Pizza Hut reinstates manager fired after refusing to open Thanksgiving

After being fired for refusing to open his restaurant on Thanksgiving, a Pizza Hut manager has his job back.

Tony Rohr, who worked his way up from cook to general manager at the company, was told it was mandatory to keep his Elkhart, Ind., store open on the holiday."I just decided I wasn't going to agree to it," Rohr said. "All of these people the whole year had been told they were going to have the day off."

Luckily for him, Pizza Hut stepped in and "strongly recommended" that the local franchise hire him back, saying the company respects "an employee's right to not work on a holiday.

Rohr said that in his 10 years with the company, this was the first time any location had asked him to work on Thanksgiving.

Many spots are opening in an effort to squeeze out extra sales from holiday shoppers.

"They just said it was a competitive decision and that everyone was open, so we will be too," Rohr added. "I said, 'Why can't we be the company that stands up and says we care about our employees, and let them have the day off?'"

Rohr said earlier that he had no regrets about pushing back.

"No, not at all," he said. "I'm glad I did that."