Ask any Democrat and they'll tell you constant increases in the minimum wage have no effect on the fast-food industry. Neither do those distorted order-taking speakers that further fuzz-up thick foreign accents, making them completely indecipherable. Nope - just keep increasing the wages and benefits for illegal workers (who only do the jobs Americans won't do!), support an ambulance-chasing assault from greedy lawyers and PETA, and further stigmatize an industry that now employs many thousands of people and see what happens in the long run.
Add to that an "education" lobby that seeks to dumb-down even smart students and make them unemployable in order to protect incompetent union members and their own wage, benefit and vacation packages and you have the recipe for social disaster.