[GeronL]

They don't have to work there. They can go out and get one of those awesome jobs that Obamaconomy has created elsewhere.

Yet I somehow don’t think that principle really applies to Micky Ds counterhelp.

Most of them are franchises and are not big businesses.

[snarkybob]

“Most of them are franchises and are not big businesses. “

They still have to pay the employees. I have to figure that if they got the money
together for the franchise they submitted a business plan and if that planned was only profitable by paying the lowest possible wages...they should go back to hiring HS kids.
If the employees are coming from some other labor pool besides HS kids working for extra money then the costs of labor are almost certainly going to go up.