Wuerth While Wily Wakenings: The US Restaurant Companies Had Total Stock Buybacks of $49 Bil in the First Three Years of the Trump Administration (2017-2019), Which Generally Helped Immensely Their Company Stock Prices and the Wealth of Both Their Executives and Their Stockholders. But Just How Have These Restaurant Companies Helped Their Employees and the Employees of Their Franchisees Who Have Both Been Paid Meagerly and Risking Their Lives in This Pandemic War-Like Work Environment. The US Congress Shouldn't Give a Dime of Additional US Taxpayer Money to Bail Out Restaurant Companies/Franchisors or Their Franchisees Until the Restaurant Company/Franchisor and Franchisee Both Economically Step Up to the Plate To Better Protect Their Own Employees and Also Reward Them With Healthy Combat Pay Incentives.

Thursday, April 9, 2020

The US Restaurant Companies Had Total Stock Buybacks of $49 Bil in the First Three Years of the Trump Administration (2017-2019), Which Generally Helped Immensely Their Company Stock Prices and the Wealth of Both Their Executives and Their Stockholders. But Just How Have These Restaurant Companies Helped Their Employees and the Employees of Their Franchisees Who Have Both Been Paid Meagerly and Risking Their Lives in This Pandemic War-Like Work Environment. The US Congress Shouldn't Give a Dime of Additional US Taxpayer Money to Bail Out Restaurant Companies/Franchisors or Their Franchisees Until the Restaurant Company/Franchisor and Franchisee Both Economically Step Up to the Plate To Better Protect Their Own Employees and Also Reward Them With Healthy Combat Pay Incentives.

From SEC filings, the below table shows the annual stock buybacks of many very popular publicly-held US restaurant chains for each of the three most recent fiscal years.

				Stock
	Stock	Stock	Stock	Buybacks
US Restaurant Corps	Buybacks	Buybacks	Buybacks	Three Years
Stock BuyBacks	FYE 2019	FYE 2018	FYE 2017	Combined
	mils $	mils $	mils $	mils $

Starbucks	10,222	7,134	2,043	19,399
McDonald's	4,976	5,208	4,686	14,870
YUM Brands	815	2,390	1,960	5,165
Domino's Pizza	699	591	1,064	2,354
Brinker Intl	168	303	371	842
Dunkin' Brands Group	30	680	127	837
Jack in the Box	138	326	334	798
Yum China Holdings	265	307	128	700
Darden Restaurants	208	235	230	673
Chipotle Mexican Grill	191	161	285	637
Wendy's Co	218	270	126	614
Bloomin' Brands	107	114	273	494
Papa John's Intl	-	158	210	368
Cheesecake Factory	51	109	123	283
Aramark	50	24	100	174
BJ's Restaurants	83	20	67	170
Dine Brands Global	110	34	10	154
Texas Roadhouse Inc	140	-	-	140
Ruth's Hospitality Group	26	19	24	69
Panera Bread	-	-	51	51
El Pollo Loco Holdings	48	1	1	50
Potbelly	4	23	13	40
Del Taco Restaurants	7	16	14	37
Fiesta Restaurant Group	14	3	-	17
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store	-	15	-	15
Chuy's Holdings	8	4	-	12
Performance Food Group Co	9	-	-	9
Carrols Restaurant Group	4	-	-	4
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers	3	1	-	4
RCI Hospitality Holdings	3	-	1	4
Nathan's Famous	1	-	1	2
Restaurant Brands	-	-	-	-
Shake Shack	-	-	-	-
Noodles & Co	-	-	-	-
Wingstop Inc	-	-	-	-

Totals	18,598	18,146	12,242	48,986