With Dunkin Donuts and Baskin ice cream business addition to the Inspire Brands, we face major overlap of corporate positions.
I wonder where we will see the layoffs happening and how the shared services will look like?
I hate to see Inspire teams to be affected since we need to please newcomers.
the most relevant brand is Arby's....
Arby's does things a little differently. According to an Arby's employee on a 2021 Reddit thread discussing the fast food items people should never order, the chain's sandwiches are made with "a compressed block of beef scraps." They went on to say that the block of scraps comes sitting in a bag of beef broth and is warmed under a lamp until it's ready to be served.
Jim Lowder, a Quality Assurance representative for Arby's, told Snopes in 2005 that the roast beef "consists entirely of Beef and a Self-Basting solution, which contains just enough water to keep the product juicy throughout our restaurants' 3-hour roasting process and during slicing." Whether that grosses you out or not, it's always good to know exactly where your food is coming from.
Yes inspire cut a lot of Dunkin positions which will soon make Dunkin just as irrelevant as inspire’s other brands. Seriously, all of their brands are mediocre at best.
Dunkins and Baskin’s international market is very confusing. Company just collects franchisee fees with no direct involvement. They basically sell the right to use the logos and marketing for all the products and supply chain is managed by a large international corporations. That is why you will see how much better products and variety in international market compared in the US . Plus remember that they do not own any stores and 100% franchisee owned. Also to add to the mix all supply chain is out sourced to National DCP - Which is another mystery private entity with no clear transparency. The speculation is the previous C levels and influential franchise owners are part of it. This is something that prevented previous mergers for Dunkin since nobody wants to buy the company without all owning the whole supply chain. Since DCP owners owners are only interested in the cost control, this led to some quality issues in the past. But no worries nothing that Paul cannot fix!
Probably due to their restaurant volume which is around 20k world wide I think. That would be my guess.
But I do agree the volume will need to be cut down and the remainder absorbed into shared services.
Dunkin headcount at the end of 2020 was around 1200 FTEs plus a a bunch of contractors. They also had significant Cognizant Engagement on the IT side. This is very far from inspire’s efficiencies
I doubt they'll see that number coming as I think that's more than half the work force up there. You think it'll be that many?
And yes, agreed about the salary bands.
Dunkin's and Baskin's functions will have to transition to already established Inspire Brands shared services platform. It is hard to envision them retaining their current headcount, especially elevated salary bands and titles which are not reflective of Inspire's. A few concessions were made, that that will be the extent of it. At the end of the day they will become a local service center with 200-250 at the max.
We'll know soon enough since the start of their reorg is this month, right?
No sure about layoffs, but so far all promotions were for Dunkin’ folks
Not too much of introductions, just a lot of sudden fast track promotions on Dunkin Donuts side.