If these people want to (or have to) work at a fast food establishment and want to or must earn $15 an hour, how about earning the right to move up to shift leader, to manager etc. and eventually own their own franchise?

Think I'll have to get to work building an automated burger flipping machine. Might be an emerging market. Touch screen self-order terminals, automated french fry dippers. Think of the potential! No spit in your burger, fresh, hot, perfectly salted fries... yum.

The $15.00 farce... Please please please let us understand the purpose of 15.00 an hour. It really does not mean anything economically as it is clearly... un-reasonable. I pay my employees a fair wage...between 10 and 16 and provide health care and dental. Many own homes and have children they support. So lets all agree that this number is arbitrary... so where did it come from. here's my take.

So a guy walks into a fast food joint. Lets call him COLO (community organizer / labor organizer) He pulls the fry cook aside and asks him... If I told you I could get you 10.00 an hour if you joined a union...would you do it? The guys says...I can't afford to pay your dues from that, so no.

The conversation continues until they reach 15.00 an hour. At 15.00 an hour the guy is willing to listen to the COLO's chit chat and puffery and willing to consider the restraints and costs of a labor union. Below 15.00 an hour its just not worth the hassle.

So given that I'm pretty sure this movement is not driven internally, but by labor unions who are seeing their membership dropping through the basement, they had to throw out a pie in the sky number that the fry cook was willing to go for.

In the end, the labor union will be invited in to the last bill's big boi with their 4 employees by secret ballot. They will get their 1.50 an hour raise and have to give the equivalent of 2.00 an hour to the union...

Do it!!!!

Demanding things instead of earning them is the wave we're in. Being the "victim" gets attention and sympathy. This "living wage" argument kills me. When has a job at McDonald's EVER been enough to live on?? All of a sudden it should be. This has all been concocted by the socialist unions. And the workers lap it up like it makes a lick of sense. I'm almost embarrassed for them...except l like it too much when people show their true value.

If these people would apply as much effort at improving there skill set they would have no need of a strike. Between the government, schools and the lame parents instilling an entitlement attitude, it is a wonder a cheeseburger doesn't cost more than a porterhouse... If flipping burgers pays enough to thrive on why move on? Why become a doctor or any other occupation that requires higher learning and skills? They will shoot themselves in the foot when the jobs evaporate... I say fire the lot. I heard the average profit from fast food franchise ownership is only between 50,000 and 100,000... Not much considering the investment and risk.

I want more than the market will bear... good plan... NOT! "Want fries with that?" Do I qualify?

lol

whoa, at first I thought Rob made this comment

Market can bear? What's that mean... these rich fat cats have so much money they can afford to pay us more!!
(Sorry I flipped into entitlement mind set there for a second.... These people are so lost in their own sense of entitlement I don't even know where to begin. At the moment I'm blaming public schools for instilling this brainlessness.)