They called the staff in at the end of the evening, and told them the restuarant was closing right then. We happened to eat there that particular evening, and nothing was out of the ordinary.

But you'd think Deen and her stupid fucking hick brother would avoid this given all of the bad press they've had.

assholes.

It's not nice, and we probably don't want to talk about it, but it has to do with the destructive and violent behavior of some unhappy ex-employees.

I wish it wasn't that way.

the fear excuse seems absurd as well as unsupported by actual fact. Why aren't they too afraid to fire anyone when they are still open? Makes no sense at all.

Sometimes employees need to be fired or they will ruin your business. There is always risk in this, but you can't close your business every time you fire an employee. Firing all of them (as in closing the business) increases the risk greatly, but has to be dealt with. The safest (least risky) way to do it is to abruptly close the business. Pprobably a good idea to have cops around at the time also.

I don't like it, but that's reality.

Sorry!!

This pic was close to the mark at least.

It just cracks me up now.

No, really i was going to grill chicken. Just an excuse to grill steaks now..whoo hoo

Some things once seen, cannot be unseen!!! I came very close to shooting Typhoo tea out of my nose!! And given the cost of international shipping, I would definitely let her know that seeing her naked ass almost led to disaster!!

Low class.

They did break the story after all and the public shaming and calls for boycotts have had the desired effect, they drove that old racist out of business.

It is as it should be.

Too bad about the employees I guess but at least they got their severance check.

That's more than some people get when a business slinks off in the middle of the night.

Paula Deen would be the perfect candidate for "Worst Person in the World."

I've had shit jobs but not bosses openly and proudly watching porn at work.

That doesn't touch on the abuse, institutionalized racism, and robbery imposed on the "customers" that I had to deal with.

How about indentured kidnapping? Walk out that door and you're out of a job, hours after the shift ended without notice?

Doesn't cover the drugs for clients bounties either. Nor the robbing of the government.

PORN??? Shit, who fucking cares about some porn?

abandoned the kitchen.

very sad that the owners couldn't have told the employees 4 weeks ago that they were going to close shop and if any of them wanted to stay til the end, it would be appreciated, but if any of them wanted to check out now they were welcome to do so and they would receive their severance and references.

but, that's the professional way of doing things, workplace violence be damned.

Paula Deen shutters Uncle Bubba’s — without bothering to tell her employees


"What’s more, she didn’t tell her employees but let them show up to work, only to find
kitchen appliances being removed from the restaurant. The Savannah Morning News
reported that employees were collecting their severance checks in the parking lot."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/04/04/paula-deen-shutters-uncle-bubbas-without-bothering-to-tell-her-employees/?tid=pm_pop

There's got to be more to this than Paula Deen's "defects of character" or Bubba's porn watching and employee abuses. I don't think they went out of business because the customers stopped approving of her views - 257 Chick-fil-A stores are proof of that.

And it sure as hell isn't because all the butter companies in America suddenly closed.

The Washington Post is reporting the employees came to work to find the equipment being removed. Paula Deen has recently suffered some severe financial setbacks - she's lost her television shows and endorsement deals. I get the impression she was using this restaurant for tax loss. Now that she doesn't have the big-money deals that enabled her to run a money-losing venture, she couldn't afford to pay the loans on her equipment and the bank sent someone over to pick it up.

It would have been nice if she would have warned the staff this could happen.

There may be some secret reason but Paula recently got $75million+ from a venture capital group to rebuild her brand. The fact that this restaurant was involved in the deposition which started her whole downfall probably has a lot to do with the investors wanting her to cut ties with it. The restaurant also got a few health code violations in March: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2582933/Hand-sink-used-dump-sink-Significant-health-code-violations-recorded-restaurant-run-Paula-Deens-brother-Bubba.html.

It is just better for her and Bubba's name to be linked in as few news reports as possible.