Fast-food prices set to rise at McDonald's, Chipotle and others as California minimum

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Fast-food prices set to rise at McDonald's, Chipotle and others as California minimum wage hike looms

"Everyone is going to have to pay more," Jack Hartung, chief financial officer of Chipotle, said in the Wall Street Journal. The California-based company expects to raise prices by about 5% to 9% more at its restaurants in the Golden State to cover the costs.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/com...n&cvid=9dae480ea2214aa7ab5908aad543293d&ei=28


Make min wage 50.00...that should make a #1 meal about 48.00
 
Things cost what they cost.

People who work should be able to live on their wages.

If an industry has to exploit workers to survive,
it needn't survive unless it's an absolute necessity,
and then it can survive in the public sector.
 
NiftyNiblick said:
Things cost what they cost.
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A non sequitur

People who work should be able to live on their wages.
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Only if the work they do is sufficiently productive to warrant that.

If an industry has to exploit workers to survive,
it needn't survive unless it's an absolute necessity,
and then it can survive in the public sector.
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This is idiotic too. If an industry has to pay workers a low wage to survive, then they should be able to do so. Workers aren't forced to work in a particular job, so they can choose to not accept the wage offered and look for another job. That's how the market should work. If what you do has real value and generates a considerable amount of profit, you'll get paid well to do it. If what you do is something anybody could do, even a machine, then you aren't going to get paid much to do it.

There is no reason whatsoever someone should be paid a "living wage," however that is defined, to perform a job where their pay is a net loss to the employer. Shifting such jobs to the public sector just means that those jobs are now the equivalent of welfare with a minimal work requirement. Hardly a better solution.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
A non sequitur



Only if the work they do is sufficiently productive to warrant that.



This is idiotic too. If an industry has to pay workers a low wage to survive, then they should be able to do so. Workers aren't forced to work in a particular job, so they can choose to not accept the wage offered and look for another job. That's how the market should work. If what you do has real value and generates a considerable amount of profit, you'll get paid well to do it. If what you do is something anybody could do, even a machine, then you aren't going to get paid much to do it.

There is no reason whatsoever someone should be paid a "living wage," however that is defined, to perform a job where their pay is a net loss to the employer. Shifting such jobs to the public sector just means that those jobs are now the equivalent of welfare with a minimal work requirement. Hardly a better solution.
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I not only disagree with you totally,
but I also believe that you think people are entitled to freedoms to which, being social beings,
they're not entitled. That includes employers.

As for the idiotic part, TAG, let's just call us a little mutual disrespect society.
I think that's close enough to the opposite of admiration, don't you?.
 
NiftyNiblick said:
Things cost what they cost.

People who work should be able to live on their wages.

If an industry has to exploit workers to survive,
it needn't survive unless it's an absolute necessity,
and then it can survive in the public sector.
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Are entry level jobs at McDonald's meant to support a family
 
NiftyNiblick said:
No.

But need such jobs exist?

Kids shouldn't have to work.
If kids have to work, that means that their parents couldn't afford them.
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If kids need food stamps ..means parents couldn't afford them


But kids getting jobs teaches them responsibility being to work on time managing money etc etc
 
volsrock said:
If kids need food stamps ..means parents couldn't afford them


But kids getting jobs teaches them responsibility being to work on time managing money etc etc
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There's some truth in what you've said, perhaps,
but not being afflicted with the dreaded disease,
Calvinist Work Ethic,
I don't readily see it.:laugh:
 
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country... By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
 
NiftyNiblick said:
Things cost what they cost.

People who work should be able to live on their wages.

If an industry has to exploit workers to survive,
it needn't survive unless it's an absolute necessity,
and then it can survive in the public sector.
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So a 19 year old in college working part time 15 hours or less hrs a week should be paid a livable wage?
 
Guno צְבִי;5891905 said:
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country... By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
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So a 19 year old in college working part time 15 hours or less hrs a week should be paid a livable wage?
 
volsrock said:
So a 19 year old in college working part time 15 hours or less hrs a week should be paid a livable wage?
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He/she/it should be paid 15/40ths of a living wage,
but more importantly,
no college kid should work more than 10 hours a week
if he/she/it must work at all.

I was a professional prizefighter when I was in college,
spending a lot more time on roadwork and the gym than 10 hours a week,

then going to class, studying, and writing papers,
and in retrospect,
I can comfortably call it a poor choice on my part.

Of course, the school athletes did it as well,
but they were also paid, albeit with scholarships.

I've since come to the conclusion
that sports in general don't coexist well with academia,
and too much work beyond the academics
isn't a smart idea either.
 
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volsrock said:
Fast-food prices set to rise at McDonald's, Chipotle and others as California minimum wage hike looms

"Everyone is going to have to pay more," Jack Hartung, chief financial officer of Chipotle, said in the Wall Street Journal. The California-based company expects to raise prices by about 5% to 9% more at its restaurants in the Golden State to cover the costs.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/com...n&cvid=9dae480ea2214aa7ab5908aad543293d&ei=28


Make min wage 50.00...that should make a #1 meal about 48.00
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If you’re eating at McDonald’s, then you’re stupid enough to fork out that much for a meal.
 
NiftyNiblick said:
He/she/it should be paid 15/40ths of a living wage,
but more importantly,
no college kid should work more than 10 hours a week
if he/she/it must work at all.

I was a professional prizefighter when I was in college,
spending a lot more time on roadwork and the gym than 10 hours a week,

then going to class, studying, and writing papers,
and in retrospect,
I can comfortably call it a poor choice on my part.

Of course, the school athletes did it as well,
but they were also paid, albeit with scholarships.

I've since come to the conclusion
that sports in general don't coexist well with academia,
and too much work beyond the academics
isn't a smart idea either.
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so u didnt need a livable wage at 20 yrs old


most Taco Bell workers dont need a livable wage
 
Cali fast food worker? Get ready, your job is going away!
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California’s Fast Food Restaurants Prepare for Automation
https://www.pymnts.com/economy/2022...epare-for-automation-closures-after-wage-law/

What may be the world's first fully automated restaurant is opening in California
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/08/1223...-automated-restaurant-is-opening-in-californi

Robots And AI Power New ‘Fully Autonomous’ Burger Restaurant CaliExpress
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerd...urger-restaurant-caliexpress/?sh=28cf9dbc7fa0

McDonald's is going all in on drive-thru automation
https://www.businessinsider.com/mcd...-as-it-confronts-rising-cost-of-labor-2021-10
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Cali fast food worker? Get ready, your job is going away!
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California’s Fast Food Restaurants Prepare for Automation
https://www.pymnts.com/economy/2022...epare-for-automation-closures-after-wage-law/

What may be the world's first fully automated restaurant is opening in California
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/08/1223...-automated-restaurant-is-opening-in-californi

Robots And AI Power New ‘Fully Autonomous’ Burger Restaurant CaliExpress
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerd...urger-restaurant-caliexpress/?sh=28cf9dbc7fa0

McDonald's is going all in on drive-thru automation
https://www.businessinsider.com/mcd...-as-it-confronts-rising-cost-of-labor-2021-10
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GOOD!!!!!!


Than the blacks can attack the robot when the order is short the chicken dipping sauce
 
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Fast food prices have been going up for years. We can all remember when you could buy a burger, fries, and a coke for a buck or so. Why does this surprise Trumpys?
 
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