NeoTemplar
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- Jun 8, 2012
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Devils' advocate
In any business the proprietor has the right to decide what sells and doesn't sell. This owner based on his history is entitled to that right.
Where is it written that Dunkin donuts has the right to tell any franchise what they are to sell? Did the contract read sell what we say or out.
As an individual the proprietor runs the store based on precedent and not some new ruling. If rules can change easily any business could come under fire for not strictly adhering to some new arcane rule.
A good faith relationship over this much time should be respected if the owner's decisions do not in any sense reflect badly on the company. This would not.
Two areas intersect in this decision, religious respect and individual freedom, dunkin donuts is saying no Muslim (or other religion with similar traditions) can own a DD thus isolating and discriminating based only on religion. If I am in charge of a business why would I not be free to decide what products I wish to sell provided this decision is visible to all potential customers. Who are his customers. They should be decisive fact.
Even the business name implies one thing, and as a business the goal is sales and not enforcement of new and recent changes. Franchise decisions should be based on issues that critically reflect on DD company and in this case there is no clear reason why an owners decision could not be recognized as correct, in a tolerant society that recognizes differences of fundamental belief.
D&D Recognized that he wasn't making them as much money as the other chains who actually sold pork so they let him alone until it was time to renew the contract and created a new stipulation based on this fact, if they had actually taken his religion into account in these business proceedings that would be showing religious favoritism, hell they let him get away with it for 20 years before that.