Woooooo... price went up $0.05 to $0.25?
So the only thing preventing fast food joints from paying a living wage was a quarter a burger? 🤔
Dick's is LAUGHING at them:
https://mynorthwest.com/3177050/how-does-dicks-drive-in-pay-workers-19-an-hours/
They were going to raise prices anyways.
This is the wrong argument and I'm tired of it. The real argument here is - McDonald's et al don't need to raise prices because of the new wage law. They choose to raise prices rather than cut executive pay, or adjust profit margins, or make any other kind of internal adjustments.
This discussion needs to stop being "x raised prices because they had to and government bad" and start being "Billion-dollar-profit company is screwing over consumers because they can".
This is an extremely small price to pay for someone being able to live.
I'll happily spend an extra nickel for a shake if it means someone can house and clothe themselves, or a quarter for a burger for the same.
I make decent money (not extravagant, but I'm not exactly struggling at minimum wage), and this is a pittance for what they are getting out of it.
But conservatives, or more accurately, aggressively capitalist people, only see that their prices are going up. They're looking at "how does this affect me " with no consideration of helping their fellow citizen. It only affects them by costing them more for a burger.
Pathetic. Devoid of any empathy.
Padding profits, not covering wages.
This is End Wokeness so I suppose that's supposed to be a gotcha? Reminds me of when Fox and CNN were trying to bash Sanders in 2016 but they just kept making him look cooler.
News drone: So what, will you subsidize the health insurance industry then?
Sanders: WE'RE GONNA ELIMINATE THE HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY. EVERY MAJOR COUNTRY ON EARTH HAS....
News drone: Bernie Sanders hates jobs. Next up, should your cat be trained with a firearm? Stay tuned to find out.
I think a lot of people here seem not to be aware In-N-Out has crazy good pay for their employees.
A store manager at In-N-Out makes $160,000 per year.
I don't think they even pay minimum wage for their newest and lowest tiered employees, having always paid at least a few dollars per hour more than minimum.
So it's an exceptionally bad example of a business impacted by a minimum wage increase despite being in the fast food category.
Corporations have taken all gloves off price gouging every chance they can.
and the fries didn't even go up by a single cent
5% increase 🤯!!1!
That is all the price increase was?!
Fuck yeah! Increase all the wages.
I'm not worried about the fast food prices on a 5 dollar item, I'm nervous about housing, cars, groceries. Multiply that quata by 200 and it starts becoming a lil mo harda YOUKNOWHATIMSAYIN bruh bruh.
Minimum wage goes up slightly every year, but the cost of everything goes up slightly more.
It's just a brake on our decline.
Everyday life has gone from: single income 4 person family: no issues. All the way to: dual income, 2 person household: not enough money to buy the food required to keep doing your job.
Something needs to break, i can only hope it's all these planet ruining, greedy ass, underpaying and overcharging businesses.
I love how the guy is blaming minimum wage workers, who have no control over prices, than the mega corporation that used the raising of minimum wage to raise prices across the board.
Everyone's commenting about how it's obviously the wage increase that made the prices go up but also it's March 29th to 1st April, which is usually when prices go up anyway because the next financial year is about to start.
I would never, ever pay 25 cents more for a burger because I don't have to. It's a scam by the restaurant owner who wants to keep making money hand over fist at the expense of their employees and customers. You paying more has nothing to do with paying the employees more, it goes straight to the top like always. This strikes me the same as people begging for video games to cost $70+ bc they think that means the developers will get payed more. That's not how capitalism works
And it's still the cheapest fast food joint in the state.
I wish we could put caps on corporate profits.
I feel like this person is valid for saying this because it'd be a lot harder to defeat @EndWokeness's premise than just telling him he's a moron for hating a price increase for minimum wage.
There is a significant subset of our population that would gladly support slavery, or at best slave wages, if it meant the price of goods remained the same. Don't tell them how the sausage is made.
Did it go well for them on χitter, or are there a lot of bootlickers voting there?
I do pay that, but somehow, it never makes it down to the workers.
People are assholes
That's the reason why UBI and raising the minimum wage isn't a permanent solution for the working class though. They are good and provide some relief certainly, but in the end the corporations will exploit even harder, raise prices causing inflation that makes the raises unimportant, and use all that as a debate point to show that giving back to the workers leads to price raises.
Workers should still fight for raises, benefits and better contracts, but the end goal should be ending the system that gives the owners of capital all the power in the world.
25 for a double burger. Lesser burgers are not the high. Looks like it's 10 per patty, and 5 for cheese. I think I'll notice Wendy's "dynamic prices that totally doesn't count as surge pricing, stop saying it"
Yay! The humanity!
Phew! Good thing the calories didn’t increase.
Compare to the prices of double cheeseburgers at Five Guys. $12 each.
In n Out is boring meat sandwiches.
This is EXACTLY why we shouldn't RAISE Wages! Because Prices NEVER EVER GO UP UNLESS WE RAISE WORKER'S RAISES!
First of all, I agree with RBN. Most companies absolutely can pay their workers a higher wage with barely a dent in their profits. The payment is simply taken away from millionaires who spend it on luxury cruises and lobbying, or simply hoard it (which is even worse for the economy).
However, It seems you're using Twitter. I politely ask you never to post anything from that site here, because then people will need an account to respond. It isn't just the content on the site that is awful -- the website mechanics, like the removal of dislikes, blue checkmarks, and lack of characters, make it impossible to say what you mean. Tweeting your opinion is like trying to talk with clay in your mouth, or trying to write while your hands itch. As for me, Twitter does not constitute any valid information. All Tweets are useless prattle, and the massive presence of the site outside Twitter -- and the internet itself -- is a horrible thing. So, please, source your memes from somewhere else.
