a point against Liberals' "outlaw Unions" bullshit How is this point so hard to understand? Setka is doing MORE damage by being in power Jonah Galtberg posted:normally I would agree but the stakes are just too high now that the libs have made it clear that getting rid of him would trigger a whole new (new (new)) wave of further unionbusting We have a ingrained culture of violence against women that is far FAR more important to fight back against. Keeping a thug like Setka anywhere near power is 100% the wrong thing to do for the union movement and just keeps kicking own goals in the political debate. Frankly throwing Setka off a tall cliff would do more to protect the union movement AND to make it clear such bullshit is not tolerated. Start thinking about the optics to women about the union movement. Makes it pretty easy to say unions are made up of violent women hating thugs if you can point to that rear end in a top hat, doesnt it or to put it more simply -Sekha is cancer, it should be dealt with and fast.
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Anidav posted:I think everybody should be paid the same rate for a 38-hour week and then after 38 hours add penalty rates. Everyone except of course captains of industry that don’t know the difference between penalty rates and overtime
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Sep 19, 2019 01:41
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Albanese posted:Dance like nobody's watching, talk like the security agencies aren't listening, and donate like Gladys Liu is organising. Morrison posted:For those who need restrooms tonight, figure it out yourselves, I removed all the restroom signs. Champagne comedy
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/19/eric-abetz-compares-the-conversation-nazis-climate-change-denialquote:Abetz, who describes himself as a climate change agnostic, said environmental prophets of doom had been getting it wrong for half a century. Low hanging nazi jokes aside, that does not sound like the senator is agnostic about climate change.
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Sep 19, 2019 02:10
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Budget still in the red Frydenburg lied.
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Sep 19, 2019 02:29
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Anidav posted:Budget still in the red Liedenburg
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Anidav posted:Budget still in the red i don't believe it!
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It doesn't matter because 7/10 idiots will tell you that it'd be worse if the ALP won.
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gently caress, who knows given the current shitshow of a party they might not even be wrong.
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Sep 19, 2019 03:07
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I surplus will save me Says man on Newstart
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Sep 19, 2019 03:11
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the government explicitly not spending money on economic stimulus while simultaneously depressing wages and cutting public sector jobs for the sake of providing a budget surplus, widely considered a useless performance metric when borrowing rates are at near 0, is actually fantastic. I am a very intelligent news man.
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Only the kiss of Bill Shorten can save me from this hell world.
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Anidav posted:Only the kiss of Bill Shorten can save me from this hell world. Bill Shorten lost two unlosable elections, gently caress Bill Shorten
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Sep 19, 2019 03:21
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It is our fault for refusing to believe a better world is possible. Especially Katterstan.
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The Peccadillo posted:Why do men's rights advocates have this much of an in? It's weird as poo poo Pauline Hanson trawls the fringe for votes and the coalition sucks up to her. That's it.
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fauna posted:bill will return to save us when we least expect him Bill is the politician we deserve, but not the one we need.
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Bill doeant deserve anything.
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Anidav posted:
take some deep breaths, relax, then go and beat up your boss
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Lid posted:Bill doeant deserve anything.
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Bill was good. Lack of ALP media presence and lovely American style attacks on leaders by opposed parties and organisations instead of targeting policy.
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Don Dongington posted:It doesn't matter because 7/10 idiots will tell you that it'd be worse if the ALP won. Yeah but who listens to channel 7 and 10 any more?
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froglet posted:I am trying very hard not to fall into a depression abyss, but fuckin hell I'm not sure I can take another three years of this. LOL imagine thinking that after 3 years things will get better.
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froglet posted:I am trying very hard not to fall into a depression abyss, but fuckin hell I'm not sure I can take another three years of this. burgs
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JBP posted:Just tune out lol yeah nah
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Sep 19, 2019 06:14
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Oh no! The system that has like fifteen avenues of appeal sometimes finds in the favour of workers! Hissssssss!
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We shouldn't engage in stereotypes since that's what the right and news corp do but I can only imagine every small business owner turning red and making GBS threads their pants when they find out they can't act like Trump on the loving Apprentice since we have workers' rights
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froglet posted:I am trying very hard not to fall into a depression abyss, but fuckin hell I'm not sure I can take another three years of this.  it's been tough lately
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unemployed but still striking tomorrow
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NPR Journalizard posted:mmmm burgs hoodburger, mate
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