Not a single TV news station mentioned this!

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Ok, so pay the worker $15 an hour. But you then have to raise the cost of the hamburger to $10. Will people come in to buy a $10 hamburger. Not very many. Margins are thin. Soon, the restaurant closes. All the workers are laid off.
Perhaps the gov't will pay them to sit around...and the liberals have won again, hallejulah!

i ran a rather succesful pizza franchise for a while. i was quite generous with my pay and even in a low-mid income pizza store, i could easily afford to pay $15/hr to all my staff (of 20). Tim Hortons (canada) sells enough volume of coffee at roughly $2 a cup (plus other things) to afford starting wages of $11/hr in my town (plus benefits like basic health care stuff/drug palns blah blah blah) and pay/hour only goes up from there.

big corps have the margins to support this, in theory based on experience, for most low level income areas (10-15k sales a week) have a 10-15% proft margin. thats a week. once the mortgages and other build loans are paid, a business runnings expenses half. and that margin doubles. so in practice, most major fast food chains could easily afford to pay more and the only people who suffer most is the top level. they would raise prices to make the same yearly income. so, yes, an economy could sustain and only really gain from paying its own employees more. happy employees at home means less drama and stress related "mishaps" (food industry is very stressful) in the kitchen, would in theory benefit the company.

primarily, the only real people to suffer is the top level. the guys that skim the left over (profit margin) after expenses are paid.

if a company raised its prices because its employees wanted more wages, and they actually did pay them more and treated them better, i would shop there more often as that is a business i want to succeed. but thats another issue altogether to discuss is the need for people to spend as little as possible, making places like walmart and black friday sales so succesful. in part, we are to blame for what is happening, but we do not ask those companies to treat their staff the way they do to achieve this goal.

um, also good for them, most of those franchises lost thousands in one day due to loss of sales. so remember that if you think this wasn't successful.

Sounds like you believe what they want you to believe. McDonalds hamburgers are not cheap... For the same $6-7 quarterpounder "meal" that takes them ten seconds to make and costs them pennies to make(since the ingredients are SHIT), I could have made a completely organic feast for many in fifteen minutes, the amount of time it would take me to go to the mcdonalds down the street and back, while also spending gas. Organic food is not cheap either.

They dont have to raise costs, that is a hoax, a lie perpetrated by the business elite, all they need are a few good accountants, a smart business plan of equality and a corporate ethic that does not exude greed and massive wealth consumption (benefits at the expense of many).

A good example of fast food done alright is In N Out. They pay their employees better than most shit fuck corporate chains, they use some organic ingredients and I could get a much better "meal" for a couple of dollars less than McDs.

It is not the liberals who are winning... it is the fat cats. And it looks like that they have won you over with their think tanks and media propaganda just like the vast majority of the populous.