Victory for the little man - Supermacs v McDonalds

Ray Palmer

mr_edge_to_you wrote: »

I worked in a Supermacs in college. You'd be working from 6pm to 4:30am and you'd get a 30 minute break and a 15 minute break - both unpaid. Same would apply for 8am to 6pm.

I remember having the weekly deduction for uniforms.

Conditions were pretty poor overall - eventually premium payments for Sunday and Bank Holidays came in.

You don't get paid for lunch time in office jobs either.

Had to pay for my uniforms in the 80s so not new

I worked in a bar that did food and there was no discount or free food for staff.

elefant

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

On a similar note didn't O'Neills sportswear win a case against Adidas once?



A Passing off offence on the three stripe design.


Hard to believe Adidas lost that tbh.

That case confirmed O'Neills could use three stripes on sportswear in Ireland, as they had been putting stripes on their stuff long before Adidas were around.

However, you will only find O'Neills clothing with three stripes within Ireland. International GAA teams all have 2 stripes on their jerseys, for example. Adidas still holds the trademark for 3 stripes outside of Ireland.

Woke Hogan

Disgusting slop. Either way this would only have been a victory for peddlers of fried animal effluent. Fast food restaurant owners are merchants of death, laughing as they piss in the trough and us obsequiously thanking them for the pleasure.

Ray Bloody Purchase

Woke Hogan wrote: »

Disgusting slop. Either way this would only have been a victory for peddlers of fried animal effluent. Fast food restaurant owners are merchants of death, laughing as they piss in the trough and us obsequiously thanking them for the pleasure.

Would you like fries with that bad attitude?

Woke Hogan

Ray Bloody Purchase wrote: »

Would you like fries with that bad attitude?

I don't eat that ****e.

ginandtonicsky

I wondered when Supermacs were going to get a move on and expand outside of Ireland and into Europe, the UK would be an easy sell with the nostalgic expat market alone.

tomoliver

ginandtonicsky wrote: »

I wondered when Supermacs were going to get a move on and expand outside of Ireland and into Europe, the UK would be an easy sell with the nostalgic expat market alone.

Might not be that great over there

Surely he'd have gone to UK by now if he wanted to

RMAOK

ginandtonicsky wrote: »

I wondered when Supermacs were going to get a move on and expand outside of Ireland and into Europe, the UK would be an easy sell with the nostalgic expat market alone.

Wasn't there talks of them opening in Australia for the same reason. Or maybe they already have

I suppose other than the UK, somewhere like Spain would be a good place for supermacs to go on account of the number of Irish who go there on holiday

DEFTLEFTHAND

elefant wrote: »

That case confirmed O'Neills could use three stripes on sportswear in Ireland, as they had been putting stripes on their stuff long before Adidas were around.

However, you will only find O'Neills clothing with three stripes within Ireland. International GAA teams all have 2 stripes on their jerseys, for example. Adidas still holds the trademark for 3 stripes outside of Ireland.

Thanks for that elefant, I wasn't sure of the full facts of the case.

I remember shortly afterwards Adidas attempted to get involved in the GAA market, they provided the Kerry inter county kit for a couple of seasons.

I wonder was this just to spite O'Neills.

tomoliver

Who's the cheapest and best for burger and chips

McDonald's don't seem to do curry

Stephen15

If there were copyright issues with the Supermacs name why do they have branches in the North as they have one in Derry. Also if they want to have an international presence first maybe grow their presence in Dublin they don't have any restaurants in any of the major Dublin shopping centres for example such as Dundrum, Blanch, Tallaght, Liffey Valley or Pavillions.

Grab All Association

Stephen15 wrote: »

If there were copyright issues with the Supermacs name why do they have branches in the North as they have one in Derry. Also if they want to have an international presence first maybe grow their presence in Dublin they don't have any restaurants in any of the major Dublin shopping centres for example such as Dundrum, Blanch, Tallaght, Liffey Valley or Pavillions.

Those branches/franchises probably opened up before McDonald’s registration of trademarks or maybe McDonald’s feared backlash/boycott from nationalists if they had tried to prevent an expansion of Supermacs outlet in Northern Ireland.

Dakotabigone

How can someone eats supermacs every day.

Grab All Association

Grab All Association wrote: »

Those branches/franchises probably opened up before McDonald’s registration of trademarks or maybe McDonald’s feared backlash/boycott from nationalists if they had tried to prevent an expansion of Supermacs outlet in Northern Ireland.

They probably don't know it exists!