A Texas restaurateur who owns 13 Dairy Queens is suing the Labor Department, alleging it doesn't have the authority to set salary thresholds for overtime exempt workers.
Robert Mayfield hopped out of his branded 1953 red Chevy and strode into the Dairy Queen on Manor Road, one of his 13 franchise locations scattered across the Austin area. Inside, he twirled the tip of a vanilla soft serve cone into a loop, then held it up to his face, peering through the "eye of the curl," as he called it. Mayfield's father gave up life as a struggling cowboy and opened the family's first Dairy Queen in the late 1940s.
" His strategy appears to be paying off. Thousands of fast food joints line the roads across the Lone Star State, but in Austin, Mayfield Dairy Queens stand apart from the rest. Customers often describe their first trip to a Mayfield DQ with a sense of wonder or pleasant bafflement. The restaurants are clean, the service is fast and, above all, the employees are "cheerful to the point that I was confused the first time I went," as one Reddit commenter put it.
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