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McDonald's Faces Teen Labor Shortage ("fewer teenagers working period")
ChicagoBusiness ^ | July 23, 2007 | David Sterrett

Posted on 07/23/2007 5:02:41 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay

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To: Screamname
LOL this is what I love about FR..... you must have remembered that photo and stored in the memory banks for use at optimum moment....good one
61 posted on 07/23/2007 6:28:12 PM PDT by Kimmers (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: digitalbrownshirt

Oh Man, why did you have to mention that! I went to Point Loma and I lived at those Taco Stands


62 posted on 07/23/2007 6:29:22 PM PDT by cmsgop ( "cmsgop" a Mark Goodson / Bill Todman Production)
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To: Tanniker Smith

I’m a teacher. No way I would eat any place I saw one of my students.


63 posted on 07/23/2007 6:31:18 PM PDT by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: Popocatapetl

If the problem is an increased focus on school programs and academics, then McDonalds need to do something to make a job there look good on a college application. High school sports and after school clubs look much better to admissions than a job at McDonalds right now. The college bound kids are exactly what McDonalds would love to have for employees as well.

Of course, my first real job was a research assistant at the Naval Postgraduate School (at 16 years old). So I know I’m an exception.


64 posted on 07/23/2007 6:33:15 PM PDT by dan1123 (You are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. --Jesus)
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To: jrp

I worked a Dairy Queen. We would swap hamburgers for chicken from KFC. When you work at one of those places all the food begins to taste alike.


65 posted on 07/23/2007 6:34:50 PM PDT by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: PLMerite
I’ll assume you were one of the few who know how to alphabetize the titles... :)

Windoze media player is driving me nuts. I'm trying to burn a CD with several albums on it that I want to listen to in order. I put them in order in the burn window, and windoze automatically re orders them.

10, 11, 12, 13 etc, OBVIOUSLY belong before 1, and duh! I OBVIOUSLY wanted albums 20-29 to play before album 2, and CLEARLY I am an idiot for not putting them in that sequence.

But that's OK, windoze will AUTOMATICALLY burn them in the order I'm too stoooooopid to place them in myself.

66 posted on 07/23/2007 6:34:58 PM PDT by null and void (We are a Nation of Laws... IGNORED Laws...)
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To: digitalbrownshirt
The first taco stand of that variety that I patronized was "El Norteno" on 3rd Avenue (near Palomar). The beef burritos were very tasty, but they were so juicy that a plate was necessary to catch the final "splash" out the bottom. I loved the machaco burritos at Alberto's and the carne asada burritos at Roberto's.
67 posted on 07/23/2007 6:36:01 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: null and void

MMMM, In-n-Out Burger, I always go there when I go out west. It’s been almost two years now but I’ve had an InOB more recently than McD’s(I don’t go there anymore). The place was swarming with friendly kids cooking burgers and fries, taking orders, cleaning up the place, etc., an incredible business. When I went to the McD’s in my area there were certain, ahem, demographically different people than me, that were not particularlly friendly, polite or courteous in spite of me always being so to them, it was obvious that they didn’t appreciate my business so I don’t give it to them any longer. They also started TV advertising to the gangsta rap and hip hop bangers. Forget that place.


68 posted on 07/23/2007 6:36:29 PM PDT by theymakemesick (Under sharia law, bacon will be illegal in Americistan, reason enough to keep islam out of America)
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To: fight_truth_decay

Read a complaint in the paper the other day about how one has to be bilingual to apply at some fast food restaurants.


69 posted on 07/23/2007 6:39:03 PM PDT by HungarianGypsy
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To: ontap
I’m a teacher. No way I would eat any place I saw one of my students.

Professor Snape? Is that you?

70 posted on 07/23/2007 6:40:12 PM PDT by null and void (We are a Nation of Laws... IGNORED Laws...)
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To: fight_truth_decay
"And the problem is not going away anytime soon."
 

It's a "problem" for McDonald's.

It's Capitalism for everyone else. Quit complaining, Ronald!

They're just angry they can't hire illegals anymore.

71 posted on 07/23/2007 6:41:09 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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To: Obie Wan
The $10 billion I believe was in sales NOT PROFIT.

I heard a while back that the average McD's franchise owner made about $100,000 to $150,000 per year. Not alot when you consider the time and money invested.

If a McD's is open 24 hours a day, with lets say 4 people on at all times that would be 35,000 man hours.

How much of a raise do you think they should pay?

If you dropped $1 million for the franchise, and property, and building, what type of return on your investment would expect?

How many hours a week would you work to protect your investment?

What type of return would you expect on your time?

72 posted on 07/23/2007 6:42:45 PM PDT by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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To: Reeses

>>The real solution is robotics technology

There is no doubt to me that the illegal immigrant invasion has substantially suppressed the introduction of automation technologies in all areas of our economy.


73 posted on 07/23/2007 6:43:19 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: null and void

I teach at an inner cities school in Dallas. Any questions?


74 posted on 07/23/2007 6:45:59 PM PDT by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: fight_truth_decay

May I suggest the obvious: increase wages.


75 posted on 07/23/2007 6:54:39 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Screamname

At least their parents never have to worry about those kids drowning in an open swimming pool. They’d be like buoys — all those kids would have to do would be to flip on their backs and they’d safely float until help arrived!


76 posted on 07/23/2007 6:55:28 PM PDT by Finny (Only Saps Buy Global Warming)
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To: ontap

Just one.

WHY?


77 posted on 07/23/2007 6:55:40 PM PDT by null and void (We are a Nation of Laws... IGNORED Laws...)
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To: mountn man

I knew a family that owned and operated about a dozen McDonald’s. They were definitely multi-millionaires, but I doubt over 8-figures.

Then I knew a girl who managed a Papa Gino’s (just one). She wasn’t doing so great, kind of poor.


78 posted on 07/23/2007 6:56:08 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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To: null and void

Chronic Stupidity!!


79 posted on 07/23/2007 6:57:33 PM PDT by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: Abigail Adams

my 15 yr old is just waiting to turn 16 so he can go out and get a job.


80 posted on 07/23/2007 6:58:34 PM PDT by Mrs.Liberty
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