Posted on 05/30/2014 11:53:50 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
CKE Restaurants' roots began in California roughly seven decades ago, but you won't see the parent company of Carl's Jr. and Hardee's expanding there much anymore. Related Stories
What's causing what company CEO Andy Puzder describes as "very little growth" in the state?
In part it's because "the minimum wage is so high so it's harder to come up with profitable business models," Puzder said in an interview. The state's minimum wage is set to rise to $9 in July, making it among the nation's highest, and $10 by January 2016.
In cities in other states where the minimum wage has gone up considerably, Puzder said "franchisees are closing locations" after riding out lease expirations.
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
Thus increasing unemployment filings with increasing min-wage baselines — furthermore, putting the taxpayers on a bigger hook.
I must confess your post had me confused initially.
I was thinking, electronic cards! cashless! doesn't that reduce employee theft? But, all things considered, it's to the employer's advantage that the theft is against us, the citizens, not him, specifically. Of course, we vote, and we have no excuse!
Well, then. There should be no immigrant problem, should there? They should have all long since self-deported, as Mittens advocated in 2012.
Either there is no immigrant problem or your statement is pure BS!
A few things have changed:
$2.01 in 1974 is equal to $9.40 in 2014.
$9.40 is actually higher than Washington state’s current minimum wage - $9.32 - which is the highest state wage in the country.
So, after we spent trillions of dollars on education, after we spent trillions of dollars on research and development, American youth today are worth less money than you were!
In 1974, about 4% of American workers were foreign born.
In 2014, almost 15% of American workers are foreign born.
To my eye, employers have received an undeserved bonus check for the last 40 years because of immigration policy.
I believe a $15 minimum wage will have two positive outcomes:
(1) American managers and owners will be forced to modernize businesses that are now built on cheap imported foreign labor.
(2) Jobs will be lost - but since those jobs will be paying $15/Hour, American workers will demand an end to mass immigration, an end to work visas, and an end to illegal workers.
I see a booming business in self order kiosks.
Followed by this...
http://www.gizmag.com/hamburger-machine/25159/
A couple of employees to clean up, stock the machines and handle problems....
Make a list of the major restaurant and store chains and Temp agencies that do NOT use E-Verify.
I'll call them tomorrow and check.
I'll call them tomorrow and check.
Well, obviously then, E-Verify doesn't really work, does it?
Credit card fraud in these United States runs in the single-digit basis points by volume. It's a similar problem.
How is it possible to check a credit card in < 1.5 seconds, and yet it isn't possible reliably to verify a random individual's eligibility to work in the US?
Do you suppose it might be because E-Verify is a paper tiger, made so by political forces?
Just one problem:
Wait’ I thought raising the minimum wage will grow the economy .....
Well, Pelosi thinks that and she is never wrong....
As soon as I saw the picture, I said ‘ruh roh - front yard’. The ordinance regulates “aesthetics, height of grass and weeds”- doesn’t say gardens specifically, from what I read. The court will likely agree with the city, but then again, maybe you’ll get a rogue judge who likes to garden.
We’re zoned agriculture so we can do anything - my garden is in the “front” field, visible to the traffic. A nearby city is now allowing 2 chickens (no roosters & some other restrictions) per yard so people can have eggs. My aunt lives in a community with a very strict homeowner’s association - she plants her veggies between the landscape bushes, mostly in the back yard, but she did have tomatoes (indeterminate, not staked up so they stayed low) on both sides of her front stoop. I’m amazed at the veggies she gets - last year, she did better than I did with a small raised bed. People should be able to grow their own food somehow.
Hardee’s is coming to New England.
“Hardee’s is coming _back_ to New England.” ( <=- FIFY )
They were here back in the 1970s — the “Delux Huskee” was the best fast-food burger of the bunch; FRESH lettuce and FRESH, RIPE tomato. Yum.
..Maybe it says something about their respective business models....
Perhaps it does unless you account that mcds grosses about 28 billion, has over 35,000 outlets, employes over 1.8 million people.
In & out has zero franchises, being totally privately owned and employes 1,800 workers at 290 locations, all of which must be within 1 days delivery drive of a distrubition center. It is a good model for a slowly growing regional privately owned business, however the model doesn’t carry over to the scale of an international publically held business.
I guess we will find out - thanks for your reply.
They recently shut down a Carl’s Jr. in my neighborhood.
Feculent!
There should be no minimum wage.
A $100-a-head bounty should be placed on all illegals.
If you go to the bureau of labor stats.... You will find the avg. hourly wage paid across all segments of workers is 16 dollars plus....
Fast food workers avg 9 dollars plus...
Sort of blows up your argument....
How’s that union job working out for you?
a local Carls Jr added GReen Burrito food a couple years back, another became a Starbucks. a local weinerschnitzel is turning into a Starbucks too.
Obama’s fault.
Yes I guess I should’ve said BACK....but then I could say it’s a REPEET, Peet.
Re: “Sort of blows up your argument....”
Not sure what that means.
In my earlier posts I was arguing that massive low skill LEGAL immigration has destroyed the wage scale for low skill Americans.
Since it appears to be politically impossible to stop massive LEGAL immigration, the $15 minimum wage is like an unexpected gift from heaven.
Millions of home grown Americans will now start applying for jobs they would not have accepted at a lower wage.
They will not take kindly to the fact that those $15/Hour jobs are currently held by foreign immigrants.
They will begin to vote against the politicians who favor massive immigration.
And, best of all, the companies that have sold their souls for cheap foreign labor will now have to pay $15/Hour for the immigrants they claimed were essential for American business!
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