The mainstream media story of the day doesn't really impact the lives of locals that much but it makes newsies feel smart so here's the best of what they had to offer.
The conclusions are obvious and there's a reminder about all of the Kansas City incentives and the border war.
The tragic thing here is that another FAIL for tax and spend strategy won't change anything and locals ON BOTH SIDES OF THE STATE LINE are still committed to corporate welfare as their tax base shrinks and disappears.
Check the best of today's links:
Applebee's to KC and Missouri: Thanks for all those incentives, now see ya!
Applebee's Split From Kansas City Region May Help End Economic Border War
Report: Applebee's moving headquarters from KC to Calif.
On the bright side, Mayor Sly's loss of the fancy chicken HQ offers a moment of pause about the lure of local life for the corporate b-list.
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ReplyDeleteRiddance.
Next up?
ReplyDeleteSprint and AMC.
Thanks for playing.
Guess they didn't want to be like everybody else and move to Johnson County.
ReplyDeleteWhen my late mother (who all her life had eaten often at fine restaurants all over the USA and Europe) announced that Applebees was her new favorite restaurant, we immediately thought it was the first sign of dementia/Alzheimer's. We had her checked out right after that. It was.
AMC is already gone.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened KC? You used to be great.
KC Business Journal has a good report too but they're site sucks. Too bad KC seems to be fading.
ReplyDeleteCan you blame them? Glendale is MUCH nicer than KC.
ReplyDeleteTheir parent company is in Glendale, it only makes sense.
ReplyDeleteFigured out too many franchises mostly have subpar product, inconsistent quality, and good luck with acceptable service at many.
ReplyDeleteThe 'institutional' production of their fare at mega commissaries is likely the main incentive to set up in CA. Cheaper labor costs in food factories with proximity to growers is sure to hold or fatten the profits.
Over ten years ago was our family's last stop at Applebee's...dirty/dusty air vents and too many other areas dingy, slow service even at off-peak hours, tough steak (nasty flavor, too rare), and t.v. gameshow deafening.
Complained to the server and manager, meanwhile waited for the 'sent back' steaks (thought better of it and sure didn't eat anything) then left.
Manager came to the exit and said we could have $20. off our next visit by email survey. No thanks.
As per usual, Kansas City hype doesn't often amount to much more than that. Anybody 'settling' here is not here to stay because the grass, politics and laws are all greener abroad. Thanks for playing.
ReplyDeleteThat is wisdom @ 4:52. I know the job losses will hurt KC but Applebee's really is a dime a dozen. TKC, there is no way you can call them an innovative business and it will hurt them more than the KC area.
ReplyDeleteCan't keep Applebee's but we got a cutting edge media empire blog and a light rail system known worldwide.
ReplyDelete@4:52 and xalti/Tony, tell the rest of the story. That was the 5th Applebee's you tried the "tough steak" sham on. They got wise and figured $20.00 would buy you off. But no, you're way too sharp for that. After graduating from Alonzo Grift Academy, you know the ropes.
ReplyDeleteAll wrong 5:19.
Delete4:52 here and not TKC. Went to Shawnee once, Olathe once and Legends Applebee's once. Two out of three were okay, the Legends SUCKED. We got our drinks so damn slow with dining area and bar less than half full for lunch -- was pissed. My one small bite is all that was eaten, from the edge. My spouse's steak drained bright red blood onto the vegs before being cut into. We both cut them in half and the crap was cold, stiff and obviously not thawed. We felt the bottom of our plates and they were icy cold beneath the meat.
Our parish friends and neighbors told like tales. Too bad, we were all trying to patronize where are own young Piper, Ward, Sumner, KCKCC, St. Mary, and Donnelly students from our families and neighborhoods worked at one time. Plenty of them did well when it first opened, then the meager hours/tips went crappy.
Applebee's: Where the menu changes three times a week but the faint aftertaste of vomit doesn't.
ReplyDelete@4:52 - I'm friends with TKC. Been with this blog long before you turned up. The blog you're commenting on. I helped build it.
ReplyDeleteAs for your "tough steak" joke, it's only half written. Finish it and come back with a final draft them we'll take a read.
You mean 5:19 is the half-assed jokester.
DeleteThat doofus ascribes me,4:52 as TKC/Xalti...and is mistakenly ASSuming.
The streetcar is Kansas City's Waterloo
ReplyDeleteFrom the Pitch story:
ReplyDelete"Most of that (government incentives) came under what was then the Missouri Quality Jobs program. The incentive allows companies to retain employee withholding taxes for itself."
Kansas does the same thing. Think about that for a moment: You're an employee, and pay your state income tax to the boss, who gets to KEEP it!
How fucked up is that? How can it even be constitutional and legal in the United States? Sounds like something they do in fucking Russia or Uzbekistan or some such shithole country.
How can ANYBODY be so desparate for a job that they work under those circumstances? Here's the deal, kids: Get the hell out of Missouri and Kansas! Move to a blue state! Working people are the lowest form of life there is to the shitheels who run these backward Bible Belt states.
as always nobody wants to to live or do business in a state that doesn't have its NIGGERS under control.
ReplyDeleteBlack lives splatter
Shame that Kansas City keeps letting these corporate pimps exploit their workers and the tax base.
ReplyDeletexalti, being friends with TKC is not exactly something you should be bragging about.
ReplyDelete"I helped build it."
You must be very proud.
^^^^^^^ bullshit
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of reasons to move to CA. Cost of doing business isn't one of them. This wasn't a case of Missouri or KC in particular being too tax heavy (though they are, in general).
ReplyDeleteWisdom @6:44 - Winner best comment of the thread.
ReplyDeleteApplebees food tastes like dog shit! and my dog will eat anything ..but Applebees
ReplyDeleteDon't let the door hit you where the good lord split you
Tony trolling and spamming his own blog like a mofo. Funny.
ReplyDeleteI don't blame any company or people for that matter of leaving KC, I am still kicking myself for moving here when I could've had Dallas suburb's. But family over ruled me at the time and to make matters worse we moved into Kansas City! The tax upon tax just sickens me and to see wasted money like the toy train!
ReplyDeleteNo wonder the rate of teens committing suicide in this city is high
there is nothing to live for in this shit hole.
Anyone reading this heres a tip: don't plant your roots here! Meaning a house and job and wife and all move out to a city that has something going for it.
Liar^^^^^^. You are alone in a midtown apt. Poor you.
ReplyDeleteIt's HQ is is OVPK,KS. 107th and Roe.
ReplyDeleteApplebee's --- the new Bennigans
ReplyDeleteI can not wait until the City of Kansas City moves its' headquarters to Johnson County Kansas. For the tax incentives!
ReplyDeleteIf a good number of your good, corporate employees, are being robbed, raped, stolen from and otherwise accosted by these fucking NIGGERS. Wouldn't you look elsewhere for a corporate office, that's not under siege? Faced it, Kansas City has become third world and the rest of the country looks like an oasis in comparison. No, Appleby's made the right choice and soon, there'll be others. Just watch.
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