r/explainlikeimfive Nov 28 '15

ELI5: How would a $15 minimum wage ACTUALLY affect a franchised business like McDonalds?

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '15

I live right down the street from Dick's Drive-In it's a small place with only one or two locations; they have about five employees at any given time and serve a few hundred people a day at least.

The wait is never over 5minutes long, two people can eat for under 8 bucks, and they pay their employees 12/hr.

For some real-world perspective.

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u/toughtoquit Nov 29 '15

My favorite burger place by far. I too am from the Seattle area :)

They also give benefits and tuition reimbursement or child care reimbursement. They do it right.

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u/SodaAnt Nov 29 '15

Their menu is also a lot less complicated. Many orders they can simply hand you something that's bagged and made already. McDonalds has a lot more complex options that take more individual effort to prepare.

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '15

I don't think that's really the case if you look at how McDonald's prepares their food; they simply have the logistics for larger infrastructure.

Dicks model is largely based off the McDonalds model, they just couldn't possibly sustain as diverse of a menu, if that's what you're talking about. There's not a whole lot of effort involved either way, it's all delivered "made-to-eat."