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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/

Man over the last few years prices around me went up way higher than that and nobody got a raise so...

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.

If the restaurant can’t afford to stay in business because it’s paying enough for its workers to live, then it doesn’t deserve to exist.

They were going to raise prices anyways.

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!

They say this as though restaurants weren't just raising prices anyways.

That "EndWokeness" account always posts the dumbest takes.

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.

So a 25% wage increase resulted in price rises of less than 4%. This is such a good trade off that you'd have to be extremely intellectually dishonest to be able to be against it.

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.

Padding profits, not covering wages.

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.

CA is a state that really tries to shake the scummy republicans out of its politics and sometimes they win. GGCA.

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.

Coming from Europe. Those prices still look frighteningly low. I knew fast food was cheaper in the US but jeez.

and the fries didn't even go up by a single cent

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'?

The funny thing about using In-n-out as an example for this is they were already paying over $20/hour in much of California. The mandatory wage increase would impact them least of all.

5% increase 🤯!!1!