""I always wanted to give back and just lift people up," DeMint tells Moneywise. "And then once they came into our DQ family, they were family. So if they were struggling, we struggled.""
""I was in that dark place where I was just ready to just put my hands up and say, 'I can't do this anymore,'" DeMint admits."
""I know that those are either my crew people or my customers," DeMint says, holding back tears. "It's hard right now out there. So for them to give that to (us), it's overwhelming ... it brought me back to where I needed to be, grounded in my efforts to pay it forward.""
Patty DeMint and Michelle Robey are Long Island siblings who operate a Dairy Queen and are known for kindness and generosity toward employees and customers. In June 2020 a former employee filed a class-action suit seeking $6 million under a Depression-era "Frequency of Pay" law requiring weekly pay for manual laborers, challenging the sisters' biweekly payroll. The sisters had not had the schedule flagged previously, including during a state Department of Labor audit. They settled the suit for $450,000, which strained their finances and spirit. An employee-created GoFundMe raised over $35,000 in mostly small donations, restoring their resolve to keep giving back.
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