Why can't they just make it like in the picture?

@th3r0n barely pay people? its a beginner job, if they were paid a career level wage, they'd have no job, because no one could afford a $30 burger...

@wildbill83 I don’t think you get how things work

If you don’t pay people enough to make their job worth working, they won’t

5 hard working skilled employees could run most fast food places with big crowds, and make $13 per hour or even more, and do a good job of it

10 lazy people at the bottom of the barrel because no skilled hard workers wanted to work for $8 for a whole hour’s work when gas has been as high as $5 sometimes per gallon can be sloppy and make crap food and be slower than 5 good employees

Things are set up badly

As for me, I’m a network tech, sometimes I get paid $250+ in a few hours, but I wouldn’t want to accept a job doing fast food for under $20 and wouldn’t stick around doing it for less than $35 which totally isn’t beneficial to the fast food restaurant, but you have to think of what’s being expected, cleaning toilets and greasy floors and cooking and dealing with people, and remember what we wouldn’t want to do especially for $20 even in a bad situation, some of them are doing for literally $8

Your logic isn’t deep enough on the subject, it’s not as simple as it first appears

@th3r0n apparently you don't know how economics work; higher wages = higher overhead = higher expense = more expensive product

as it is now, many are already losing interest in fast food due to costs and decreasing portions. If fast food workers don't think they're paid enough, stick them outside in the weather doing manual labor for min wage where laziness and/or incompetence will get you injured or killed...

how would you feel if your auto mechanic decided he wasn't getting paid enough and did a bang up job installing your tires, brakes, etc. next time you get your vehicle serviced?

@wildbill83 I wouldn’t go back and I would complain, clearly, and in the end it would be the fault of the company that hired a worker who didn’t care and didn’t pay him enough to motivate him

I don’t think you get it, with how many they’re having to pay to get it done they could pay more per person to better workers and pay the same total with less staff

@th3r0n they might work at wal-mart, lowes, home depot, etc. where they just hire people to stand around; but the expense/income margin is too narrow to work in many jobs

there's also the issue of inflation & income differential; if we suddenly decide fast food workers are worth $20+ and hour, skilled/technical employees are going to start demanding more; wages increase, value of currency goes down, and after a few months that $20 has the same value as $10 did before...

@wildbill83 You'll never Win the argument, especially with an "entitled" attitud brought about by specious and illogical equality arguments.

"Created Equal" Doesn't Mean "Everyone Completely Equal Now and Always"

Somebody started up that "EQUALITY" Entitlement fallacy, Social Media Propagated it and Warped it further and it struck a chord with most lazy and greedy that They should always FREELY GET EVERYTHING only because they Exist!

😂 Toss that person with that attitude into and 2nd or 3rd World Country and see how long it lasts!

@Incomplet bro, I sometimes make as much as $250 in two hours, I’m a contractor, I do desktop support and tv mounting and networking and point of sale systems and alarms and all kinds of things

I was blessed by God with the abilities that I have and I was blessed by God to have the opportunity to do this type of work for companies that subcontract to me, and also blessed to be rated 4.9/5 with both of them

Entitled is wrong. This is not my situation and I think I’m owed something, I don’t think they should be given $15 minimum, I think it would be clever if they started those with no experience at $10, and could work up to $15 with time and consistent work and quality and speed

There’s no motivation for them now, that’s the issue we are addressing to start with

They can get another minimum wage or close job fast and easy and be making about the same, don’t have to barely work or work well to get the same pay, and raises are too little to be worth the effort

A righteous man would surely work hard even when barely paid, but unless you’re collecting a community of righteous men to be underpaid at a fast food place you need to consider the amount their employer is making and therefore get an idea of the real value of their work

If it’s quality work, the employer will flourish in that location, and people will like to eat there

Even fast food can taste good when made right, the difference is the workers and what they do or don’t do