Five Guys CEO says he gave his $1.5m bonus to his workers so he wouldn’t get shot in the back
by Ramon Antonio Vargas from World news | The Guardian on (#74HSZ)
Jerry Murrell seemingly alluded to healthcare CEO killing when he explained giving bonus to workers after bungled promotion
Five Guys' chief executive officer, Jerry Murrell, said he gave a $1.5m bonus to employees of his US-based burger restaurant chain because I didn't want anybody shooting me" after the company recently screwed ... up" a buy-one-get-one-free promotion.
Murrell didn't elaborate on the comment, which he gave to Fortune in an interview published on Wednesday - but it came a little more than a year after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot dead on a midtown Manhattan street in what was widely considered a murderous rebuke of the US health insurance industry's profit-driven practices.
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