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Ok, I'll explain what I got from the article 
* Economic incentives. Heavily subsidized companies or government agencies get paid no matter what happens. A private company like Waffle House has to be open and serve its customers to get paid. |
government agencies are not for-profit entities & have responsibility over public safety without a profit motive. Would the public be safer if the govt tried to profit by underpreparing for a hurricane?
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Bloomberg applied the classic let's-hide-inside-the-castle-at-the-first-sign-of-danger approach while Waffle House's risk management plans focus on flexibility. Each one of the Waffle House stores is (or was) in a different situation. Waffle House focuses on maximizing the output (services) of each Waffle House store based on each store's potential and situation (and had a flexible network in place to do so), Bloomberg focused on reducing exposure everywhere at the cost of providing services.
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again, comparing responsibility for public safety with keeping a restaurant chain open is folly. waffle house does not worry about cars driving over bridges with 75 mph wind gusts. does not worry about flooding subway cars. does not worry about people living in flood zones. Waffle house worries about eggs & power being at a store. absurd to compare these things like waffle house is doing something right & the govt is doing something wrong by exercising abundant caution over a forecasted category 2 hurricane.
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One could even argue that Waffle House's image would suffer even more than the mayor's if anything happened to a Waffle House employee while serving waffles.
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Waffle house was not keeping stores open throughout the hurricane & was not putting their employees lives at risk. I would suggest the mayor of NY would get a lot more flack for being unprepared vs a waffle house not having eggs.
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- The size of the organization doesn't matter. Whether it's one of the biggest cities in the world or a chain of waffle stores. If anything, that large city probably has a lot more resources than a chain of waffle stores.
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yes, the city of manhattan has more resources then a waffle chain. Nobody died because the mayor neglected to do his job. He gets an A. Waffle house was able to function when other restaurants could not. They get an A as well.
so the subways opened at 5AM monday instead of noontime sunday. What a fucking failure...