With the possibility of an increase of the minimum wage the operaterors will raise thier prices and lower their labor % as they have done for the past 20 years. So they will remove more employees to do the same or more quantity of business but not nessicarily the same $$. This will effect the customer service negatively and this is why I pose this ? for they take ( steal ) our $$ without really serveing us.
2007-01-04 05:15:05 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Dining Out ➔ Fast Food
I no longer eat at fast food restaurants. I am not going to continue to pay more for food that just keeps getting worse. Service is is almost never good (not that I can blame them with what they get paid and putting up with rude bosses and customers). My final straw was when I was asked to pay full price(s/a a coke at Burger King) for a cup of water (tap). That's just being greedy.
2007-01-04 17:34:27 · answer #1 · answered by blueeyedcat28 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I rarely run into a customer service problem at fast food places. People eat at them because they are much faster and cheaper then a sit down restaurant. Contrary to popular belief, the fast food places usually pay a dollar or two more then minimum wage so they will not be very affected by the raise. Also even if they had to raise their wages, it is only by a dollar or less an hour more so I don't think it would make that big a difference in overall costs. Plus raising wages is a good thing for customer service, since the employees will be happier which in turn means they will be nicer to customers.
2007-01-04 13:25:18 · answer #2 · answered by Roman Soldier 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I haven't given McDonald's business in almost two years. Twice last year, I gave Taco Bell business, but it was only about a dollar and the burrito was a GREAT reminder as to why I don't eat at those places anymore. I also ate at Burger King and Taco Bell a few times the week of Thanksgiving, but I didn't feel too bad about it. It wasn't my money (money donated to the church for the people who were going on the missions/relief trip to Louisiana) and I ordered as healthy as possible.
For about the same amount of time I can go in and out of a fast food restaurant I can make my own whole food healthy dinner. For a few dollars more, or about the same price (I was rather surprised at the prices at Burger King) I can go to a real restaurant and get real food. And depending on where we go and at what time, we can get in and out quickly if we wanted to.
Now that minimum wage is going up, I'm also waiting for inlfation. I kept thinking of that when it was being proposed in Ohio last year. (I've moved to Michigan where it was raised to $7.something and I've heard that it was raised in Ohio, too. That will be interesting when we move back in August.)
Yay.
2007-01-04 16:14:18 · answer #3 · answered by Laura H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am not sure about fast food restaurants but at red lobster I heard that they are going to increase there prices again to make up for the minimum wage increase, and try to keep hours down. so we will be back where we were .
2007-01-04 14:55:43 · answer #4 · answered by Mary W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same reason we continue to pay for, and eat food that is bad for us. We are a lazy generation - with very low standards!!!!
2007-01-04 13:44:07 · answer #5 · answered by Bondgirl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we have become lazy and accustomed to being served even when it is sub-par.
2007-01-04 13:27:14 · answer #6 · answered by verti 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋