Posted on 09/04/2014 4:15:03 PM PDT by EveningStar
Sixty-one years ago last month, the third-ever McDonald's opened in Downey, Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles and home to Apollo, the third-ever NASA manned spaceflight program. McDonald's went to 119 countries from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Apollo went to the moon.
A man who witnessed much of this history is Ron Piazza, who owns the landmark McDonald's in Downey —the world's oldest-operating McDonald's— along with nine other golden-arched franchises in the area.
Piazza is something of a throwback. Plainspoken and serious, he is the type of business owner whose name and phone number are printed at the bottom of all the customer receipts...
"I started at a dollar an hour. Poverty is as severe as it was when I was making a dollar an hour. The minimum wage increase, frankly, hasn't reduced our poverty problem....
Do I think it’s fair that people live in poverty? Of course not. But I don’t know how you can say that business is responsible for that."
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Flipping burgers was never meant to be a career job or a family support. There are many other places an under educated person cam work and make more. Fast food is at or near the bottom of that list.
yup and if the fast food places keep on cheaping their food even more, nobody’s going to earn a living there b/c nobody will want to eat flavored cardboard and acrylic fries.
i’have given up on fast food pretty’much. you get what you pay for. i want real food. these no-skilled, high school floaters can go and bitch about nobody wanting to hire them.
We bring a million people per year LEGALLY too. Plus 700,000 on student visas and greencards.
... and lower price of oil and less taxation, all of which increase the costs of living.
I work for Johnson and Johnson as an Engineering tech and these people want to be paid more than entry level techs who have a technical education and experience in the military... riiiight
Know that MacD well.. it had the Speedy logo
Dam I was in Pico Rivera and then move to La Mirada.. Do you recall Cicero?
These SEIU union goon-wannabe’s gonna be twice as productive if they’re suddenly paid twice as much?
You guys are too hard on these wonderful employees that only want 15 an hour.
Shucks, flippin’ burgers is a harder job than a union leader can do, and even too hard for obama.
And obama makes even more money than that golfen’ and presidenten’ once in a while.
Thanks for posting the menu—I was trying to remember what McD served and the cost.
Going to McD was a “treat” and not a daily occurrence like it is for some today. Walking 3-4 blocks in the Wisconsin winter was a challenge and usually meant the food needed warming up after getting home.
Looked on Google Earth and the store we went to is still in the same spot—50+ years later.
Good point. Minimum wage is a welfare system bypassing the IRS collection and redistribution effort. Minimum wage is a tax.
Minimum wage is a tax... heck, it is a conspiracy by the state to gang up with the worker to take down the private company and then ditch the worker.
‘Do you recall Cicero?’
I don’t recall it off hand. What was it?
You’re 100% correct. My elementary school was right under the flight path as they made a left turn after takeoff. Still remember C-47’s flying over.
It was great to be growing up in America in the 50’s.
In Europe, due to wages, there are fewer opportunities to start up a business and there are fewer fast food restaurants. Most of these fast food joints are owned by the politically connected. There are literally no little people acquiring franchises to sell burgers. The US is headed that way too if wages jump to $10 or $15, and we too will see fewer fast food joints!
The only reason McDonald’s and other fast food joints are not in recession is the almighty EBT card from Uncle Sugar.
This $15/hr protest is being organized, funded and executed by SEIU.
How many of them do you suppose were paid by the government with our tax dollars yesterday to disrupt the economy?
Ok I thought you can work another job at Fedex or UPS which I hear pay great.
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FEDEX and/or UPS are VERY discriminatory.
They require that you have no recent arrests.
They require that you have no drugs in your system.
They require that you have a reasonably clean driving record.
They require that you dress in a uniform.
They require that you can speak full sentences and have a grasp of the language.
They have the nerve to expect you to act proper and obey local laws while in their uniform or vehicle.
Far too many people fail to meet even the basic requirements.
When running asphalt plants etc I had the mind set that ANYONE that showed up at 5AM with their lunch would be given the opportunity to ‘show what they had’.
Potentially employees were wont to show up at 11AM (early) looking for a ‘job’.
After a couple minutes of talking to them, I would tell them to catch the next truck out to the job and the foreman would take care of them.
The ‘universal’ answer was ‘..Oh, I can’t do that today BUT would you sign this so I can tell ‘them’ I was looking for a job.;
My ‘universal’ answer was - ‘when you show up in the morning ready to work, I will sign the paper and note that you had been hired’.
Had better luck getting ‘casual labor’ off the street corner when extra help needed.
Oh yes, we were in the ‘heart’ of DC within walking distance of many neighborhoods, on a bus line and a subway stop was a couple of blocks away.
The problem is not minimum wage but a failed economy.
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Of course, you’re right. But most politicians never admit their malfeasance. That’s why there is a coordinated effort now to make the minimum wage a major campaign issue. It shifts blame from the government, where it belongs, to the private sector.
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