[knarf]

I don't think I need to crunch the numbers but, at 15 bucks an hour, with a (some) 24 hr day, and a staff of (avg) 5, AND average a burger at $5 ... You need to sell 360 burghers to generaste the $1800.00 just for payroll.

That's 30 burghers per/hr.

Go watch a McDonalds during off peak hrs and see what kind of business they do

We ain't talked yet about rent, electricity and a million of etcetera's for the example I've invented.

[kjam22]

I'm not in favor of raising the minimum wage. But just for some context.... when I was in college I managed a burger restaurant while paying for college. Our monthly goal was a 30 to 33% food cost, and a 20% labor cost. Then by time you subtracted out the various other expenses you would net around 10% of gross sales monthly. Really the food cost and labor cost were pretty much the only controllable items.

I don't know McDonalds numbers. I wasn't at McDonalds. But we didn't really count burgers and work backwards. We priced burgers based on those percentages.

[Mr. K]

its easier if you raise the price of a burger to $4

[Labyrinthos]

I don't think I need to crunch the numbers but, at 15 bucks an hour, with a (some) 24 hr day, and a staff of (avg) 5, AND average a burger at $5 ... You need to sell 360 burghers to generaste the $1800.00 just for payroll. That's 30 burghers per/hr.

Go watch a McDonalds during off peak hrs and see what kind of business they do.

When I worked at a suburban McDonald's back in the Stone Age when production was more labor intensive, we averaged ~800 units an hour during the prime-time lunch hour and ~ 600 an hour an hour during the prime-time dinner hour. The hour before and after the prime-time was about half the prime. That's 2800 units per day during this crucial six hour time period. Total hourly staff during these periods was 12.

[jsanders2001]

Liberals just emote they don’t think. Rationality is not in their nature. If it came to survival of the fittest they would be the first to die. Deep down inside they know this and it rattles them to the core.

[Moonman62]

We ain't talked yet about rent, electricity and a million of etcetera's for the example I've invented.

Don't forget higher wages for supervisors and managers. The $15 an hour workers can't be making more than them.

The real problem is that Big Government and Big Business has been suppressing wages for decades. They want to flood the country with illegal aliens to suppress wages even more.