Hello everyone. Allow me to introduce myself, I'm an ex-employee of the Bub's Burgers & Ice Cream restaurant, and after working there for quite a long time, I'm here to show you all some of the inner workings of the restaurant.
Let me begin by saying, none of this is Hate Speech, nor is it an attempt to harass the company. This is me simply showing you all a bit more inside the company, and taking a look at Bub’s as well as its owner, Matt Frey.
To start off, I’m going to address the post made by u/slimeymoonlover. If you need context, I’d recommend checking out their post about the Bub’s Kitchen walkout. The kitchen and Upper management (Matt) had been arguing as the Kitchen felt they deserved more workplace benefits. Management refused so Kitchen arrived late for their next shift (about 3 hours late), causing the morning setup to be heavily delayed. Because of this, Bub’s had to turn down customers due to having nothing prepared, and they weren't actually ready to serve customers until late that day. I cannot say with certainty which side was at fault. However, this incident reflects only one of the broader problems I observed at Bub’s.
A comment I did notice, was stating Matt Frey was racist. I do not know this to be true. What I do know to be true, is Matt is a very Right Wing man. This isn’t a bad thing of course, we all have our own politics at the end of the day, but Matt may have taken it too far, as some of my old co-workers stated. As some of you know, Bub’s operates out of four locations, those being Bloomington, Carmel, Zionsville, and the Indy Airport. Matt’s main focus is Carmel (A much more richer and righter-wing city), as that’s the main money maker of his four operations.
However in recent years managers have come along, and being from Bloomington which is a Blue city, they had a more liberal mindset. Matt was ready to fire many of those managers simply for that reason. This “liberal mindset” includes acts such as;
- Standing up for Employees
- Asking for Fair Pay
- Questioning decisions made by upper management
And so many more horrible reasons!
I’m sure you can see the point from here. Matt is a person who takes politics into where he works, and it was never uncommon for him to cause employees to cry on shift.
Another thing I think should be discussed, and this one’s a doozy; HORRIBLE TASTE IN MANAGERS. As another comment stated in the original post, Bub’s has a habit of losing both employees and Managers left and right. This is due to a horrible work environment, being sick of upper management, or being arrested. That’s right, Bub’s managers have been arrested. One for Tax Evasion, and one for being the biggest Meth Distributor in Bloomington.
There were many problems at Bub’s, and I’m glad I left when I did. During my time there, I saw prices increase, portion sizes decrease, and servers receive blame for problems they could not control. These decisions have harmed both the workplace and the customer experience.
Anyone with questions about my personal experience at Bub’s may message me. Whether it be about hygeine incidents, the overworking, the clothes incident, or any rumors you want to know between fact and fiction, I'll answer them. However, I will distinguish between events I witnessed myself, information shared with me by others, and information documented in public records.
Finally, this post is not intended as an attack on the restaurant’s current servers or other hourly employees. The servers are hardworking people and should not be confronted or harassed over decisions made by management. I am sharing my experience to give people a better understanding of what I observed inside the red-brick building at 480 N. Morton St.
