Posted on 01/18/2021 4:44:37 AM PST by EyesOfTX
This crazy talk that gets republicans in trouble.
Let my explain: Labor is but one cost in a bigger production cost structure of food service in general. A $5.00 hamburger has many costs built in to the price. Labor is around $1.50 for a $5.00 hamburger. So is labor goes up 33% then the cost goes up 33% of $1.50 = $50. So the new price is now $5.50 and NOT $12.00!!!
The cost of labor going up 30% is not a crises.
We used to hire middle and high school kids to pick veggies at minimum wage from 6 to 9 in the morning. They loved the hours- gave them the rest of the day to play and some money in their pocket. Have not done so for a while in MA, at now $13.50/hr they are not worth it, for the most part, and they can no longer work in the fields at 6am. It’s a shame for many reasons: it’s good work, they are outside learning a skill, and there is great reward in seeing a job done...plus the extra scratch ;)
That is crazy talk.
Labor is but one cost in a bigger production cost structure of food service in general. A $5.00 hamburger has many costs built in to the price. Labor is around $1.50 for a $5.00 hamburger. So is labor goes up 33% then the cost goes up 33% of $1.50 = $50. So the new price is now $5.50 and NOT $12.00!!!
Think of this. Biden the Uniter’s plan to give minorities only, small business money is pure sabotage because of the new minimum wage. Nothing like starting a new business with a noose around your neck.
Fixed it.
Beyond $10.00 all will be Part Time, if you can find 1 for all the future ‘legal’ illegals. Doing to Fast food what they did to Construction industry.
AND-—Tests show that those kiosks are MORE CONTAMINATED than your household toilet seats..... I won’t touch them.
An increase in wages results in an increase of costs for goods and services. Those affected the most will be the poor and the elderly who are now on fixed incomes........
Maybe a 10% increase overall. Nothing to see here..
Sounds like Cedar Point.
I applied there but never got hired.
My first job was working at a Boy Scout camp for the summer. Paid a huge $75 for the season. We got paid mid-season and then at the end of camp. We also received housing and meals. Even after 50 years I still have fond memories of the two summers I worked there.
We seldom eat out, even places like Chili’s, food comes out cold, to much SALT, PEPPER, we eat Both have heart conditions. High end for us is Longhorn’s. Maybe 4 times a year. IHop is the most favored, still have to watch what you order, and which location.
My first job @ 18 paid $1.50 a hr + cheesy tips. Waiting tables. Babysitting was .50 an hr, no matter how many kids there were, being 14/15 that was what you were paid.
Never made more than $5.00 a hr. HS skills were obsolete by the time you graduated in 1966.
Someone should photo shop all of the little red number cards to say $15, instead of just the one with a 15 on it.
I’m a Manufacture Engineer and the firm I work for recently created a whole department focused solely on monetizing some of the robotics and automation we have developed in our manufacture process. This division is looking primarily at areas/jobs which will be most impacted by the $15 min wage. We have identified the food service industry as one of our biggest opportunities, especially in institutional/high volume food service, which would include fast food.
The main, but hidden reason office holders want to raise the minimum wage is because it ultimately raises tax revenue. The reality is that they couldn't give a crap what people actually get paid.
My first job was a summer job at Randy’s Broasted chicken in Decatur, GA. I made $1 per hour plus tips. I was ecstatic. 😆
I don’t know what minimum wage was in 1965 but I had rolled into Galveston with $20 in my pocket and the only immediate job I could get paid $39 wk washing dishes in a low rent diner. I did that for a week while I hunted something better and got a job doing the same thing for $70 on the Seawall. Two weeks later I stared selling shoes for $65 and commission which was worth half more. Without that first $39 I would have been desperate and would not have lasted that first week.
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