How Much Fast Food Workers Earn In Every State

--This is crazy, Fang, but I'm a customer, too! What are the odds?

---I also operate a QSR that is approaching $400K in sales annually. We have seen growth every year for 5 consecutive years, which is when I took it over. These aren't amazing numbers, but given our lower socioeconomic market in the particular area we operate, it's a good thing. A lot of it has to do with understanding the customer experience.

 

Not what I said. And I'm pretty sure that you know that.

 

the right sure thinks they can... are you admitting they can't

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no one on welfare is living the good life.... don't believe the republican myths

"the motivation is to get something other than .................just getting by"

that is the point of a living wage, if working 40 hours doesn't even allow you to live without welfare.... why bother

working on welfare should be a better life then no work on welfare

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since when is working only 40 hours the gold standard? I haven't worked a 40 hour week my entire professional career.... I usually average 50-55 hours a week. The most I have done was 93 hours (and that included 2 days I didn't work at all due to it being Sunday and MLK day)


if you can't make ends meet with a 40 hour a week job.... get a second part time job for 20-25 hours.


whatever arbitrary way you define the amount a "living wage" is.... can be achieved, no matter if they are min wagers or not.

 

How about we end corporatism, and bring back small business - that way, these workers could work for small business or open one of their own?

Corporatism has triumphantly driven the sword of greed through the heart of liberty and the american dream, and is now standing atop its corpse. We need to end this charade and implement policy breaking up these massive corporations and allow small business to flourish.

 

First you have to look at take home pay in those countries after taxes, then you have to look at purchasing power of that take home pay. You will find they are not that different from the US. You can't just compare the figures without that.

 

Always going to be trade offs. In this case, you are going to ask the american consumer to spend more for each product that he was already getting at a cheaper rate...

 

Hey not to worry. Obama will turn MO loose on the fast food industry and no one will have to worry about flipping burgers to earn a living. Burgers will be on the do not eat list. Done..

 

Maybe then we will get burgers made with American BEEF, not tallow from the troughs at the abattoir. Maybe then we will see a strong economy based on local trade and ingenuity, instead of profiteering by tax evasion.

Personally, I believe if we ended the massacre of small business at the hands of corporate titans, we would see a boom in sustainable growth. Instead, we'll just watch the corpse rot.

 

Consumers dont really care about " american beef" . They care about cheap beef that taste good. Those who care about where their food comes from enough to change spending habbits represent a very small portion of american consumers.

As far as promoting small business and shrinking the fortune 500, how is this does ? How do you prevent those working for these corporations from losing their job due to the change ?

 

No one should expect to raise a family on minimum wage. Flipping burgers is a job to find a better job, not a freaking career. Who aspires to flip burgers?

 

We can start with zoning laws and remove "commercial" from the equation with the exception of manufacture and industry zoning. There's no reason why "commercial" zoning needs to exist beyond that facet. This alone encourages small business. Restructuring of the tax code and corporate law. Smart tax policies that incentivize small business over corporate business.

If we replaced every mcdonalds, burger king and wendy's with a mom and pop burger shack, we'd have far less tax evasion, far more injection of local trade and local commerce movement. If we got rid of Walmart alone, we'd see a return of multiple businesses per walmart. With increased prices comes increased pay.

Local economies would grow, which would lead to a reduction in poverty.

But keep these massive bloat machines consuming everything and we will continue to see pay stagnation, erosion of "classes" as well as the continued proliferation of poverty.

 

Let's forget about that (apparently confusing) thingy known as "supply and demand" for a second, and re-frame the argument....

In regards to Real Estate, do lib/progs understand the terms "Buyers' Market" and "Sellers' Market"?

If so, would one of the smart ones explain how mandating a minimum "living wage" will not result in lob loss in an entry level (and currently broad) "Employers' Market"?

In other words, if there are times when home sellers benefit from market conditions, and times when home buyers benefit from market conditions, is it not beyond the realm of possibility that market conditions might also effect the commodity known as "labor"?

 

Nope the cost of a McD's is higher, we're talking fast food where labor is involved.

 

Why?.....

 

What do you mean require the owners turn over half their property? The employees have no right to the profits of the owners. Or how about this win the company has a lost that month they don't get paid.

If an employee wants to share in the profits then have some of his money invested in the company and subject to the losses to which the owners are subject.

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If they want a share of the profits then they can invest and risk their capital in the venture.

 

Yes because the girl working the drive thru yesterday wouldn't have delayed opening the Window #1 for me to pay to pick up my food at Window #2 by her sitting their texting when she should have been taking my money had she been better paid.

 

probably because rent is $3000 a month

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16 yos needing gas money....

 

Don't have a problem with teenagers working at a fast food burger joint. Perhaps it also teaches them a good work ethic and to aspire to be something else.

 

Is this is the "I know you are but what am I defense?" How pathetic. The left thinks they can define a minimum limit for what people need. The right thinks the individual should have the ability to choose.

Well, if that isn't a defining line between conservatives and liberals I don't know what is.

Why bother providing for yourself when someone else can provide for you?

 

Why?

Since when are wages arbitrary? For how long have we just decided the value of labor by assigning it?

I was pretty sure that we had a labor market. Do we not?

Can you define a "living wage" for me please.

 

to me, that's what burger flipping jobs are designed for.... cheap labor, without any real workplace experience. it's a job that anyone with an IQ of +90 can do.... it gets workplace experience. Sorry someone thought they could live off of min wage for 20 years, and start a family with the proceeds....


poor.life.decisions.

 

why both working if someone is not gonna pay you what it's worth to do it, the only reason the right wants to do away with the min wage is they want to pay people LESS then the min wage, cheap greedy people