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To me, there is a clear distinction between corporate food service and locally-owned food service. I waited tables for a couple of years in high school and the summer after my first year of college. Both were family-food type places (I wasn't old enough to serve booze), but one was corporate and one was owned by a local family. Completely different experiences--one required a dweeby uniform and adherence to a lot of rules, including no eating OR drinking anything you didn't pay for. The other was a lot more relaxed. If one of the cooks made too much food by mistake, someone would eat it. No big deal. We did pay for our meals on break, but the owners would rather feed us for free than waste food. And we got to drink all the Pepsi products we wanted--everyone just wrote their name on a to-go cup. There's a number of reasons why I prefer local restaurants to corporate chains--my experience definitely plays into it.
As for this poor bastard, I admit that Whole Foods was probably well within their rights to fire him. That isn't to say that I agree with it as a business practice or a moral issue--but that's how it goes.
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