Posted on 12/04/2013 6:21:51 PM PST by grundle
A top executive at White Castle cooked up a spicy retort on Wednesday to calls by some fast-food workers to raise the minimum wage to $15 a hour from $7.25, arguing such an increase would force the hamburger chain to close nearly half of its locations and lay off thousands of workers.
"To more than double the federally mandated starting wage wouldn't be bad for White Castle, it would be absolutely catastrophic," Jamie Richardson, vice president of White Castle, told CNBC's "Closing Bell" on Wednesday.
Such an increase would force the closure of more than 200 of its 406 locations across the United States, Richardson said, with any remaining locations "glowing embers. They would be dying stars."
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Fast-food strikes planned for 100 cities
Fast-food workers in about 100 cities will walk off the job this Thursday, organizers say, which would mark the largest effort yet in their push for higher pay.
Protesters are calling for $15 an hour
...and minimum wage for NPR, NEA, NEH, etc. interns.
The “I-hate-capitalism” president is absolutely determined to destroy America.
And, to give him credit, he’s doing a d*mned good job of it, too.
Like what does an employer say to four of his staff when the fifteen dollars state he has to pay that? Tells two of his staff they have to go to be able to pay for the two remaining?
Automation
White Castle can pay $15/hour but it cannot pay the current number of employees $15/hour. (Profit per square foot)
It would probably double the cost of sliders.
Thats $31,200. I have a couple people I’d have to fire too.
Time for King Barry to decree that companies may not lay off anyone.
Republicans continue to remain silent on all of this.
Obama would rather have more and more and more people on the dole.
That makes then dependent on the govt (read that: administration).
just what he wants (and all his economic policies work to that end)
control. power. dictatorship. ultimate power. for then that program that damned teleprompter. exactly what they want for us.
“Fast-food workers in about 100 cities will walk off the job this Thursday
Walk off the job and don’t bother showing up the next day.
Whn are these morons going to get the obvious truth that ALL costs are ultimately paid by consumers. Socking it to the oil companies to “pay their fair share” just makes it harder for a single mom to drive to work. Double minimum wage just means poor people pay more for their food, and everything else.
Meanwhile, the so-called elites who buy the vote of the mob with the mobs own money are living well apart from those they claim to be “helping”.
Buy lead futures turned out to have been very solid financial planning.
If $15 is good... Wouldn’t $50 be better?
White castle burgers are perfect candidates for robo burger preparation, the mechanism for mass production has already been worked out for their grocery store line, all they need is some miniturization and a restaurant of 30 employees can easily be replaced with four guys operating machines with no noticable dropoff in quality. Protest at your own peril burger flippers.
Maybe they could adapt the Taco Bot 3000
I don't know. It's not like there's a shortage of jobs or anything.
So, how would a $50/hr min. wage work out?
.... Not to mention causing instant inflation as the wages of all of the Union workers receive their corresponding increase in wages that are tied to the so called Minimum Wage.
Do it. Pile drive the young into poverty so they eat out of trash dumpsters, and until they never, ever vote for a democrat again.
...but Bob Beckel on the Five was saying that some study by economists proved that there is no correlation between the an increase in the minimum wage and unemployment.
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