For getting very basic orders, the past several times we have eaten at fast food places, the bill has been at least $15 or more for two people.
Even with the high prices on groceries, one could easily get enough ground beef, buns, frozen French fries to feed 4-6 people for $15. Sometimes convenience is worth a little extra, but if you have a family group, they are not going to McDonald’s or Burger King and drop $10-12 per person or more just for burgers and fries.
Millions of fast food workers are going to end up unemployed, IMHO.
That's what I don't understand about this. Why are fast food workers so fast to jump on this band wagon? They've got to know that all it will do is cost them their jobs. NO ONE is going to pay $20 for a Happy Meal!
Fast Food is not an inelastic commodity. If they increase the prices 30%, sales will drop by a lot more than that. People have a lot of choices about food.
When the only jobs Obama can help create are part time fast food jobs, he needs to call in his markers from the NLRB and state Dems to make it look like these are real career jobs with a career path. Oh well, Moochelle wants to kill fast food anyway (except for herself) so it all fits together. The greatest irony is that Obama’s voter base will be the ones hit the hardest by all this.