The restaurant Kid Rock's was among several others in Nashville owned by the conservative restaurateur and Donald Trump supporter Steve Smith where undocumented kitchen staff were asked to go home to avoid rumored immigration raids this weekend.
The restaurant – whose full name is Kid Rock's Big donkey Honky Tonk Rock N' Roll Steakhouse, and is licensed by the rightwing musician Kid Rock, who has also become one of the US president's highest-profile supporters – reportedly found itself struggling to serve post-concert crowds on Saturday night after the order from managers instructing employees without legal status to leave, according to the Nashville Scene.
"Around 9.30pm on Saturday, our manager came back and told anyone without legal status to go home," one anonymous employee told the outlet.
"Events at the Ryman, Ascend, the Savannah Bananas' baseball game all let out, and it was crazy busy. But there was no one in the kitchen to cook the food."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/15/kid-rock-restaurant-ice-raids
Kid Rock licenses his name for the bar, it's actually run by a guy named Steve Smith who owns several Nashville bars.
https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithinthewind/lower-broadway-ice-sweeps/article_7840f5c5-fba5-447c-bb20-14016fc661aa.html (https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithinthewind/lower-broadway-ice-sweeps/article_7840f5c5-fba5-447c-bb20-14016fc661aa.html)
QuoteAt the instruction of managers, restaurant employees without legal citizenship status left the premises at The Diner, Honky Tonk Central and Kid Rock's Big donkey Honky Tonk Rock N' Roll Steakhouse during a primetime rush on Saturday night to avoid detention by ICE agents. Locations, already struggling to provide full service, suffered through at least Sunday due to fears from employees who did not want to risk arrest by returning to work.
Much like the restaurants and bars are owned by TC Restaurant Group licensing the names of various celebrities.
https://tcrestaurantgrp.com/ (https://tcrestaurantgrp.com/)
Quote from: patric on May 15, 2025, 05:22:19 PM"Around 9.30pm on Saturday, our manager came back and told anyone without legal status to go home," one anonymous employee told the outlet.
I have to respect that manager's choice. Unfortunately, it will probably get him/her fired.
We have 4.2% unemployment in the US while 4.3% of US jobs are unfilled. So we sit at 100.1% employment with most unfilled jobs being unskilled and most newly unemployed being IT/tech right now. They don't match.
As we are now actively deporting 4-5% of the workforce for being illegal, most of them being unskilled or doing skilled jobs like roofing that others don't want, jobs that we already can't fill, what is supposed to happen to the economy? Who works in meat packing? Who works the fields picking vegetables? Washes dishes in restaurants? Cooks our food? Cleans our houses?
Stitt is bringing in a $4 aluminum plant, and that's good and all, but do you want your kids working in an office or working a smelter for less money?
What are we doing?
None of this makes sense....