Originally Posted by bronco67 (Post 19778276)

No, but there could be a higher ceiling on the pay, plus a quicker path to it. They're not doing rocket science, but who can live on $14k a year?

Originally Posted by BlackAndBlue (Post 19778366)

And there's a problem with them buying more porn with a pay increase @Tom PM? Hey, maybe a damn living wage for all workers is what's really required to stop video piracy.

I'm just trying to figure out when fast food workers unionized . . . Strikes by non-unions typically don't go very far. They fire the lot and it's business as usual the following day.

Originally Posted by whOaKemosabe (Post 19779012)

couldn't get my coffee and nuggets :(

Originally Posted by TheSquealer (Post 19778460)

The most ironic part of the whole notion of self entitlement and fairness and completely ignoring market rates (besides being fully subjective notions that never go away regardless of concessions)... is that the people squawking the loudest are the ones who typically aren't doing anything to help those they proclaim to support.

The single point of the senseless squawking about "whats right" and "whats fair" is to create the appearance of caring, where squawking louder and more frequently equates to more "caring"... and where the squawkers can then pat each other on the backs for their "caring" and then proclaim themselves to be champions of right and anoint each other as un-elected guardians with some sort of higher moral authority by virtue of their alleged "caring".

Originally Posted by geedub (Post 19778193)

No wonder GFY is so busy today

Originally Posted by adelie89 (Post 19779537)

I believe that everyone SHOULD get what they deserve. If $7 an hour isn't enough to live, they HAVE TO increase the salaries. So $15 an hour isn't a big deal for fast food companies, they can pay it and they know it.

They are making BILLIONS of dollars, "capitalism" shouldn't be that greedy...

Originally Posted by adelie89 (Post 19779537)

I believe that everyone SHOULD get what they deserve. If $7 an hour isn't enough to live, they HAVE TO increase the salaries. So $15 an hour isn't a big deal for fast food companies, they can pay it and they know it.

They are making BILLIONS of dollars, "capitalism" shouldn't be that greedy...

Originally Posted by Vendzilla (Post 19778802)

In-N -Out is a huge chain here in California, they serve a damn good hamburger. Not a mom and pop, just happens to be owned by one woman that believes in paying her employees better and the service shows

Originally Posted by Grapesoda (Post 19779576)

used to be $11 per hour years ago... did it go up?

Originally Posted by amacontent (Post 19779571)

Spoken like a true Mexican.

Originally Posted by tony286 (Post 19779594)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3819478.html
Doubling The Minimum Wage May Seem Insane, But It Happened In 1949
They nearly doubled it and prices didnt go thru the roof and the world didnt end. Imagine that.

Originally Posted by tony286 (Post 19779594)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3819478.html
Doubling The Minimum Wage May Seem Insane, But It Happened In 1949
They nearly doubled it and prices didnt go thru the roof and the world didnt end. Imagine that.

Originally Posted by TheSquealer (Post 19779739)

Of course, because post world war/post depression in an industrial/agricultural economy in a nation with 1/4th of the current population and ZERO fast food franchises and similar jobs to speak of is perfectly analogous....

Funny how you guys are willing to argue that a free market will adjust, correct, find the answers and survive when it suits your purposes... then argue that it is the root of all evil when it doesn't.

Originally Posted by arock10 (Post 19779584)

$11 an hour is impossible to pay at a fast food place and be successful. oh wait...

Originally Posted by adelie89 (Post 19779537)

I believe that everyone SHOULD get what they deserve. If $7 an hour isn't enough to live, they HAVE TO increase the salaries. So $15 an hour isn't a big deal for fast food companies, they can pay it and they know it.

They are making BILLIONS of dollars, "capitalism" shouldn't be that greedy...

Originally Posted by xholly (Post 19779606)

Currently the full-time minimum wage for Adults in Australia is $16.37 per hour.
For the teens working in mcd it is less but any adult working there must be paid at least this.

Amazingly this min wage hasn't resulted in the collapse of the economy or society and somehow they even manage to afford to put a mcdonalds on every corner.

The minimum wage in the US for adults is a disgrace

Originally Posted by TheSquealer (Post 19779731)

The greatest weakness of capitalism and free market economics is that both assume the best in the individual will shine through. That each person wants more. That each person can achieve more. That each person is going to wake up each day and strive for more. That each person is never going to stop trying to better themselves, never stop improving their skills, never stop increasing their value in the workplace and never stop moving up the ladder of prosperity.

The problem is that idea of opportunity and prosperity and the fair and level playing field that allows each person to reach their potential,... doesn't sell as well as "hey man, nothing is your fault, do nothing to strive for more just flip burgers and just demand more because you're entitled".

Originally Posted by PornoMonster (Post 19779856)

Not for in & out, the amount of people that cycle through that place is crazy. Every one I have been in, was non stop Flow of people.. For people that have never been, it isn't like Mcdonalds, where you stand in line forever, wait for food forever, then sit down to a fast food meal like it was family dinner chat.. Oh wait.. ok

Lines move fast, food comes out fast for amount of people being served, people seem to clear tables fast since people are standing and eating waiting on a table...

I am sure it might not always be like this, as I do not have one local to me...

Originally Posted by Rochard (Post 19779883)

The best in the individual will ALWAYS shine through. If their best is working in a fast food restaurant for forty years, then so be it.

Everyone has the ability to step up. Not everyone the desire.

Originally Posted by Tom_PM (Post 19779876)

Whats all this bitching? It's a private company. They can pay whatever rate they want to as long as it's not below minimum wage. There is no entitlements, no age issues, no collapsing of societies, no nothing. They can ask for more money or better quality paper hats until the cows come home without it becoming class warfare. or can they?
:food-smil02

Originally Posted by baddog (Post 19779987)

Well, unless things have changed, restaurants do not have to pay minimum wage as they give food in lieu of wages. But it has been a very long time since I worked there.

Originally Posted by PornoMonster (Post 19779863)

What is the Cost of things over there?

Gas?
Housing?
Mc Double?
Gallon of Milk?

Originally Posted by The Truth Hurts (Post 19778298)

most of these fuckers can't assemble bun-burger-cheese-bun in an even vertical stack without major mistakes. that's assuming the one taking your order understood english and didn't screw up the pressing of the pictures for your one-item order on their cash register. $15 an hour? fuck them.

Originally Posted by PornoMonster (Post 19779856)

Not for in & out, the amount of people that cycle through that place is crazy. Every one I have been in, was non stop Flow of people.. For people that have never been, it isn't like Mcdonalds, where you stand in line forever, wait for food forever, then sit down to a fast food meal like it was family dinner chat.. Oh wait.. ok

Lines move fast, food comes out fast for amount of people being served, people seem to clear tables fast since people are standing and eating waiting on a table...

I am sure it might not always be like this, as I do not have one local to me...

Originally Posted by phoenix (Post 19780752)

big macs can go up in price...they are bad for you anyway