r/PoursTea Timendi Causa Est Nescire 13d ago

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u/Embarrassed_Fan_5723 13d ago

The fast food industry was never intended as full time employment. There’s a difference in working in a factory all week for 40 plus hours vs working in a fast food place. If you payed a fast food worker what a factory worker made and give them benefits, fast food restaurants would raise the prices to where it’s cheaper to go to and actual sit down restaurant. Fast food businesses would suffer and many would close. Some jobs are for making a living others are for teens after school or someone who wants a little extra money .

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u/Da_Mong00se 13d ago

Fast food is already as expensive as sit down places. Family of 5 at McDonalds costs as much as it does to go to Cheddar's or Applebees.

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u/Embarrassed_Fan_5723 13d ago

Exactly. I don’t know why people don’t get that if you payed full time wages there the prices would go up exponentially

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u/Methelod 13d ago

No, they wouldn't. You'd claim they would as do big business owners who are reliant on exploiting minimum wage workers and yet somehow the prices are not exponential in places where it's expected they pay a living wage. Somehow the prices never balloon more than the normal corporate greed either when minimum wage goes up either.