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They’re known affectionately as the "DQ Sisters” — Patty DeMint and Michelle Robey, siblings who pooled their money to fulfill their dream of opening a Dairy Queen franchise in Meaford, New York, in 2017.In the beginning it was all soft serve and sprinkles as the pair fostered a beloved community hub while going above and beyond for their employees — anything from offering money in times of need to delivering Christmas presents to their workers’ children. They also earned a reputation for hiring locals looking for a second chance. “Whether you are a felon, whether you are misplaced, whether you are 80 years old, whether you are 14 years old,” DeMint told CBS News (1), “everyone needs a place to call home as far as a job goes." But then, in 2019, the ice cream hub hit a rocky road when a former employee filed a lawsuit against the sisters for violating a vague, Depression-era New York state law. Suddenly, DeMint and Robey faced a $6 million lawsuit that threatened to bankrupt them and shutter their shop. New York's Frequency of Pay law (2) requires “manual workers” to receive their pay on a weekly basis. It’s a law that the sisters said they’d never heard of, which is why they paid their employees biweekly — a process that they said was never flagged by anyone, including during an audit conducted by the state’s Department of Labor.Robey told CBS that the lawsuit was “ridiculous,” adding, “we knew we paid every employee every dime that they were owed." But her sister noted that the former employee, who’d been laid off, “would say all the time, 'I'm gonna get you, I'm gonna get you,' and she did.”Ultimately, the lawsuit, which included accusations of withholding wages and overtime pay, became part of a trend of lawsuits against New York businesses, according to CBS, filed by law firms that solicited, through ads on social media, claimants who were paid biweekly.

 The sisters, who worried that they may lose their business and possibly their homes as a result of the lawsuit, ended up settling out of court for $450,000. Yet, after lawyers took their share, former employees only collected about $200 each, reported CBS.“The lawyers structured it so they would get 1/3 of the larger payment,” Robey told Trihamlet News (3).“The employees are getting pennies on the dollar, which is further proof that these lawsuits don’t help the employees, they help the lawyers.”
NY sisters who own DQ franchise hit with $6M lawsuit for paying workers every 2 weeks — they helped change the loophole but it was too late for them

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Blackvegetable » 7 minutes ago » wrote: ↑7 minutes ago
Very simple questions...

From which you are running...

Vegas » 10 Oct 2025, 12:29 pm » wrote: ↑

10 Oct 2025, 12:29 pm

In short, two sisters bought into a DQ franchise. The community loved them because of how generous they were to their employees, the community, and even felons. They gave people who needed jobs a second chance. Their employees loved them. Every year they bought the children of their employees xmas presents. So...how does their good deeds get thanked? By being sued by a disgruntled employee for 6 million dollars. She was laid off, probably because she was an ungrateful loser. She said that she was going to get them. She went the lawyers and the lawyers found some loophole where New York law says that businesses must pay weekly. Not biweekly. Not one business every heard of that. 

So they had to settle out of court. They have a gofundme page because they are on the verge of bankruptcy. The lawyers took a third of the 450k they settled with. The DQ employees are getting laid off because they can't afford them anymore. The lawyers got rich. The ungrateful loser got her revenge. And the two pillars of society will go bankrupt.

Vegas » 10 Oct 2025, 12:29 pm » wrote: ↑

10 Oct 2025, 12:29 pm

In short, two sisters bought into a DQ franchise. The community loved them because of how generous they were to their employees, the community, and even felons. They gave people who needed jobs a second chance. Their employees loved them. Every year they bought the children of their employees xmas presents. So...how does their good deeds get thanked? By being sued by a disgruntled employee for 6 million dollars. She was laid off, probably because she was an ungrateful loser. She said that she was going to get them. She went the lawyers and the lawyers found some loophole where New York law says that businesses must pay weekly. Not biweekly. Not one business every heard of that. 

So they had to settle out of court. They have a gofundme page because they are on the verge of bankruptcy. The lawyers took a third of the 450k they settled with. The DQ employees are getting laid off because they can't afford them anymore. The lawyers got rich. The ungrateful loser got her revenge. And the two pillars of society will go bankrupt.

jerrab » 10 Oct 2025, 2:26 pm » wrote: ↑

10 Oct 2025, 2:26 pm

come  to my area. a dq qould get a lot of business. especially one near a neighborhood.

So, let's recap the Ignorance here...shall we.

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Then he posted....Grifty was the entire reason gas went to 4.50 this year.

MR-7 » 10 Oct 2025, 2:48 pm » wrote: ↑

10 Oct 2025, 2:48 pm

There is a reason there is no DQ in your area. It's really that simple.

Please seat yourself.



I like the very things you hate.

DeezerShoove » 10 Oct 2025, 6:10 pm » wrote: ↑

10 Oct 2025, 6:10 pm

DQ's don't set up shop next to check cashing and bail bond joints.

chase me

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I live rent free in your mind

MR-7 » 10 Oct 2025, 2:48 pm » wrote: ↑

10 Oct 2025, 2:48 pm

There is a reason there is no DQ in your area. It's really that simple.