Posted on 08/14/2013 5:42:28 PM PDT by EveningStar
Over the past four months, fast food workers have walked off the job in a wave of protests and strikes across the country to demand a higher minimum wage and the freedom to unionize.
But in Dearborn Heights, Mich., a city just outside of Detroit, a new burger joint is trying to give workers a reason to clock-in to work each day.
Moo Cluck Moo is paying its workers a minimum wage of $12 per hour, over four dollars more than Michigan’s $7.40 per hour minimum wage.
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Other media outlets have reported on this too.
Guarantee you the owners are running this business at a loss, just to make a point. There’s no way the market will support $12 an hour burger flippers.
The crucial point here is that the restaurant is OPTING to pay their workers this much, not being FORCED to do so.
Burger, Fries, and Soda = $10.50
Perzactly.
They call it a “new” restaurant.
So how much staying power does this economic model have?
I can open one and pay $50/hour for a week....
Well they will have to sell in volume a big volume. Time will tell.
Once they up the wage to $15 or $20 an hour for making fast food, the owners will simply pass that cost onto the consumer. I don’t even eat fast food anymore, but if I did, I sure would not pay $35.00 for a fast food meal. All they will do is destroy businesses.
Exactly! This is still America and an employer can pay anyone however much they want! This just proves that we don’t need minimum wage laws. Let the market make the call. Oh, and it also proves that Unions are superfluous.
It’s not how much an hour workers are paid it’s how productive they are required to be and how many workers they employ per dollar revenue.
Most fast food stores have low productivity requirements and make up for that with over manning and low wages.
The answer is simple. Without the stupid corporate template provided by McDonald’s, they hired smarter, faster-working employees. Instead of employing 18 dolts who have to be told what to do for $8 an hour, they employ 12 sharp guys who can do whatever work there is for $12 an hour. It comes to the same wage bill, but they save on FUI and SUI.
We have a winner!
It’s up to the owner to decide if it makes sense to pay a higher wage.
Right. Let’s revisit this institution in a year. I suspect that things will be different if it survives at all.
“We manage our costs effectively, we use the best product that we can afford, and we pass that along to our employees,”
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Looks a little better than your normal fast food place.
$3 -$5 for a burger. No dollar menu.
At current wage rates, it's likely competitive with automation. I'd bet that at $15/hour, the McJobbers mostly become McRobots, just like Baraq's beloved bank tellers became ATMs.
They'd literally have to move two and a half times the volume of similar stores to turn a profit. I'll tell you right now - they're not making money on this venture. They're trying to make a statement.
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