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I grew up working in my father’s seafood restaurants in Virginia Beach, VA. After college, I opened and operated a few small restaurants of my own. A few years later, my partners and I opened our first Taco Bell location in Harrisonburg, VA. Today, we own and operate 133 franchises across five states. Furthermore, BurgerBusters currently has an acquisition transaction pending that would add an additional 30 franchises to our already robust  system. BurgerBusters has [...]

All of us have been trained on speed and the T.R.E.D. system to bottleneck management. In fact over the years BurgerBusters Inc. has become one of the best as it pertains to speed in this region; however, the organization has been impacted by new products, the launch of fries, and significant sales growth. So far in 2018, the drive thru times have increased by over 14 seconds with over 30% of the stores over 5 [...]

There are many new developments in our Accounting / Finance department since our last newsletter. As of the first of the year, we have begun processing payroll in house for our Steak ’n Shake team, no longer outsourcing to a third-party provider. We are currently in the process of testing the payroll processing for BurgerBusters and hope to have this completely rolled out in the second quarter. With this will come new benefits such as [...]

Business abuse is defined as an unethical or illegal act which causes loss or harm to our company, our employees, or our customers.  Business abuse prevention is important to each of us as the continued success of our company depends on it. Examples of business abuse include, but are not limited to: Abuse of time cards or meal period Drug or alcohol abuse Giving free food or discounts to friends Filing false work-related injury claims [...]

2017 was another eventful and productive year for our company and the Facilities / Loss Control department was no exception. On the Taco Bell facilities side, we had 28 stores receive cold line upgrades, 10 stores have new parking lots paved, and 17 total Pepsi / ice machine equipment upgrades as well as countless other equipment and capital upgrades completed. With the new fry platform being pushed by corporate, BurgerBusters went ahead and met the [...]

BurgerBusters Inc. has zero tolerance towards incidents of workplace violence which include but are not limited to the following examples: disruptive behaviors such as yelling, using profanity, verbal abuse of others, waving arms / fists, and refusing reasonable requests. Threatening behaviors such as physical actions short of actual contact (moving closer aggressively), oral or written threats as well as implicit threats such as “you’ll be sorry,” “this isn’t over,” and “I better leave before I [...]