bubye... LOLOL!!! 100%
Posted on 09/10/2015 3:55:49 PM PDT by Libloather
New York state APPROVES $15 minimum wage for fast-food workers...the first time ANY state has set it that high
New York state will gradually raise the minimum wage for fast-food workers to $15 an hour — the first time any state has set the minimum that high.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration formally approved the increase Thursday — a move the Democratic governor announced at a labor rally with Vice President Joe Biden. Cuomo said he will work to pass legislation setting a $15 minimum for all industries — a promise that comes as more and more cities around the country move toward a $15 minimum wage.
'Every working man and woman in the state of New York deserves $15 an hour,' the governor told the enthusiastic crowd of union members. 'We're not going to stop until we get it done.'
Biden predicted the $15 wage for fast-food workers would galvanize efforts across the country.
'You're going to make every single governor in every single state in America look at themselves,' he said at the rally in New York City. 'It's going to have a profound impact.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
We are on the west coast and our newly remodeled McDonald’s has them. Hubby loves them.
bubye... LOLOL!!! 100%
pretty much
Shut ‘em down...Buy stuff at the store and pack your lunches. Send all the Mexicans back to Mexico by taking away all those fast food jobs....
yup, and you know this one's next 
Here is central North Carolina my guess is that 75% of fast food workers are Hispanic....
Sounds unconstitutional
Government forcing unequal conditions for one job/industry over another?
they'll spread like wildfire now
Those were the Automats—not luncheonettes. What a treat for a child to get cherry jello with real whipped cream on top. I was too young to pay but it may only have been 5 cents.
Meanwhile, New York State has been running commercials in Colorado saying NY was “business friendly”. Yeah. Right.
No, sadly, they tend to go to southern states to drag their socialist crap with them. :/
Cuomo and the rest of these pikers make me sick. These people can’t make it on $15/hour. What’s wrong with $75/hour?
What do you expect out of a Governor who rammed through a law mandating no more than “7 bullets in a clip” because “no one needs 10 bullets to kill a deer!”
Restaurants will cut back on the number of employees...the remaining will work harder.
They will automate some jobs away
They will raise prices while simultaneously imposing a NO TIPS rule... thus patrons pay the same...just no tips to employees
I heart NY ... lol
“’You’re going to make every single governor in every single state in America look at themselves,’ he said at the rally in New York City. ‘It’s going to have a profound impact.’”
Profound impact indeed. Haven’t these bozos noticed how many restaurants have already closed in Seattle?
Fast food has a very small profit margin. I heard 4% but don’t quote me on that.
So if you raise minimum wage, they have to do something to offset that expense. They have few options...
Raise prices. Customers will go somewhere else. Or stay home and cook dinner.
Reduce portions (and probably quality) to reduce overhead. (probably already done long ago)
Lay off workers until their typical monthly payroll cost is back to what it was before minimum wage went up.
Yep, you got it. Lay off people is the one they’ll pick every time. Historically proven to be what happens in every business when minimum wage is increased by a large margin.
According to news articles I’ve seen so far, after Seattle raised their minimum, plenty restaurants closed their doors. With such a low profit margin it’s impossible to stay n business. One fellow I saw interviewed said he had immediately closed a dozen of his franchises so he wouldn’t go bankrupt. He’s going into either another business or other states.
Then there’s the automation option, already being developed with lots of support from fast food.
I don’t really care, I stopped going to any fast food places around 20 years ago, when both Burger King and Wendy’s hamburgers went to hell. Never did go to Mickey D’s, I hate the place. Went there twice around 1970, got sick as a dog both times, never went near the place again.
I haven’t yet heard of a FF place that allows tips. So that is moot.
As long as it is a state doing this I have no problem. The Federal minimum is the one that bothers me more.
Increasing min wage to 15/hr is lot but not really if you adjust it backward for inflation. Right now to match the historical average then min wage should be over 10/hr now.
None of the fed. gov’t business what anyone makes for wages..
Fed gov’t is UP the citzens bung hole..
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