[Vision2020] Minimun wage and burgers WAS: RE: [Spam 4.11] Hawkins mall

[Kai Eiselein]

I had a $20 burger in NYC last month. The burger was fine, nothing really special, but the service really sucked.
Why, pray tell, should a high school drop out with limited skills get paid $20 an hour? Many trained chefs don't even make that.


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> From: dickow at turbonet.com 
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com 
> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 13:02:37 -0800 
> Subject: [Vision2020] Minimun wage and burgers WAS: RE: [Spam 4.11]  
> Hawkins mall 
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> I rarely go to MacDonald’s, but seems that the last time I did, I  
> ordered a Big Mac, a large fries, and maybe a drink, and I think it  
> almost amounted to $9.00 or something. Whatever, I was still hungry  
> after I ate it. For roughly the same moolah you could go to the Super  
> China Buffet and get all you can eat of (probably) more healthful and  
> arguably better tasting food. I would suggest that the min wage  
> short-order burger joints have fare is already way overpriced, and they  
> should be paying their employees $20/hour anyway at the prices they  
> currently charge. But—as they’ll tell you—I’m no business man . 
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> By the way, you can get a really pretty darn good burger at Dick’s in  
> Spokane for $1.00. And, gosh, remember when back around 1968 you could  
> get four burgers for $1.00 at some roadside joints off the Interstate?  
> –and,  if you like catchup, they weren’t half bad either. … ah… but  
> enough nostalgia already. The workers there were probably getting $  
> 0.75/hour or were volunteers or doing mandatory community service. ;-) 
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> Bob Dickow, troublemaker 
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> Subject: [Spam 4.11] [Vision2020] Hawkins mall 
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>    1. Re: Developing the corridor (Scott Dredge) 
>    2. Re: $20 Hamburgers if Minimum Wage is Raised? See answer 
>        below (Scott Dredge) 
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