If only someone, anyone would have had warned of the effects of raising the minimum wage beforehand.
Nobody could have foreseen the consequences of something so complex.
Does anybody in 2023 actually eat at McDonLards?
I can’t remember the last time I got a fast food burger meal, it’s now like $12, I can get cold cuts for a week on that.
Bring on the robots..
I remember when a 1/4 pounder with cheese meal was 3.18 cents.
Now I think it’s 13.18...
I'm ok with McD's going out of business. No bailouts please.
had a teacher in school that had an affair with a girl who was a bit slow- his name was MacDonald- and yep- he went to prison for it- the joke going aroudn was “Watch out for the Big Mac Attack”
The rare times (maybe a couple of times per year) I’ll get a fast food burger and fries is if I’m on an hours long drive, have to stop and get gas or charge (depending on which car we drive), the gas station/charging station is a combination fast food place, and I’ll get home hours before I want my next meal. Usually I have a cooler with food from home anyway unless I’ve been out of town for days and I’m on the way back home.
I have not ate in a McD’s in years.....
Federal Minimum wage 1976: $2.30
$2.60 in 1976 is worth 13.75 today.
Current Federal minimum age is $7.25 and has only 52% of the buying power of $2.60 minimum age from 1976.
There is a reason the top of the food chain keep getting fatter, and the lower end struggles even more.
Need to fix the minimum wage, adjust it to appropriate level, and then, just like Social Security, tie it to inflation and automatically increase it every year.
End this stupid invented political BS battle.
Most McDonald’s have already gone to the kiosk-based ordering system, cutting back on employees.
But lets give the employees 15 bucks an hour! (S)
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Exactly. The attraction of fast food is that it was fast and cheap. It is no longer cheap. People will change their eating habits.
Fast food is NOT a necessity of life. Growing up in the 1950s the only time we (the kids) ate out was when we were traveling and then it was at a diner along the highway.
Fast food did not become a thing until late in my teens. Even then when I began working I took my lunch to work (had a nice lunch box with a large thermos.
In the long run it is cheaper to buy the fixings and take your lunch to work. People will figure it out. Fast food restaurant make their money on volume with fewer people eating out that volume will go down while their fixed cost remain the same.
Some established restaurants are not going to make it.
In high school (1970s) McD handed out “loyalty cards” to students which provided a free medium drink any time we bought a large sandwich. During my Jr and Sr HS years my body was built out of cheap Big Macs and free Coke.
$5.15?
I can get a 1-lb packet of ground sirloin and cook 3 good-sized burgers for $5.15.
But lets give the employees 15 bucks an hour! (S) Exactly what do you think they and other employers should do when people have been trained by government to sit on their asses and collect money courtesy working taxpayers?
Not happy about high prices? Then blame those responsible for shutting down the nation with a bullshit crises(prior and current administration) and the current administrations policies which are directly intended to punish Americans and reward the illegals.
"How 'Bout That"
But, Big Mac’s are still selling.