Fast food places depended on cheap labor - moms working when kids were in school and high school kids working until close.
Moms used to usually have husbands that paid most of the bills.
High schools used to get out earlier, allowing the high school kids to get to work just when moms had to head home to care for young ones.
The restaurants have added highly profitable breakfast service that can’t rely on moms with young children or high school kids.
The politicians have decided to buy more votes [~$15/hour minimum wages, PPACA] with employer money.
The era of cheap fast food restaurant labor is over.
The era of cheap fast food restaurant food is over.
BRING ON THE ROBOTS!!! In fact they already have. At a Korean steakhouse that we sometimes go to the wait staff has been mostly replaced by ROBOTS that bring food and drinks to our tables. We had relations from overseas visit us and I told the kids that ROBOTS would be serving us. They thought I was kidding UNTIL it actually happened. Then they became fascinated by the ROBOTS.
TOO MANY FAST FOOD PLACES ARE UP TO AS MUCH AS $22 AN HOUR.
MAMDANI WANTS MINIMUM WAGE OF $30 AN HOUR.