Technology appears to be everywhere. Red Robin, a popular sit down burger restaurant, has recently incorporated more open policies about employee tattoos and is paying their employees more while shifting their restaurant sizes down to more middle sized buildings, all the while having a rewards app. Many other popular restaurants are also jumping on the app bandwagon while beginning to embrace the tattoo and piercings and often criminal backgrounds of individuals. I read of one place in particular that actually sends automatic texts to its employees approximately a half hour before their shift begins. Talk about not having any reason to say you over slept.

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