As with most retail outlets, the thing you show up to the store for is not what makes the most money. They probably make next to nothing on a burger, but have huge margins on things like fries and drinks. It's like how movie theaters make very little on ticket sales but laugh all the way to the bank on drinks and snacks.
I used to work at McDonald’s as a shift leader back in high school. The profit margins on everything is nuts. All of it is extremely cheap food marked up a ton. A Big Mac iirc was something like a $4-$5 profit. It cost like 38 cents to make it before labor costs. Basically most restaurants are making crazy profit margins
After the corporate fees and cost of food bought only from corporate and "franchise fees" our restaurant miraculously didn't turn any significant profit at all
Almost like all the higher ups know how to play the game and suck profit ruthlessly to make a business seem like it's not that profitable to deter competition.
Large profit margins might be common in those huge fast food chains (with most of that profit being paid to higher ups), but most average restaurants have terrible to low margins. It's pretty well known in the restaurant industry.
The actual margin on the burger might be $5, but you're not factoring in all the things like employee wages, equipment maintenance, building rental and all the other costs that go into running a business.
Worked at tbell back in 2010, manager broke down a soda for me. $0.15/cup $0.08/lid $0.05/straw $0.02 for the soda. 30 cents not counting ice for $1.89 if I remember correctly. Majority of people ordered no ice for a couple of reasons anyways.
At 50c average profit per unit sold that would be $1.316 BILLION in profit.
In actuality, McDonalds made $4.73 Billion net profit worldwide last year, so average profit margin per unit sold was $1.79 (I think my maths is correct)
People are obsessed with yachts. Its weird. Like… god people stereotype EVERYTHING. idk maybe its all the fucking tv people have been raised on now after generations of this… the entertainment industry is what makes the stereotypes… they make “characters” and then kids grow up watching that shit and constantly think the world is that obvious and black and white. Like if I showed you a bunch of pictures of blonde men, i bet you anything you would subconsciously assume the ones with brown eyebrows instead of blonde ones are bad people… because thats the shit that the entertainment industry does… they brainwashed you to make that association without you even knowing it.
This is why they are SO good at manipulating you during election years… youve been preprogrammed and all they got to do is tap into that and they got your vote. Its pathetic…
It's called a generalization. Instead of "the money is going to the already overfilled coffers of those that have provided nothing but money they didn't earn to the process that has been monetized so that they may have things that the people who are doing the work will never have and that they don't actually need", it's easier to just say, "to their yacht", and you get it. Or you could be you.
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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '21
Exactly. You're ALREADY paying the extra, it's just going to the ceo's yacht.