Posted on 08/29/2013 8:53:01 AM PDT by shove_it
SOUTHFIELD (WWJ/AP) - A local McDonald’s restaurant was forced to close after its employees walked out and hundreds gathered outside to protest for higher wages.
The restaurant on 8 Mile and Lahser roads along the Detroit/Southfield city line was just one location locally where fast food workers are participating in a nationwide “walkout for better wages.”
Over 200 protestors crowded the restaurant, carrying signs that read “We are worth more. Strike for 15,” as in $15 an hour...
(Excerpt) Read more at detroit.cbslocal.com ...
Thats right, I totally forgot about the free peanuts.
The Real Minimum Wage: $0
Actually most of the recent commercials I’ve seen look like they’re made in Brazil.
True leftists blame the closing on evil employers who exploit their workers. The true leftist wants all the means of production in the hands of the government. They can’t do that just now, so they try to destroy businesses.
Great the city of Detroit is bankrupt and this is the bright thinking of the local yobs????
” I just called, they answered the phone said they are open and she said that they never closed.”
MSM is now worse than the old KGB. Far worse. They are the enemy!
This clamor for higher wages at fast-food restaurants is just another indication of how REALLY BAD this economy has become under OBOZO!!These jobs were NEVER meant to provide a”living-wage”!!!These businesses prosper in a good economic climate.No one is going to pay $10.00 for a Big Mac!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Go to In-n-Out. Great prices, good burgers and excellent service spoken in ENGLISH! Family owned and NOT a franchise, either!
I wonder if that store actually makes money. If not, I’d shut it down.
“We still have private property”
No we don’t. The killing of private property was completed with Kilo and the smoking bans. Heck, many a FReeper celebrated......
Business got slow, profits down, so they *raised* their prices. Their “logic” was that since selling fewer items, they had to make more on each item. Want to know how well that worked?
Seems the owner stocked a lot of half-gallons of ice cream but not a lot of quarts, pints and half-pints. The reason?
“I can’t keep the little ones on the shelf. They sell out too fast.”
Ya can’t make this stuff up...
I paid $12 for lunch at a McDonalds last weekend. I can get a better meal in a subshop for $7!
We sometimes went to the McD’s near us because it was convenient on a busy day, but you’re right, it’s no bargain anymore.
We moved and the big supermarket a few blocks away has a Chinese food section, a hot food station, salad bar, sandwich and pizza section and there’s with a nice table area if you want to eat there. Why go to McD’s anymore when I can get a variety of foods for about 5-6$ a meal? And on Tues you get 2 slices of pizza for 1$.
There’s even an area with a variety of the foods, from chicken to Chinese, pre-packed, so you can come in, pick up a meal, and be out in about 3 minutes.
was about to go to Taco Bell but was told they ran out of beef. So there was McD butI noticed Chik-fil-A was still open- went there instead. Great sandwich, order filled correctly and they spoke English.
The biggest problem would be designing a customer operated touch screen so easy to use a cave man could do it as in some areas like Detroit a cave man would have superior intellect.They've had one for almost a decade. I know the guys who developed it.
They tested it in a few restaurants, and it seemed to work well. But for some reason, management decided not to use it. Of course, they could always change their minds if the human order takers become more trouble then they're worth.
Another interesting system they developed but decided not to deploy was a centralized call center to take orders from the restaurants drive-thru. The call center for the prototype was in (IIRC) Wyoming, where they could find quality employees who spoke understandable English. This would greatly reduce the need for order takers, since the they would only have to staff for the actual load, rather than having an order taker at each restaurant, sitting idle for a good part of the day.
One additional point: I knew many people in McDonald's corporate, and many of them started out flipping burgers at a restaurant and worked their way up to senior management positions. In fact, former CEO Charlie Bell never worked anyplace else, starting at 15 as a floor mopper and working his way up the ladder to CEO.
Man, how do you manage that? My McChicken meal is $3.89, including sales tax
That’s good..Frankly. That’s an unusual name..Frankly. Is it normally Frank?
well, this and the “pink slime” did me in
I don’t think we’ll be worse off for developing a McDonalds aversion!
That and the almost $30 tab to take me and 2 teenagers there for a “meal” of “fast food” served by non-English speakers who NEVER get the order right
No, no, no. It's more like $500 trillion. These idiots have no concept of money.
This morning I drove by 3 McDonalds, a Burger King, and a Wendy’s. Looked like business as usual to me.
I worked for what was at one time the world’s largest commercial printer as Corporate Director of Engineering and at the local plant where I was based we did our best to improve quality and safety and yes bottom line with automation while honestly doing our best to not gut the work force.
However, when the major customer at that local plant wanted a new 10 year no strike clause (we had 7 unions) and we offered in return to give them whatever other unions in the industry had negotiated, one union refused and the customer walked.
All the automation in the would could not save us from communist union scum. Corporate Bankruptcy followed by a sale of the remaining plants and that local plant is now a bunch of small businesses with NO UNIONs.
When workers use mafia tactics to blackmail a business, fire them all and let them eat their commie union dues.
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