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$17 for a Burger King Whopper Meal in California.
Ian Jaeger on X ^ | August 30, 2025 | Ian Jaeger

Posted on 09/01/2025 4:22:18 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man

Ian Jaeger @IanJaeger29

$17 for a Burger King Whopper Meal in California.

This is what happens when you make the minimum wage $20, Gavin Newsom.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Local News; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: burgerking; california; economy; frenchlaundry; minimumwage; newscum; newsom; outrageousprices; sanfrancisco; sanfransicko; whoppermeal

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To: Getready

I haven’t been there since well before they went woke.


41 posted on 09/01/2025 9:26:28 PM PDT by samiam5
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To: sushiman

Kumamoto is supposed to have legendary garlic pork bone Ramen..


42 posted on 09/01/2025 9:40:56 PM PDT by RitchieAprile (available monkeys looking for the change..)
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To: central_va

The outrageous price of beef AND $20.00 an hour min. wage in CA. this price doesn’t surprise me at all!! This is precisely why IN & OUT a CA. home based company for DECADES pulled out of Ca. along with enormous work comp. rates, HUGE taxes, astronomical amount of law suits due to a culture of ambulance chaser attorneys everywhere I am surprised that there are ANY businesses left here ANYWHERE!!!


43 posted on 09/01/2025 9:54:34 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell )
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To: Drew68; All

Yeah, normal BK’s don’t serve beer like that SFO BK...FR HQ area BK’s are at $13.59 for that Whopper combo....still horrible but not THAT horrible like the airport version.


44 posted on 09/01/2025 10:02:44 PM PDT by Drago
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To: Macho MAGA Man
I ordered two Doritos Locos Tacos from Taco Bell this evening. Priced at $2.99 each. Each is supposed to be 170 calories. What I pulled from the wrappers when I got home was nothing like I had received in the past. Skimpy, half-filled. No way that was 170 calories. Both were skimpy. This from Taco Bell in south Pocatello, ID.

Carl's Jr wasn't any better with a Famous Star last week. I could hardly find the meat. The prices are high, portions are skimpy. It's no longer reasonable to patronize these places...even in Idaho without the jacked up minimum wage.

After my Whipple procedure, my digestion is much less efficient. If I don't make 2000 calories with 100 grams of protein, I lose weight. 149.1 yesterday due to missing my calorie targets. I'll miss again today because of being short changed at Taco Bell.

45 posted on 09/01/2025 10:45:09 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Macho MAGA Man
Yep, I was in Taco Bell a while ago and ordered a box of them. When I got home I opened them up. They weren’t even half filled. They had more lettuce than meat.

I just saw your Taco Bell comment now after posting my own experience on the last two trips to Taco Bell. They are no longer delivering the product they claim on the menu.

46 posted on 09/01/2025 10:47:15 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: RitchieAprile

Look at the first ramen on top left , Hinokuni and read . This company - Itsuki - is in our town . Famous all over Japan .

https://www.itsukifoods.jp/lang/eng/products/ramen.html


47 posted on 09/02/2025 12:45:58 AM PDT by sushiman
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To: Drew68

Ice cold BEER? At BK?


48 posted on 09/02/2025 3:39:57 AM PDT by Paperpusher (Gal 5:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.)
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To: central_va

Price gouging? The QSR’s don’t set the minimum wage , beef prices or any other vendor prices, or utilities. Every time prices are increased there is a drop in the customer base and sales, operators have to try and hit a balance of making some profit or losing everything, they don’t gouge they simply try and survive.

Also every time the minimum goes up, everything tied to it goes up in price,so those employees lucky enough not to get terminated end up doing their job and that of the person let go. The other thing that the employee benefitting from the $20 minimum never thinks of is that they also pay higher prices and will get a rude awakening from the tax man.


49 posted on 09/02/2025 7:18:18 AM PDT by Mastador1
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To: Macho MAGA Man

It started at $0.37 in ‘57 then went up from there - same stuff but inflation

Now $15.09 plus tax in Wisconsin


50 posted on 09/02/2025 7:23:28 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: central_va

“This kind of price gouging cannot be because of minimum wage.”

Have you ever run a restaurant?

L


51 posted on 09/02/2025 7:25:45 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Mastador1

Labor is oly 20 to 30% of the cost of fast food. So if labor were to double, the overal cost to the consumer would be a 15% increase. You can’t blame labor for this.


52 posted on 09/02/2025 7:49:18 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Lurker

Do you know simple math?


53 posted on 09/02/2025 7:52:13 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

In LA a car wash will cost you $30.00 to $50.00 for the delux job.

Illegals are now in fat city at McDonalds you get $15.00 to $20.00 an hour for placing a bag of fries in another bag.

Welcome to Hotel California


54 posted on 09/02/2025 7:55:54 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: central_va

Yes. I do.

You’re apparently the math impaired person.

Labor costs are a major input to prices.

Look it up.

L


55 posted on 09/02/2025 8:21:37 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Lurker

I looked it up. Labor accounts for 20 to 30% of the retail cost of fast food.


56 posted on 09/02/2025 9:19:58 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

Okay. So you’ve increased the costs of 1/5 to 1/3 on the labor input. Now factor that all the way down the supply chain in California.

Then pile on the costs of the building, electricity, water, gas, garbage disposal, and taxes. Use California costs.

Then get back to me.

L


57 posted on 09/02/2025 10:16:08 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Lurker
Let's say they the cook makes 60 burgers per hour, one per minute. He is paid $12/hr and the labor cost is 20/60 = $.20 labor per burger.

Now he gets a HUGE raise to $20/hr making the new labor charge per burger $20/60 = $.33 per burger. OMG a thirteen cent per burger increase. Stop the presses!!! Import more Mexicans. We are all going to die!!! American workers are greedy!!!!

58 posted on 09/02/2025 10:55:07 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Lurker
$12/hr and the labor cost is 12/60 = $.20 labor per burger.

Fixed it.

59 posted on 09/02/2025 10:56:20 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

And the other costs I mentioned?

You seem to have overlooked those.

L


60 posted on 09/02/2025 12:01:02 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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