How about a nice taco chuckles?
Posted on 08/06/2013 5:07:41 PM PDT by big bad easter bunny
I know the restaurant biz very well, I can give you a very good prediction on what would happen if employees at McDonalds must be paid $15 an hour; The first thing that will happen is all the low skilled, non management people will be fired and replaced by line cooks with 3 plus years experience and newly graduated culinary students. If an owner has too pay twice the regular wage, he is only going to hire much more experienced people for obvious reasons.
One of the highest costs in the restaurant business is training employees, especially fast food, most worker bee's don't stay long because the pay is low and move onto better jobs, taking their training, experience and hopefully discipline with them but at $15 an hour, the turn over will be very low, it is a decent wage and in some areas would be considered high paying. Low turn over, less training, less mistakes better running ship, increase in profits.
Secondly the food will be better, people who choose to cook for a living care much more about the product they prepare than a person who just needs some income and their first job. McDonalds profits will rise because of less mistakes, better prepared food and higher customer satisfaction.
Though McDonalds will have to pay almost twice the normal wage, one well trained cook can do the same work of at least two low skilled employees, if insurance is mandated they will only have to pay it for one employee versus two, saving huge money for McDonalds.
This is what naturally will occur if McDonalds is forced to pay "a living wage" they certainly will just not to those who are demanding it, what a "watch out for what you wish for!"
That’s excellent - you are exercising your freedom to not support them. In the end - freedom is what it’s all about.
When I was earning minimum wage at a restaurant I was a teenager still living at home - as were about 90% of my co-workers.
We weren’t thrilled, but I wasn’t raised with the notion I had to be thrilled.
I was raised with the message that you have to start “somewhere” - and once you gain experience and skills you move on.
This is what upward mobility used to be.
I also was never told that my employer was a social scientist - or a philanthropist.
They are in business to make money.
No one forced me to work there, and when I left I received a great letter of recommendation.
I’m moving from CA in 10 mos., and I only hope I have the stomach to stay even that long. I have a contract that has to be satisfied before I can leave, unfortunately.
How about a nice taco chuckles?
That’s more information than I needed, but thanks!
See if you can take some people with ya!
Best o luck!
I know several people who manage fast food places and restaurants. The way to succeed is to get a few good people in key positions and pay them more. Much of the other work in food places is by its nature unskilled. You just need people who have a good attitude and show up when they are supposed to.
If you are forced to pay a minimum of $15 you have to pay the better people a lot more. The lower level employees will not work harder for the extra money, though you may get better people. It depends on the manager and his ability to get better people and motivate them.
In general, the restaurant industry is a lot of work to do it very well but really easy if you just go through the motions.
The people who run the restaurants should decide how much people are worth. They will pay to keep and promote really good employees.
Bobby Flay was a high school dropout who started out as a bus boy making minimum wage. He worked his way up and is now a multimillionaire.
That is a good reason to get some skills. So one does not have to rely on the government to make someone else pay you more than you are worth.
If someone put me in charge, I’d deport every single one of those stinking illegals and their children born here or not.
“You will get a higher quality employees at 15 / hr. Productivity will increase.”
Perhaps. The question is, how much more productive can a person be at flipping burgers? It’s not the most demanding task. Unless they’re going to be required to multi-task, which probably means that the people who are demanding the $15/hr won’t be the people who get it.
Just a wild guess, but there are probably much better reasons to obtain a skill. But even then, it's no guarantee in this world that you'll succeed or even obtain a job, but your chances will improve.
Take care.
...if employees at McDonalds must be paid $15 an hour; The first thing that will happen is all the low skilled, non management people will be fired and replaced by line cooks with 3 plus years experience and newly graduated culinary students. If an owner has too pay twice the regular wage, he is only going to hire much more experienced people for obvious reasons. One of the highest costs in the restaurant business is training employees...None of them will speak English, either.
I would imagine most McDonalds are franchises and independently owned. The owners are not going to pay higher wages or automate their restaurants anytime soon. Just my guess....
When the cost of these positions gets too high, they will be eliminated with automation.
Wawa Markets around Philly have kiosk touchscreens to order deli stuff. The counter workers now don’t have to speak English. Soon they will be Baxter robots.
“The person at the register will take your money”
Don’t even need a person for that anymore. Surely you’ve done self-checkout.
Exactly right. I make good money....when I have OT. These folks don’t want to work more, they just want to be paid more.
It’s all about justice for Travon!
and how much does business drop when prices go up 25%?
some idiots assume they will continue to sell the same number of burgers when they raise the prices
I know my family has already scaled way back on fast food because it costs so much now - even SubWay since the $5 footlong is now over $6 and with less stuff
Not a bad thing for us... not a good thing for the businesses
I remember making $3.00 a hour after graduating high school in 1978. I was glad to get it and never occurred to me that I was ENTITLED to more.
I also remember working 2 (14 hour) days in the sun throwing hay the year before. I got $20.00 total and I never did that again. $3.00 an hour for indoor work looked good.
Exactly! And whether you were “happy” or not- it was all a learning experience.
So now how many years have US teens been deprived of these opportunities because busybodies have decided businesses should be more concerned with social engineering.
I’m lovin’ it.
The jobs were never intended to support a family. They were intended for teens who still lived with their parents and just wanted pocket money.
Entry level jobs are just that: "entry level". After a few months on the job, you have demonstrated that you have the ability to show up to work on time, do some work, and not get into fistfights with the manager. This qualifies you to apply for something better.
All fine and dandy when there were mill jobs and secretary jobs and everything else to be had. What now when even a burger flipper job is a delectable prize to be fought over?
“Going back to school” is lunacy, and every menial job that has potential for a decent wage has a long line of illegals ready to do it for half of that wage.
Start shipping them back and we have a start....
And before anyone rages on me saying I support higher min wages...hell no, I don’t! Nor do I think some lazy entitled sack of shit should be paid a dime more than absolutely necessary.
At the same time...you have to acknowledge things are badly broken right now, and something has to give. The only sustainable thing to give is to reclaim the jobs ourselves. Anything less is going to merely postpone the problem, not fix it for good.
I agree. The US has a very limited ability to support unskilled/low-skilled people. The unskilled illegals must leave, and the unskilled underclass must be discouraged from having babies they cannot support.
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