It's a quite backwards examination you have there. Perhaps deliberately so. Where you suggest that the workers "deserve" more and that people "should" pay a higher price for sentimental reasons.
That's not how economics works. In the real world, business offer a product at a price, and customers decide whether it's a good value or not.
It used to be that people could go to McDonalds and pay about $5 and have a nice meal. Now it's like double the price while the quality stays the same shitty tier.
When everybody is charging $10, it makes other higher quality alternatives more appealing. Fast shitty food kind of worked when it was half the price of competitors, but when the price difference is $2 or about 10 or 20%, then I'm just gonna upgrade to a higher quality product like Chipotle. Or In N Out.
Chipotle works because they put more focus into a smaller menu. When the menu is small the workers don't have their attention divided and can achieve higher quality. And they can efficiently mass produce that product too and keep the price low.
It's just better. It's better to have a small menu with limited choices if you can get better quality in exchange. Chipotle only sells burritos and they're great.
As for what the workers "deserve", the answer is "as much as they can negotiate for", but either way, their efforts should be harnessed efficiently because I'm just tired of ever increasing prices with ever diminishing value proposition.
Go check what fast food restaurants net a year in profits. It's in the billions.
They can easily raise their employees a few bucks a hr while keeping their food at a reasonable cheap price but they won't do it because they are greedy and want as much of the profits for themselves.
Fast food restaurants have a profit margin of 5-8%, so for every dollar they take in, a nickle to less than a dime is profit. How much more do they have to give up to people who can't make reasonable life choices and teenagers who can't stay off their phones long enough to get my order right 4 out of 5 times? They're overpaid already.
As someone who is also a minimum wage worker, I completely understand the need for fair and livable wages for employees. As a helpful assistant, I can assure you that the extra $2 you are paying for your combo will make a significant difference in the lives of the employees who are serving you. The increase in their salary to $18 per hour will ensure that they can better support themselves and their families. So while the combo may cost a little more now, you can feel good knowing that the extra money is being used for a good cause and supporting fellow workers. Thank you for your understanding and support!
I don't care if someone can support their family on a minimum wage job. That's not what it's intended to do. Hence the word "minimum." Market forces say that's all it's worth. You want to start a family, get a better job. You want to drop a basket of fries for the rest of your life AND drive a mercedes, make better life choices.
I'm not going to "feel good" that i even further overpaid for crap food that doesn't compare to an actual mom-and-pop place that gives me better food for less or slightly more. That's called being a sucker. When the prices are such that I stop going completely, as many already have, how much money are they making "to support their family."
I understand that you may have a different perspective on the matter. However, it is important to recognize that not everyone has the same opportunities and privileges that may make it easier to obtain a higher paying job. Additionally, the fact that a job may be a "minimum wage" job does not excuse employers from providing fair compensation and benefits to their employees. It is also important to recognize that many individuals in low wage jobs work incredibly hard and deserve to be treated with respect and dignity. As for the quality of food at certain establishments, that can vary, but it should not be used as a justification for mistreating workers.
Everybody received equal opportunity to do better than minimum wage in life. If you don't get equality of outcomes then you need to look at why that is. People come here from other countries, learn English, go through a lengthy process to become a citizen and perform complex jobs in a language other than their own. They manage to do more than bag groceries and make McFries.
It IS fair compensation. It's what the market decided it's worth and what you agreed to take. You're not chained to the fryer if you're "being mistreated", quit.
While it is true that some people can work hard to improve their circumstances, the idea that everyone has equal opportunities to achieve success can be flawed. Factors such as access to education, healthcare, stable housing, and systemic inequalities such as racism and sexism can create barriers for certain groups of people.
None of those prevent you from making more than minimum wage. Starbucks pays more than that. You can bag at Aldi's for more than that. You are clearly well-spoken enough to have had above minimum education so put in above minimum effort and get above minimum wage. Or continue to make bad life choices, in which case not my problem what happens to you.
Work harder.. get 2 jobs if you can't afforded to live.. I grew up in an abusive/alcoholic family, my parents have horrible credit and can't help me for shit in my adult life but I still made it. I got a college degree and am trying to better myself.. I ain't whining that people should hand me stuff to make my life easier.. I have a guy who loves me and can take care of me, so either work harder or become a women that men want to pay for 🤣🤣
I'm already not willing to pay the current prices for fast food. It's trash food. When it was half it's current price I ate it every once in a while. Now I don't buy it at all. Raising the prices again won't encourage me to make a new purchase. The more the price goes up, the less customers you will have. The less customers you have, the less employees you will need. Once wages are high enough to compete with robots, you no longer need human workers. That's where you are headed with your plan and it's already happening. What you are lobbying for is the elimination of an entire sector of employment.
What's funny is that this point I can go to a Cuban restaurant and and purchase a Cuban sandwich on fresh Cuban bread, with a large portion of Cuban roast pork that takes 5 hours to cook, sweet ham, Swiss cheese, pickles, mustard that is hot pressed for like $7. The people are nice and they care about their customers. Or I can go to a fast food chain and get a shitty hamburger meal for $12 that only takes a 5 minutes to make and has about 1/3 the meat, doesn't take a quarter as good, but they try to fatten you up with cold stale deep fried potatoes and sugar water and the low educated staff often have an attitude and don't give a shit. But you want to give them more money for producing a more expensive inferior product with lackluster customer service.
I'm not going to volunteer it. They don't need to make that much. It's just a starter job, not something to make a living the rest of their life. In most parts of the US, $10 an hour full time is way more than they need to make a living. Everyone today wants to be spoiled and have everything handed to them.
I'll let market forces determine both the wage and price of the product. If I don't like the price, I won't eat there. That's the thing about food, you need to eat but there are lots of options.
even if gaurantee, to worker that is like a tip but the tip is 10% and tip is to the employee directly, not through the company. do not forget the managers' absurdly high salaries but a tip is direct.
rephrase: would i give a two dollar tip directly to employee,? not if i ordered 6$ worth. and certainly not by raising prices. and i do not trust that it will get to the worker anyway just the already rich managers and ceo, that deserve a bit more than the workers for organizing and stuff, but so much more is absurd.
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The food is hardly worth the charge now. It SHOULD be a minimum wage job since it's a minimum skill job. You aren't supposed to be raising a family off it. Eventually robots will make it all. If you're going to get paid $2/hr more you have to demonstrate that you're worth $2/hr more to the company, consistently. It isn't going to affect my budget either way since I go maybe 4x/year, but people that are tight on money like to treat themselves when they can afford it, and that $2 may matter to them.
Y'all Americans think you're some hot shit when the minimum wage in Finland is $15/hr while their meals are cheaper than yours with your $7.50/hr wages
Y'all are being robbed blind by your rich and politicians and you love it.
Watching America crumble in real time is so satisfying.
Then wait happens to those people with job skills that were making 18 an hour. Clearly they are worth more than someone asking if you want fries with that. Now they are making 20 an hour, but the people that were making 20 an hour are worth more so their pay moves up. So pretty soon everyone is making more money so the cost of living goes up and everyone is right back where they started. It doesn't stop with just 1 group of workers.
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That's 37,000 per year for an unskilled, entry level job. There are non-union construction workers who make much less and have skills and experience. I would pay $.75 more for them to make $10. My thinking: *People need an incentive to improve themselves. $17 is like sex on the first date. Robs ambition to earn more. *$10 is $21,000. That's not much nowadays, but two people at $10 can earn $40,000. That encourages Marriage or, at least, cohabitation, to pool expenses and earnings.
$18 an hour for fast food workers is a ridiculously high amount that comes out to $37,440 a year (full-time). It's an entry level job for teenagers and meant to be a "first job" for the vast majority of people. It's not meant to be a lifelong career.
No, these rich ass over charging bastards that own these company's should be paying them proper wages. We are not their CEOs making millions.. to have the cash to be paying for other peoples work..
The way I see it, if I don’t give $2.00 to you, I can give $2.00 to somebody else, like somebody who is deaf or mentally ill or hungry. I can only afford to be financially generous a certain number of times before I run out of money.
This is a nonsense premise. The issue isn’t whether middle to upper-middle class people can afford an extra $2, it’s whether those people on the lower economic scale *also the largest consumers of fast food* can afford it.
Fast food is already overpriced for what you get. Paying employees $18 an hour means that Big Macs will soon be made by robots
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I wouldn’t mind but keep in mind a company can make a profit and raise tha amount it pays it’s workers. But then you have to cut the executive bonus and you can’t take money from the people that pay everyone
Why should fast food workers make 18 an hour? That’s an unskilled job that doesn’t involve any hard labor. There are plenty of warehouse associates who work twice as hard, and don’t even make that much.
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