Oh yeah it’s a fantastic idea. It’s just a bit too much with the final photo lol. I feel it would be hard to walk.
The burger is half a pound of beef. You are eating way too much if you are eating a full burger and fries.
I was ready to buy them until I saw the last photo 😅
They’re not that expensive unless you’re getting fries. One burger is enough to feed two people almost so you don’t really need fries, but the fries are good. I haven’t been back in like a year though so maybe prices went up.
Sorry for any confusion. I don't consider McDonald's a tipped server. I'm talking about restaurant workers whose hourly wage without tips is below minimum wage.
Oh I also don’t consider McDonald’s workers a tipped server. But that doesn’t matter. The law is if they are tipped more than $30 a MONTH in tips. https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/15-tipped-employees-flsa
That means if they get a single dollar a day in tips they legally classify as a tipped employee. So all these restaurants putting a tip option on their checkouts are fundamentally forcing their employees into a tipped role. Even if they only get $30 a month in tips.
But that wasn’t why I used McDonald’s as an example. I used it as an example because McDonald’s is everywhere. It’s in tiny countryside towns, other countries, etc. So those small businesses operating on thin margins were already competing with employers paying much more than minimum wage.
Fair enough on raising prices, but with chains I was thinking less about the increase coming from paying employees and more from "look, people will pay more!"
McDonald’s didn’t raise prices when minimum wage went up in a number of states, because it was already paying more. But in some places it wasn’t, and the prices of food didn’t go up even with a minimum wage increase, because the price of food is the overwhelmingly most expensive part of a restaurant. When McDonald’s prices did go up was when tariffs hit, when food gets diseased, etc.
I use McDonald’s as as example for all this because it’s a lot easier to see the effects of federal policy when you can compare against every single state.
Increased prices and closing of some small businesses seems inevitable no matter how you go about it, but we can't just rely on restaurants paying servers up to $7.25 an hour and expecting them to survive. It's a massive change and needs to come from the top down. And I can't see that happening.
Those restaurants have to pay that amount no matter what. Either it’s a hidden cost for the customers, or if the customers don’t tip enough they have to pay up to minimum wage for that state. So small business in California for example, already have to pay $16.90 an hour, if a server doesn’t make $16.90 an hour from the tipped minimum wage plus their tips. The costs are just hidden from consumers.
My mother in law’s previous phone died by 11am. So it would go from 100% to 0% in about 3-4 hours.
And what about people who’s phones are really old and don’t last long? And they can’t afford a new one?
Those restaurants do already pay more than minimum wage for the most part. Look at McDonald’s national average for their lowest paid employees. It’s $12-$14/h.
And like another person so kindly pointed out in this thread, they make 15-20x of $40/h waiting tables. Not tipping is not going to hurt most servers. It’s just going to get those servers to help change the law quicker.
That massive change never comes from the top down. It comes from the bottom up. That’s literally every law in this fucking country. If people don’t push for it, it will not change. Slavery, women’s rights, gender rights, marriage rights, literally all of it is bottom up change.
Chains raise prices
There have been so many studies on this. It’s something like, for every $1 increase in minimum wage, food costs go up by $.01. Businesses have done a hilariously good job of convincing citizens that any increase in wages will hurt the costs of food.
lol what. 1Password literally has one of the best security records out there. They’re the ones actually inventing new more secure ways of doing things. The fact that those are all of the issues over the years and they’re one of the most popular pw managers on the planet is pretty indicative of how strong their security actually is. And they’ve never had a password breach, unlike lastpass.
Man. I miss them so much from my childhood.
Who are Beck and Dean and Moby?