Business Practice Argumentative Essay

Business Practice Argumentative Essay

Anisa Dominick Davis
Critical Thinking & Decision Making in Business
PHL-320

November 4, 2017

David Phillips

Business Practice Argumentative Essay

Week 2’s paper is a discussion on some previous business circumstances, where I saw room for development that may increase the cost of savings plus time management. This is important for better decisions for good continue of sales. Looking forward to correction of mistakes by local restaurants.

The Situation

At the beginning of the football season many football players decided to take a knee instead of the traditional standing for the National Anthem. This caused a lot of talk with everyone who watches football and who do not. Some local restaurants decided that as long as the local football team has members kneeing they will not show the football games. When they decided this some was under the impression that people would follow them. But that was not the case at hand, especially the restaurants in the black community that are not owned by blacks.   In a statement on the restaurant’s social media pages on Sunday, restaurant owner Brook Songy Anastasiadis wrote that the players’ protests during the anthem “will not be supported or praised at WOW.” (Houck, 2017).

The statement a made like the one from WOW was not liked. Melba’s is a restaurant in a black community and some statements from the restaurant owner was not appreciated especially with the facts that the only area this restaurant has only operated in is black. To be negative in that community and not support it where these people in the community has supported you for over 30 years of business.  McNulty  (2017), “This was not a smart discussion made on their behalf. The restaurant’s Facebook page lit up with angry comments, accusations of hypocrisy from a white-owned business based in a largely black neighborhood and calls to boycott Melba’s.”

Thinking of ways these two restaurants can make their businesses better to improve workflows. The first premise is to separate business views from personal views. As a business owner you have the right to say what you want, but in return the community does also. Choosing to not show the football games is your right but many customers may not feel the same way. The difference can be losing business not just on a Sunday, Monday, and Thursday that football is shown, but daily business too. The second premise is that as a business owner you think and consult a public relations firm before you make any statements at are personal and can affect the business.

First step is we have an open forum about the situation and talk to the customers or create a survey to see how it will affect the current business. Opening a conversation to the situation would open the owners’ eyes on how it would affect not just the business, but employee and customer relationships. When a business is making statements that affect the bottom line it will affect employees pay also.  

Second premise is to keep your personal feeling to yourself and not to introduce them into the business. These type of personal opinions have a way of causes more drama and ending a business before it will ever help it.