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  • McDonald’s Raises Pay at Some Restaurants, but Workers Still Plan Strike for $15 Minimum Wage

    05/15/2021 6:09:19 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 55 replies
    Eater Detroit ^ | May 14, 2021 | Monica Williams
    The recent wage hike doesn’t apply to 95 percent of workers at franchise restaurants. Detroit and Flint workers will join McDonald’s employees in 15 other cities in a walkout next week. McDonald’s is boosting the hourly wages for some of its workers, joining a number of fast-food chains nationwide lifting pay as jobs go unfilled. But employees in Detroit and other cities across the nation say they’re still moving forward with a planned strike on Wednesday, May 19, pointing out that the pay raises will only impact a small portion of McDonald’s-owned restaurants. The McDonald’s wage announcement this week follows...
  • San Francisco Restaurants Can’t Afford Waiters. So They’re Putting Diners to Work.

    06/27/2018 6:58:37 AM PDT · by Simon Green · 55 replies
    The New York Times ^ | 06/25/18 | Emily Badger
    Souvla, a Greek restaurant with a devoted following, serves spit-fired meat two ways: in a photogenic sandwich, or on a photogenic salad, either available with a glass of Greek wine. The garnishes are thoughtful: pea shoots, harissa-spiked yogurt, mizithra cheese. The small menu is so appealing and the place itself so charming that you almost forget, as a diner, that you have to do much of the work of dining out yourself. You scout your own table. You fetch and fill your own water glass. And if you’d like another glass of wine, you go back to the counter. Runners...
  • Wendy’s to make huge move thanks to minimum wage hike… move over humans

    05/21/2016 6:51:49 PM PDT · by MarvinStinson · 52 replies
    bizpacreview. ^ | May 12, 2016 | Michael Dorstewitz
    Beware the $15 minimum wage for menial labor — it’ll eventually come back to bite you in the hindquarters. As wages for fast-food workers continue to spiral upwards, hamburger chain Wendy’s is fast-replacing human workers with automation. The company announced this week that by the second half of the year, ordering will be available through the use of self-service kiosks throughout its entire 6,000 locations, according to Investors Business Daily. It will be up to each franchisee whether to use the new technology or to stick with the old system. Wendy’s President Todd Penegor observed that some locations have already...
  • VIDEO: Young workers not convinced by $15/hour minimum wage campaign

    04/17/2015 8:13:57 AM PDT · by Kyle Olson · 8 replies
    The American Mirror ^ | 4/17/15 | Olaf Ekberg
    Not all younger workers are swayed by the sweet temptation of a $15 an hour minimum wage being pushed by several unions across the country. Media Trackers hit the streets of Milwaukee this week to gauge reaction from college-aged residents on a protest demanding a dramatic hike in the minimum wage. “I get minimum wage kind of sucks and everything, but at the same time, I saw a sign trying to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. You try doing something like that, and gas is going to be $10 a gallon, so it doesn’t really fix a...