Posted on 09/11/2013 1:51:54 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
... a local burger joint outside of Detroit, Mich. is going to start to paying $15 an hour to new employees on October 1.
Moo Cluck Moo is currently paying its entry level employees $12 an hour, far above the state minimum wage of $7.40.
“We always wanted to be at $15 an hour. It just feels human to do it. It’s not an easy job to do.
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Just saw this flash across NBC "news".
So hey, kids, wanna make $15 an hour flipping chicken patties? Move to Detroit. Let me know how that works out for ya.
Yeah, I always wanted to pay $11.50 for a crappy take out burger.... It just feels like the right thing to do.
Liberals are such sick people. It can’t be rationalized from a business stand point so they tell us how “human it feels”. Let’s see how “human” they feel when these little asswipes demand $20 p/h.
well, seeing as most the residents there “earn” $50,000 a year in government benefits, they can afford the likely rise in the associated fast food prices.
Stupid me. I had to college to work up to (and eventually exceed) that kind of wage.
I wonder if he will still feel human when he has to fire his employees when he goes out of business?
Partial compensation here is that they will be able to attract and keep the elite of the burger business workforce. The costs associated with constantly retraining a minimum-wage workforce are not inconsiderable. As are those associated with the constant screwups of inexperienced and don’t give a damn workers.
I used to train franchisees in an unrelated but even more labor-intensive business. IMO they could generally save money net by paying $2 or $3 above minimum wage so that they got the cream of the temporary worker group. Few of them ever believed me enough to try it, but those who did said I was absolutely right.
I have no problem with any of this as long as its voluntary. If they can’t remain competitive at the higher wage rate they’ll quickly be OOB.
New world order lesson #27:
The financial oligarchy that is new world order uses unions in “capitalist” nations...
to do the “dirty work” of smashing small competitors.
NWO’s large monopolistic businesses can simply raise prices to satisfy higher labor costs.
Small mom and pop businesses in the same industry find it difficult to keep up to increased wages and benefits, and workers gravitate to the big businesses. Small mom and pops are much more limited in how fast they can raise prices, thus they get “squeezed out” of business.
Union members don’t realize they are helping the “big corporation” they think they are opposing.
Another EXCELLENT example is in construction. Union thugs will damage the equipment of non-union firms on job sites and use other thug tactics. They think they are preserving their “union”, but they are stupidly doing the illegal dirty work of smashing competition for the large corporations they work for.
Once competition is practically eliminated, the large contracting firms can then increase prices much more easily, since the small competitive bidders are gone, and go back to squeezing their employees more, since they have nowhere else to work.
Thanks, unions ! /sarc
Reminds me of the red necks that were selling watermelons. They paid $.50 for each watermelon. Sold them for .45. After they sold them all and lost money they decided their problem was they needed more watermelons.
iT will be fun to se ehow long it takes them to go out of business. and they will.
I work in medical records and don’t make $15/hour. It’s nice to know flipping hamburgers is worth more than a person’s health information!!!
Hope they have the customer base for this.
Businesses can’t print money to make payroll.
Maybe they have a wealthy sugardaddy to help out when business gets slow????
Why not $100.00/hr? That would be very human.
That is pretty much comparable with a similar meal at McD's or Wendy's. So how do they do it? It has to be made up in supply and overhead costs. Are the servings smaller or lower quality? Do they buy buildings for cheap?
You don't get something for nothing.
FWIW I do applaud them if they use local products as they advertise.
iT will be fun to se ehow long it takes them to go out of business. and they will.
Yeah, but it’s 50 bucks to use the toilet.
They’re doing it freely and of their own will. Best of luck to them.
It is this guy’s business. There could be good reasons for doing as he’s doing. For example, he might want to keep his help and not do the MacDonalds constant turnover of high school workers. What he gains is an experienced, trained, constant work force.
In any case, his decisions will cause the rise and fall of his business.
And that’s the point. It’s his business.
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