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.
Yay! The humanity!
Except they were already charging more than enough before the minimum wage increase. People should stop blaming the employees and start looking at the business owners.
Someone needs to compare the profits a company made in the year before and the year after the change.
Exactly, if the quartely profits are there then the company has no excuse. Actually they do but it’s just greed.
Ah yes, the infamous greed of In-N-Out who pays more than the average software developer salary for their store managers.
There’s a lot of companies that suck, but In-N-Out and Costco are two of the fairly well known examples of just how fairly large and successful companies could treat their employees if they weren’t leeches.
In n Out is boring meat sandwiches.
yall still buying fast food?
I mean not to shame or anything. But like, if you have a beef with the price of fast food, you aren’t exactly guaranteed a right to cheap fast food.
Go eat literally anything else. Hell go dumpster diving, that shits free. You can take it.
“Not to shame, but literally dumpster diving would be better than buying fast food you fucking poors”
That’s you, that’s how you sound
literally just said that thrown out food/produce is free. I realize the implications of the statement, but look at the fucking context.
this was OP by “end wokeness” Do you really think they care about poor people? There’s also a difference between bitching about the high price of food because you have nothing better to be doing, and simply not being able to afford food, those are two entirely different problems.
And besides, what i said is still true, that shits STILL free. You can literally just take it. Ideally we should be having a bigger conversation about the fact that we THROW AWAY PERFECTLY GOOD FOOD but no, right now calling me a piece of shit for mentioning the fact that you can just nab that shit for free is somehow worse and morally corrupt.
I will say, the use of hyperbole statement as i tend to do to satirize others is respectable, unsure if post history digging or if you are simply like minded, but i respect it.
Correlation does not equal causation!!!
Usually, yeah, but I think it’s safe to say that when the company is spending more they’ll raise prices to cover costs. Assuming that a price increase on the same day as wages go up was caused by anything other than the wage increase is kind of like plugging your ears and screaming you can’t hear.
Yeah. But for this it does…
Like, it’s not some unknown phenomenon. Business owners pass the increased cost to consumers rather than lose profits.
And that price increase is realistic. Margins are slim in food, so the labor cost to double wages is still pennies, maybe a quarter per item.
Hell, knowing capitalism it also raise the profit too.
And people would be cool with that. We’re already seeing prices go up more than this anyway. But if everyone’s pay went up, we’d all buy more shit, and everyone would make more money.
Capitalism is failing because people with more money than they could ever spend still want more so they can say they have the most. The number doesn’t matter, they just want everyone to have less than they do. So they don’t even act in the best interest of the economy. If the poors have money, they might give it to another wealthy person, so they keep it hoarded so it stays with them.
Now do Denmark lol.
These price increases were either unrelated (there’s a ton of geopolitical reasons the prices of wheat and other food ingredients have risen over the last few years), were purely corporate greed, or perhaps most likely a PR move.
In short, the answer is no. A McDonald’s customer will pay approximately the same amount — give or take a dollar or two — for a Big Mac in Denmark as they would for a Big Mac in the United States. In fact, in many cases you’ll actually pay less for a Big Mac in Denmark than you would in the United States.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/big-mac-cost-denmark/
Isn’t it great having all the knowledge of the internet at your fingertips?
Not only that but they taste better here too.
25% raise cost… 1-2.5% price increase? I’ll stand behind fast food workers any day at that price to my bottom dollar.
Still not buying in and out because of their ludicrous mask double standard, but if anyone brings it to me I’ll eat it happily!
The “problem” is, they already were profitable and making money, they didn’t have to fuck over customers. The owners just can’t even comprehend the concept of “making less money”.
That is the problem, but End Wokeness is not claiming that. They are claiming that we end up paying for the raises so we shouldn’t do it which is fucken bullshit. What 4000 years of mamon worship does to a mf.
It’s wild, they’re like, “OMG PRICES WENT UP $0.10!” like any normal person wouldn’t happily pay an extra quarter so the employees maybe wouldn’t hate their job as much and could, you know, eat healthy food, pay for shelter, and have adequate clothing.
This just makes me hate the C-suite that much more, narrow minded psychopaths.
Why do that when they can keep wages the way they are, claim at 10% increase in costs and pocket everything. Business is easy.
What double standard? Or should I say, double-double standard?
In California, and maybe Oregon, employees can wear masks if they feel it necessary, and they have to follow mask mandates established by the governing bodies.
All other in and out restaurants (not located in those 2 states) employees are not allowed to wear a mask at any time for any reason.
Goddamn shithole states
The state hasn’t had any say in it, it’s the company (operated out of California I Believe) that’s telling the employees they can’t wear masks. I used to rely on in and out as a pick me up after a bad day (like today), now I’m eating local.
I think they’re saying the states are shitholes because they allow shitbag corporations to pull shit like that.
Right, and the West Coast states aren’t letting them pull that shit.
As someone else here said, apparently In-N-Out was already paying $20/hr, they may have just used this opportunity to increase prices because everyone else is doing it as well.
Other restaurants apparently saw much steeper increases:
The biggest leap was at a Burger King, where a Texas Double Whopper meal cost $15.09 on March 29 but surged to $16.89 on April 1, a whopping increase of $1.80 (nearly 12%) for the same meal. The Big Fish meal also jumped from $7.49 on the menu before April 1 to $11.49 after — an increase of $4 (53%).
Also 50% less chance of someone spitting on or having sex with your food
*$0.10 Math is hard.
5.90 - 5.65 = 0.25
4.10 - 3.95 = 0.15
3.60 - 3.50 = 0.10
3.00 - 2.95 = 0.05
So it’s not a flat anything, but they likely did the first calculation they saw and rolled with it.
It’s also the largest increase there, so you can safely assume if they’re happy to pay 25c more then they will also be happy to pay only 5c more…
Yeah I was going to mention that as well, thank you for pointing it out.
The post clearly says 25c more for a burger. Yet the burger increased by 10c. Yall are bad at math and reading.
There are three burgers listed on that board that had a price change.
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.
This assumes the markets lack competition.
Yep, UBI trials worked exactly because they were trials. It was just for a part of the population, so “adjusting the prices” relatively to it would have meant that the majority of the customers would have probably consumed less.
But, make it a predictable, widespread action, and the biggest corporations will immediately find a way to funnel that “extra money” straight in their pockets. Probably while being so aggressive at it that it will have the direct opposed effect to the desired one: making the 99% of people poorer.
CA is a state that really tries to shake the scummy republicans out of its politics and sometimes they win. GGCA.
I just wish they would shake the scummy Democrats out too.
Here in Seattle ($20/hr minimum) an hour of minimum wage is enough to buy A Big Mac meal and still have $6 leftover. In BFE Georgia ($7.25 minimum), you would need to work over an hour. Going to say one is better than the other.
Point taken and I agree but I think $14 is a ripoff for a Big Mac meal.
I do pay that, but somehow, it never makes it down to the workers.
bad angle shot - tons of businesses didn’t change their wage at all and had prices go up a lot more than this. how was that also the fault of nebulous ‘wokeness’?
Exactly. This is just a greedy corp seeing the minimum wage increase as an opportunity to jack up the prices.
There is no way the increase in wages justifies such a pricing increase, with the volume they sell.
They saw an opportunity to abuse everyone and make the workers bear the responsibility for it, and so they rushed to it faster than matt gaetz rushes towards minors…
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.
