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To: dragnet2

I’ve already answered the question...if your choice of a job is fast food you’re going to start at minimum wage ,if you want more pick something else!!! It’s not hard to find someone who say “would you like fries with that”!!!


74 posted on 09/23/2013 3:52:21 AM PDT by ontap (***)
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To: ontap

“I’ve already answered the question...if your choice of a job is fast food you’re going to start at minimum wage ,if you want more pick something else!!! It’s not hard to find someone who say “would you like fries with that”!!!”

It may not be hard to find somebody to say “You want fries with that” it’s not a very advanced skill and yet the franchises manage to make a profit off of it.
When somebody is working a full time job and that job doesnt pay enough for them to sleep inside and eat everyday where do you suggest they make up that shortfall of money. They can get foodstamps but then it’s the taxpayers subsidizing the FF franchise.

I’m not a FF franchiser but I see it as a triangle between the costs of the product, the profits and the cost of labor.
The argument, as I’ve seen it, is that raising minimum wage will cause prices to go up causing customer fall off and possible closure of the franchise.
So the customer has a right to cheap food, the owner has a right to his profits but the employees should just be grateful that they get to work 40 hours a week and still qualify for food stamps?

Oh and BTW I don’t buy into that argument that raising the price of a value meal 2-3 dollars will break the franchises. People may complain at first but it’ll be just like the price of a Stop & Go pack of smokes. Those places used to charge a solid $1.50 more than a smoke shop or a supermarket and they sold lots of smokes.
People are paying for speed and convienence. They’re not going to give that up for very long.


78 posted on 09/23/2013 10:10:06 AM PDT by snarkybob
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