Posted on 07/30/2013 5:34:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
Smash Burger is also pretty solid and they have beer. Even more “almost a restaurant”. There’s a lot of awesome stuff going on in the hamburger world right now, it’s having the same revolution beer had in the 90s and 00s.
All they really want is to raise the bar to increase welfare payments so they can stop working and rake in more money than what they get now...
The cost-of-living differences for pay in your field result from competition for talent between private companies, not government edict. The two are very different.
I have avoided McDonalds for the last few years. The burgers are small and overpriced, the "meat" is thin and tasteless. I go to regular diners instead, where real wholesome beef is used. And the prices are reasonable, even cheaper than McD's when you consider the burgers are thicker, wider and more ingredients than McD's. Just had an awesome one in Austin a couple days ago at Wholly Cow.
As sure as there is a just God, there is a special place in Hell for the author of this crap. Do you know how much you’d raise the price of McDonald’s hamburger if you gave the fry cook $15 an hour? Let’s say he cooks 50 burgers an hour 750 cents divided by 50 is... fifteen cents! On the other hand, after a shift, the fry cook would have sixty more dollars in his pocket, with which he could buy ten ... oops, 9... McDonald’s meals.
What idiots like the human filth don’t get is that when McDonald’s doesn’t pay him a decent wage, we taxpayers have to. We pay for their education, their health care, their housing, their illegitimate children (because they lose benefits if they get married), and instead of taxing them a few thousand dollars, we give them about $2,500 in negative taxation for each baby they pop out.
Are you so naive as to believe if they raised the minimum wage we still wouldn't pay for all that? Most people taking handouts from the taxpayers work sporadically or don't even work. Many fast food workers are students etc who are supported by their families.
What fast food restaurants pay their employees will not change the welfare/entitlement culture that has been deeply embedded in the culture for generations.
>> Are you so naive as to believe if they raised the minimum wage we still wouldn’t pay for all that? <<
It’s all means tested, so if someone is getting benefits while working, they will lose a portion of those benefits when they earn more money.
>> Many fast food workers are students etc who are supported by their families. <<
What decade are you living in? I haven’t seen a native English speaking fast food worker since in years.
>> What fast food restaurants pay their employees will not change the welfare/entitlement culture that has been deeply embedded in the culture for generations. <<
It doesn’t need to. We’re talking about the working “poor,” not the jobless poor. (And yes, I put “poor” in scare quotes, because despite the fact that McDonald’s paying hem nothing, they’re getting along quite nicely due to the money you’re paying them through taxes.)
With means testing benefits the norm in America, the issue isn’t how much someone makes; they’ll get by no matter what. The issue is whether they are paid by their employer or by the taxpayers. And frankly, I’m getting sick of subsidizing McDonald’s hiring of illegal aliens.
You are right in that case. Illegal aliens typically get large subsidies from taxpayers. Some people who work at low wage jobs, typically switching from job to job often get big subsidies from taxpayers.
In this decade I know of high school students from middle class families who have fast food type jobs. When taking my daughter to a Baskin Robbins for an ice cream cone the employees were all classmates of hers. Other friends have high school kids who work at restaurants for part time jobs.
The answer is to enforce the law on illegal aliens and stop allowing them to play the system and get welfare, etc.
Illegals are trained to fraudulently get on government programs and get handouts. Even if the minimum wage was increased they would still find ways to cheat the system.
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Maybe they can use their extra money to buy stock in robotics companies, because if they get their way there’s a good chance there will be less restaurants, with less jobs in each restaurant, and more robots.
SPOT ON!!!!
How many auto union workers are still sitting on their porches in South Bend, Indiana, waiting for Studebaker to ‘come back’?????
eggs-actly. and that’s no yolk though I wish it were.
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