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Local McDonald’s Forced To Close Amid Protest For Higher Wages
CBSlocal ^ | 29 Aug 2013

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: detroit; mi
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Nationwide protest against fast food chains

I don't know if they are protesting against the mom & pop types but National chains such as Burger King, Wendy's and McDonalds are targeted.

121 posted on 08/29/2013 11:10:05 AM PDT by deport
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To: Responsibility2nd

“A McDonalds on 8 Mile Road in Detroit?

Oh, the rich, rich irony.”

Yeah, what will be done with the hundreds of tons of chicken mcnuggets? Catfish bait?


122 posted on 08/29/2013 11:11:11 AM PDT by Rannug ("God has given it to me, let him who touches it beware.")
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To: cuban leaf

“There is a GREAT all you can eat chinese place by where I work. $4.99 all day.”

Yeah, but doesn’t the taste of feral cats and dogs get old after a while. Health inspectors found a Collie in the freezer of our local Chinese restaurant.


123 posted on 08/29/2013 11:12:03 AM PDT by ImNotLying (The MSM bears a close resemblance to the world's oldest profession!)
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To: Mase

LOL!


124 posted on 08/29/2013 11:12:04 AM PDT by mc5cents (Pray for America)
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To: ImNotLying

125 posted on 08/29/2013 11:21:34 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: cotton1706
I paid $12 for lunch at a McDonalds last weekend. I can get a better meal in a subshop for $7!

I refuse to eat at McDonalds, overpriced and small portions. The portions are half the size they were 20 years ago, and poorly made. Others have gotten me to eat there a few times over the last couple years and I'm shocked at the much smaller size of items, while they cost much more.

On the other hand, I really enjoy sandwich shops like Subways, healthier and more cost effective considering you're getting more nutritious real food.

126 posted on 08/29/2013 11:24:55 AM PDT by roadcat
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To: Dr. Sivana

Culver’s just made it far enough south that I see them. We stop at the one in Murfreesboro when on road trips to see the folks. Pretty good place, I like them.


127 posted on 08/29/2013 11:26:15 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: fabian
Bullets and mre’s will be worth more than gold soon.

From back in 2005: Scott Burns:

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  is worthless and gold has value, we won't have an exchange
  economy anymore. If that happens, a .357 Magnum revolver 
  will be worth its weight in gold. Today, however, you can
  buy a good gun for the price of one ounce of gold.

128 posted on 08/29/2013 11:32:05 AM PDT by Peet (Come back with a warrant.)
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129 posted on 08/29/2013 11:34:14 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: shove_it
Rush Limbaugh did a lesson on this nonsense this morning explaining the economics of the raise request. Most interesting and very enlightening to the uneducated, however, it was directed to all. Rush at the blackboard....

Protesters protesting their own choices...children etc., is like Obama blaming others for his lack of understanding the job.......

130 posted on 08/29/2013 11:49:44 AM PDT by yoe ("They Come To America" order it now: http://www.theycometoamerica.com/buy-dvd/)
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To: vette6387

Around here, Chinese food almost always means “Buffet”, and yes, they seem to be mostly family operations.


131 posted on 08/29/2013 11:53:20 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: Vigilanteman
I laughed till I cried when I first saw it. I want to believe it's real but, unfortunately, it's most likely photo shopped.

When I went to school in Santa Barbara, there was a student ghetto next door to the university called Isla Vista. In the town was a Mexican restaurant known as "Serranitos." Serranitos was always packed and had they had the best flautas ever.

Isla Vista was also filled with lots of stray dogs that the students would (sort of) adopt and keep fed, but wouldn't allow them in the apartments. One quarter, the dogs began to disappear. It became quite the mystery and the school paper did a great job of investigating. Eventually, they learned that Serranitos was using stray dogs for their shredded beef. It must have been true because the restaurant was closed by the health department the day after the story came out and never reopened.

I'd been eating there once or twice a week for a long time.

132 posted on 08/29/2013 11:58:23 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: ImNotLying

I only eat dogs with fur and avoid the ones with hair. I guess a collie would be ok - as long as I didn’t know him.


133 posted on 08/29/2013 11:58:43 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
There could, true, be something hinky about the $4.99 Chinese

I think there is absolutely something hinky about any restaurant offering all you can eat specials for just $4.99. There is a lot of distressed food being sold out there, and my guess is that this is where it ends up. I live in Florida, the home of the all you can eat buffet. I have no interest in ever eating in such a place, but then, I was never one to go for the "3 large pizzas for only $5" promos that made so many companies huge (CiCi's?).

I don't want to eat pizza or buffet only costing $4.99. I'd rather eat at home.

134 posted on 08/29/2013 12:04:35 PM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: cotton1706
I paid $12 for lunch at a McDonalds last weekend. I can get a better meal in a subshop for $7!

I just bring in leftovers from home, and nuke them in the office microwave. Even cheaper.

On road-trips, I often just bring a cooler with cold cuts, yoghurt, and drinks. The fast food in highway rest areas are generally high-price and low-quality.

135 posted on 08/29/2013 12:08:21 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: yoe
Rush Limbaugh did a lesson on this nonsense this morning ...

Yup, I caught part of it a while ago when I went out on some errands. Too bad those that need to hear it never will or if they do, will ignore it.

136 posted on 08/29/2013 12:10:29 PM PDT by shove_it (long ago Orwell and Rand warned us about 0bama's America)
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To: Wurlitzer
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.

There's a Buc-ee's ( http://www.buc-ees.com/index.php ) nearby that has a deli sandwich counter where you order your sandwich at a kiosk with several touch screens, it couldn't be simpler. Pick your bread from the pictures, then it prompts for meat selection with pictures, then cheese, veggies, dressings and such. Submit the order and it pops up on the screen where the staff makes your sandwich. Pick out some chips and get a drink. Walk over to the counter and a friendly well dressed employee cheerfully hands you your sandwich or wrap. Yes, humans make them but ordering is completely automated. Imagine, no long line forming at the register while the clerk waits for someone to decide what they want to order or ask if they 'want fries or an apple pie with that'. It's quite an impressive operation for a simple sandwich line.

cheers

137 posted on 08/29/2013 12:12:17 PM PDT by theymakemesick (Please join the corpse, please!)
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To: PapaBear3625
On road-trips, I often just bring a cooler with cold cuts, yoghurt, and drinks. The fast food in highway rest areas are generally high-price and low-quality.

Best way to go even if you have to buy some inflated $5 bags of ice now and then to keep it cold . . .

As an added bonus, you don't have to deal with lines and nimrods in the fast food joints.

138 posted on 08/29/2013 12:25:17 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: shove_it

..........a friend of mine walked off and left a 100,000 + square foot shopping center in Detroit too!

It had nothing to do with striking employees either. The real estate had simply become worth pennies on the dollar leaving the payment of taxes being just plain dumb!

This McDonald’s franchise owner could have decided similarly plus he probably could no longer even begin to guarantee workers and patrons safety any more leaving him enormous exposure to liability. My bet is he won’t re-open no matter what.


139 posted on 08/29/2013 12:26:06 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
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Is there a plural word for Genius? Not that I need it in this case.

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Michigan legislative action thread
140 posted on 08/29/2013 12:31:33 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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