Another benefit from my grand jury service over the summer of 2024, which became a running joke among the other jurors, was what I did each day when we took a lunch break. I don’t usually spend that much time in court, so my daily routine was tremendously interrupted for weeks at a time and during lunch, we seldom ever had time to eat a packed lunch, so I got into the habit of going to the McDonald’s across the street from the courthouse in downtown Hamilton to get a large Coke and a large Fry for a snack. It was easy for me to get that kind of food and quickly take it back up to my desk to eat while we listened to testimony and examined evidence. It’s not the most healthy thing to do in the world, but it was a way for me to bring a little fun to my life when there was so much negativity. And the other jurors got a kick out of it, even when some of the afternoon cases were horrendous murders, and we had to look at crime photos of the carnage and hear from people in testimony who had gone through likely the worst thing in their life. I enjoyed my French Fries and a Coke each day. But what I didn’t enjoy was getting the food. I picked that dietary expression because I didn’t want a complicated order that involved overeating food; I wanted it easy and convenient because sometimes we had a half hour for lunch, an hour, but sometimes it was as short as 15 minutes, it depended on whatever was going on that day. But I didn’t want to wait long for the food, so I made it easy. The food I got couldn’t get my fingers all messy because I often ate it while writing things down and talking to others.
So, speed was not fully displayed at the McDonald’s in downtown Hamilton. Out of the weeks that I was on the grand jury, I went to that particular McDonald’s well more than twenty times, and there wasn’t a single day where they were prepared for a lunch rush as the primary food option across the street from the Butler County Courthouse. Not only are all the employees who work at the courthouse, which includes police officers and security, tempted to get lunch at McDonald’s, but so are all the residents who have to interact with the court. So it’s a jam-packed store that sometimes has to push out a lot of food. Now I know something about fast food restaurants; for many years, like the first two decades of my adult life, I worked full-time second jobs to make extra money my family needed. Some jobs were at McDonald’s, Wendy’s, and Frisch’s. I know what lunch and dinner rushes look like and how they must be staffed behind the scenes, away from the customer experience. One of my offerings at these places was that I always handled pressure well and quickly. I was often able to control two or three-line positions all by myself, which was an incredible benefit to them, and to say the least, I learned a lot. One of these places was Wendy’s, known as “The Beach” location; it’s now a Mexican restaurant. It was often understaffed because of the area. There were many places for people to work, so this restaurant location was always in competition to acquire good employees. The critical store was at the Fields Ertle location just south along I-71, which took up most of the prime labor, leaving The Beach to be perpetually understaffed but at times, one of the busiest stores in all of Cincinnati.
To make matters even worse during these years, I was going through horrendous personal circumstances, including individual lawsuits against me, political problems that involved my stance against drug dealers that got me into a lot of trouble in my community as we lived in Mason, and some cops were making money running cover for drug dealing and I had taken a stance against that. And my wife and I only had one car for several years because of all these problems. So, I rode a bicycle everywhere so my wife could have a vehicle for our kids to get back and forth to school because we wouldn’t let them ride the bus with a bunch of loser kids with severe behavioral problems. So I don’t want to hear about anybody’s problems. I’ve been there and managed through them just fine and experienced the worst that can come to a human being. However, the store by The Beach Water Park, closest to Kings Island, was busy during the summer months and required fast employees. We had many call-offs, so I would typically cover the entire food line for the dining room and the drive-thru all by myself. Nobody was faster than me in Cincinnati. So, with that eye, I was very critical of McDonald’s in Hamilton, Ohio, which had a staff that never seemed too inclined to make sure the customers were serviced quickly and efficiently, or at times, even at all. They gave off a pretentious feeling that we were lucky they were at work. And it displayed several problems that I see in other places as well. The service world has never recovered from the dumb protocols of Covid, and three years later, a fast food store like McDonald’s still had trouble recruiting employees to staff all their needed positions, and when they were short on labor, they would close their dining room and just put their efforts onto the drive-thru. Something that no restaurant would have dared do leading up to COVID-19. But after, it was a common practice.
This labor problem holds in almost every field; many employees in large companies still work from home, or so they are trying. Very progressive companies who are controlled by Democrats at BlackRock and other financial monstrosities have greatly empowered the slack-jawed losers of the world who are lazy and unambitious and have put them in charge of labor, and the effects are horrendous. I usually don’t interact with fast food restaurants these days, as my wife usually gets us food from those places, but I’m too busy to get it myself. So only because I was at court all those days did I see how this particular McDonald’s operated compared to what I have experienced in the past few decades through my efforts. They had terrible management there, and the employees had a presentation of self-importance from the staff feeling lucky to have employees. If I were ordering anything more complicated than French Fries and a Coke, the wheels of that place would entirely fall apart. What had changed was the fast food approach to work, not the demand, and that happened because of the introduction of poor workplace conduct with the COVID protocols. Like most industries, the pin-headed lazy losers of the world had made inefficiency normalized through a rules-based society, and the impact was a much less “capitalist” world. It’s precisely what is happening with Elon Musk and the FAA. The same types of people sink production in every industry, from space flight to getting fries during grand jury testimony. And it’s a problem that has to be fixed for good with the prosecution of those who brought us COVID-19 and told us to socially distance, wear a mask, and work from home. Those policies intentionally destroyed our economic viability, and people still need to pay for them three years later. Because the Hamilton McDonald’s in Butler County, Ohio, has never recovered. And the slow food by a bunch of dope-smoking, slack-jawed losers who work there is a crime against humanity and a treasonous attack against the sovereignty of the United States. And can’t be endured.
Rich Hoffman
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