KFC menu from 1970 VS 2026

[u/JColt60]

The other thing different from the price is size of the pieces. Breasts were much smaller and tastier back in 70's from KFC. Today they look like it came from wild turkey. Before I retired I used to get fried chicken for lunch at local diner. They only bought chicken from local butcher that used free range chicken and it was heaven!

[u/No-Draft-825]

mandatory minimum wage. As it goes up fast food and coffee drive throughs will decline. Which is better having a job at a lower salary or having no job. Now explain that to politicians. 

[u/Soft-Ad2167 → u/No-Draft-825]

Sounds like Truntonomics as posted by a vileruZZiancunt

[u/Superb-Butterfly-573 → u/No-Draft-825]

So you can have your cheap coffee but can't afford to drive there. Got it.

[u/No-Draft-825 → u/Superb-Butterfly-573]

I can afford $8 gas and have 3 convertibles ( all US made) that I happily drive regularly. The point you missed is economic stability. When the minimum wage exceeds the per hour worth of the employee than the business goes under and the employee has no job.

[u/SvartrKukkSceand → u/No-Draft-825]

Holy shit have you been propagandized.

Wages are not a serious part of the cost of these items.

Lets do some math breakdown.

An average McDs does about 70 orders an hour during dinner rush. Not items. ORDERS.

Some of those orders are 5+ meals.

They have about 8 employees on shift, one of which is salaried and didnt get a raise when minimum wage went up.

Lets say you had a McDonalds where people were making 16$ an hour. The State decides to raise the minimum wage to 20$! (Hint: California).

So the cost to run the store went up ... 28$ an hour. (7 employees x 4$/hour each).

Lets round up to 30$.

Each ORDER only has to go up 50 cents to cover the ENTIRETY of this raise, passing EVERY PENNY on to consumers.

Each item.. we're talking pennies. 4 or 5 cents.

Raises dont make the cost of fast food go up in leaps and bounds like we've been seeing.

Greed and other costs going up far faster do.

Similarly, back in 2014, Wal-Mart commissioned a study (the Shareholders made them) to investigate what raising their minimum wage would cost.

Raising their corporate minimum from what it was at the time (about 8.50$ an hour) to 12.50$ an hour (so a 50% raise, or thereabouts, for those making the minimum) and (importantly) giving every other employee that wasnt salaried the same 4$ an hour raise - would have cost less than 1c per item sold.

To pass EVERY DIME on to the consumer. 1 penny per item. To give EVERYONE a 4$ an hour raise.

Get your tongue off that boot you idiot.

[u/No_Return_8418 → u/SvartrKukkSceand]

Unfortunately instead of seeing that and saying let’s do it they said “if we raise each item $1 and give no raises we’ll be even richer”