A worker makes $20/hr and makes 30 Big Macs per hour. Labor charge is 66 cents per Mac.
He gets a raise to $30/hr. The labor charge is now $1.00/hr. A 34 cent per Mac increase. WOW, WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE!
Don't forget the fryer guy and the soda guy and the window order person and the guy who mops. So the $10 meal will jump to $15 and as we've seen people stop buying Big Mac meals. So McDonalds has to go back to their dollar menu, reduce the workforce, get more automation for the fryer, and besides losing customers they lose workers ushering in the end of the fast food industry as we know it with 6-10 staffers. The building goes up for sale along with the pharmacy on every corner and the homeless move in to occupy the building. Thus reducing property values and making Oakland more crime ridden. Those staffers with limited work skills go on unemployment so our taxes go up as we migrate to a socialist state.