[SoFloFreeper]

Detroit. Classic.

Just saw this flash across NBC "news".

So hey, kids, wanna make $15 an hour flipping chicken patties? Move to Detroit. Let me know how that works out for ya.

[Bullish]

Yeah, I always wanted to pay $11.50 for a crappy take out burger.... It just feels like the right thing to do.

[albie]

Liberals are such sick people. It can’t be rationalized from a business stand point so they tell us how “human it feels”. Let’s see how “human” they feel when these little asswipes demand $20 p/h.

[llevrok]

well, seeing as most the residents there “earn” $50,000 a year in government benefits, they can afford the likely rise in the associated fast food prices.

[synbad600]

Stupid me. I had to college to work up to (and eventually exceed) that kind of wage.

[awaken2spirit]

I wonder if he will still feel human when he has to fire his employees when he goes out of business?

[Sherman Logan]

Partial compensation here is that they will be able to attract and keep the elite of the burger business workforce. The costs associated with constantly retraining a minimum-wage workforce are not inconsiderable. As are those associated with the constant screwups of inexperienced and don’t give a damn workers.

I used to train franchisees in an unrelated but even more labor-intensive business. IMO they could generally save money net by paying $2 or $3 above minimum wage so that they got the cream of the temporary worker group. Few of them ever believed me enough to try it, but those who did said I was absolutely right.

I have no problem with any of this as long as its voluntary. If they can’t remain competitive at the higher wage rate they’ll quickly be OOB.

[Gen.Blather]

I didn't see anything uber-liberal on their web page, but here's there list of articles: • August 29,2013 - Serial Eclectic "Cheeseburger Cheeseburger" • August 6, 2013 - Eater "A Shrewd Moo Cluck Moo Gets National News Attention" • August 5, 2013 – The Huffington Post “A Living Wage Fast-Food Joint" • August 2, 2013 – The Deaily Beast “A Fast-Food Joint Thrives, Even by Paying $12 an Hour” • June 15, 2013 - Metro Times Restaurant Review "A Better Burger" • June 12, 2013 - The Detroit News ​ "Look past obvious spots for new dining delectables" • June 13, 2013 - The Detroit News "Fast Food Eatery Invests in Workers With Higher Pay" • May 15, 2013 - Deadline Detroit "Review: Of All The Fast-Food Joints On Telegraph, Moo Cluck Moo Stands Out" • April 4, 2013 - The Detroit Free Press "Restaurant Plans Fresh Take on Fast Food"

[DeaconRed]

Probably has a SBA loan.
How long before they are broke & bankrupt?
Won't last a year. . . . .

[RC one]

iT will be fun to se ehow long it takes them to go out of business. and they will.

[gattaca]

I work in medical records and don’t make $15/hour. It’s nice to know flipping hamburgers is worth more than a person’s health information!!!

[RginTN]

Hope they have the customer base for this.

Businesses can’t print money to make payroll.

Maybe they have a wealthy sugardaddy to help out when business gets slow????

[Conspiracy Guy]

Why not $100.00/hr? That would be very human.

[bramps]

Yeah, but it’s 50 bucks to use the toilet.

[Slings and Arrows]

They’re doing it freely and of their own will. Best of luck to them.

[xzins]

It is this guy’s business. There could be good reasons for doing as he’s doing. For example, he might want to keep his help and not do the MacDonalds constant turnover of high school workers. What he gains is an experienced, trained, constant work force.

In any case, his decisions will cause the rise and fall of his business.

And that’s the point. It’s his business.

[arthurus]

At $15 hr at least the employer can be pickier about who he hires because the field will be larger. I suspect that racism, of course, has motivated the rise in wages there.

[afraidfortherepublic]

This is satire, right?

[Sherman Logan]

Has everybody forgotten about Henry Ford and the $5/day wage?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/03/04/the-story-of-henry-fords-5-a-day-wages-its-not-what-you-think/

[Sooth2222]

Moo-Cluck-Moo looks to be about 1/10 the size of the average McDonalds, and I appreciate that the restaurant's sign seems to be a cloth banner, not a real sign.

IIRC, the #1 business expense is usually wages. We'll see how long Moo-Cluck-Moo stays in business.

My guess is it won't make it a full year.

As for the general concept of low-skill/no-skill workers demanding $15/hour jobs -- technology has already solved that problem.

[kingattax]

why dont the dopes that own this joint pay their workers to stay home and not come to work at all ?

also why dont they give free food to anyone who walks in and asks for it ?

idiots.