Fast food joint pays workers $12 an hour, and lives to tell the tale

MSNBC ^ | August 6, 2013 | Emma Margolin

[Windflier]

Burger, Fries, and Soda = $10.50

Even with those prices, they'll have a hard time staying out of the red.

[grania]

If a fast food restaurant can get quality employees who stay with them, it’s worth the investment. Besides that, more efficient workers will help keep the numbers down, and avoid obamacare.

[cripplecreek]

I don’t have any issues with a private owner paying what he wants. Apparently this guy does a good business but a single restaurant can’t really be compared to a nationwide franchise chain.

Meijer stores are unionized and pay the bulk of their employees $12 to $14 per hour and they remain competitive with Walmart but again they’re a business doing business their way.

I have a friend who works in a small neighborhood bakery that only has about 6 total employees and she makes about $18 per hour. She’s been there for better than a decade ans shows up at 2AM every day and the owner thinks she’s worth the money.

[Wiser now]

This is not a fast food with a drive thru establishment. This is a burger restaurant. Big difference.
Time will tell how often families eat here before or after softball practice.

[Born to Conserve]

Walter Williams, paging Walter Williams.

[pfflier]

This is ludicrous. It saw a PA at the doctor’s office today and he made less than that. Much less. He had a lot to say about obama care. After our discussion he may be the newest FREEPER.

[Sacajaweau]

no tipping??

[WVKayaker]

>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.<

From the website online ordering...

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Fries
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[Iron Munro]

Get back to us when they can put up a sign like this one:

[FlingWingFlyer]

I wonder what the two pixies who own this joint will be doing this time next year. They definitely need a new website.

[cripplecreek]

If a fast food restaurant can get quality employees who stay with them, it’s worth the investment.

Yup. That's the one thing consistently missing in all these stories about the poor downtrodden workers. I hear a lot of crying for more money but little crying for more hours.

I once had a factory owner tell me that a good employee was worth their weight in gold. I went home and researched gold prices and went back with a tally and asked for a raise. He pulled out his books and gave me a rundown of what I was costing. We did negotiate a raise for me that day.

[cripplecreek]

Anybody know of this Moo Cluck Moo?



Michigan legislative action thread

[happyhomemaker]

In college I was hired as to answer phones for minimum in a pizza place. When I started they always had a least 3 phone order takers. Pretty soon Vinnie figured I could do the job by myself(which I could). After about 2 mos of doing it all plus stepping in to make pies he announced he was going to give me a .25 raise. I bought a $1000 car and got a job at a steak place.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

And he is doing exactly what McD's said they would have to do, his prices are double what you would have to pay at McD's for the same product.

So a 50% rise in wages resulted in a 100% price increase.

[Catsrus]

I didn’t read the article. Are these wages for full-time or part-time workers? If they are part time, then they aren’t making any more than someone working for $8.00 an hour with full-time hours.

[Figment]

They still get less than 40 hrs/week. It’s fast food, not a career job

[generally]

“We cheat the other guy and pass the savings along to you.”

[aruanan]

They still get less than 40 hrs/week. It’s fast food, not a career job

Unless you have the intelligence and drive to move into management.

[Windflier]

Sounds like a yummy, reasonably priced menu. They’d better hope their $12 an hour employees can turn and burn. They’re going to need to, if they hope to make a profit.

[tbw2]

A friend of mine was delighted when her two sons started working at Chick Fila for minimum wage. I congratulated these high school graduates for getting a job, any job. She said it wasn’t just the job - they got free meals when they worked a shift. Her family would be feeding two fewer young adults each day they worked, saving them a lot on their grocery budget.
I wonder how wide spread that practice is. If it is widespread, the minimum wage is offset by an hour’s worth of wages in food.