How do you feel about the fast food strike in the USA?

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thranx said:

The workers making min wage at McD's wouldn't hack it at an In n Out. In N Out has higher standards and thus pays a higher wage. I didn't know about the health care offered by Starbucks(although Mc D's also offers health care it varies by location). Also In N Out isnt really comparable, they aren't franchised out, they are corporate owned, so they can dictate the pay at every restaurant and have tighter controls on everything. Mc D's is franchised, so every location with a different owner may have different pay scales. We can do things like in n out, but what will happen is you will less over all employed people. In n OUt can do what it does because they very carefully choose locations, and do not over saturate. If McD's followed the same strategy they would simply have less locations, and less over all employees.  If these things can be done, than people who believe in them should start companies and start paying their workers 15 an hour. If its so easy. The problem is not everyone is the same, some people work hard, very hard, they tend to move up extremly fast in the food industry, some people dont work hard, they tend to not move up. If we make the starting wage higher we will just be hurting people who are trying to get a foot in the door work wise.

 

Edit: I know that its a reality that people are stuck in food jobs right now as careers. But its not what they should be doing, these are easy to train for jobs that require little to no skill or education. Just becasue the economy is in the crapper, and the government cant turn it around doesn't mean you make bad policies, that will hamper an employers ability to hire. If the government hadn't over regulatted many other business to death already perhaps there would be better jobs/careers out there for these workers to move on into.

Ok, have you ask you, what is McDonalds primary business?