Workers united!

Woooooo... price went up $0.05 to $0.25?

So the only thing preventing fast food joints from paying a living wage was a quarter a burger? 🤔

Dick's is LAUGHING at them:

https://mynorthwest.com/3177050/how-does-dicks-drive-in-pay-workers-19-an-hours/

Man over the last few years prices around me went up way higher than that and nobody got a raise so...

Except they were already charging more than enough before the minimum wage increase. People should stop blaming the employees and start looking at the business owners.

If the restaurant can’t afford to stay in business because it’s paying enough for its workers to live, then it doesn’t deserve to exist.

25% raise cost.... 1-2.5% price increase? I'll stand behind fast food workers any day at that price to my bottom dollar.

Still not buying in and out because of their ludicrous mask double standard, but if anyone brings it to me I'll eat it happily!

They were going to raise prices anyways.

They say this as though restaurants weren't just raising prices anyways.

That "EndWokeness" account always posts the dumbest takes.

This is the wrong argument and I'm tired of it. The real argument here is - McDonald's et al don't need to raise prices because of the new wage law. They choose to raise prices rather than cut executive pay, or adjust profit margins, or make any other kind of internal adjustments.

This discussion needs to stop being "x raised prices because they had to and government bad" and start being "Billion-dollar-profit company is screwing over consumers because they can".

This is an extremely small price to pay for someone being able to live.

I'll happily spend an extra nickel for a shake if it means someone can house and clothe themselves, or a quarter for a burger for the same.

I make decent money (not extravagant, but I'm not exactly struggling at minimum wage), and this is a pittance for what they are getting out of it.

But conservatives, or more accurately, aggressively capitalist people, only see that their prices are going up. They're looking at "how does this affect me " with no consideration of helping their fellow citizen. It only affects them by costing them more for a burger.

Pathetic. Devoid of any empathy.

Here in Seattle ($20/hr minimum) an hour of minimum wage is enough to buy A Big Mac meal and still have $6 leftover. In BFE Georgia ($7.25 minimum), you would need to work over an hour. Going to say one is better than the other.

Now do Denmark lol.

These price increases were either unrelated (there's a ton of geopolitical reasons the prices of wheat and other food ingredients have risen over the last few years), were purely corporate greed, or perhaps most likely a PR move.

Padding profits, not covering wages.

CA is a state that really tries to shake the scummy republicans out of its politics and sometimes they win. GGCA.

This is End Wokeness so I suppose that's supposed to be a gotcha? Reminds me of when Fox and CNN were trying to bash Sanders in 2016 but they just kept making him look cooler.

News drone: So what, will you subsidize the health insurance industry then?

Sanders: WE'RE GONNA ELIMINATE THE HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY. EVERY MAJOR COUNTRY ON EARTH HAS....

News drone: Bernie Sanders hates jobs. Next up, should your cat be trained with a firearm? Stay tuned to find out.

Coming from Europe. Those prices still look frighteningly low. I knew fast food was cheaper in the US but jeez.

Corporations have taken all gloves off price gouging every chance they can.

I think a lot of people here seem not to be aware In-N-Out has crazy good pay for their employees.

A store manager at In-N-Out makes $160,000 per year.

I don't think they even pay minimum wage for their newest and lowest tiered employees, having always paid at least a few dollars per hour more than minimum.

So it's an exceptionally bad example of a business impacted by a minimum wage increase despite being in the fast food category.

and the fries didn't even go up by a single cent

bad angle shot - tons of businesses didn't change their wage at all and had prices go up a lot more than this. how was that also the fault of nebulous 'wokeness'?

Minimum wage goes up slightly every year, but the cost of everything goes up slightly more.

It's just a brake on our decline.

Everyday life has gone from: single income 4 person family: no issues. All the way to: dual income, 2 person household: not enough money to buy the food required to keep doing your job.

Something needs to break, i can only hope it's all these planet ruining, greedy ass, underpaying and overcharging businesses.

That is all the price increase was?!

Fuck yeah! Increase all the wages.

The funny thing about using In-n-out as an example for this is they were already paying over $20/hour in much of California. The mandatory wage increase would impact them least of all.

Lmfao the fries cost the same

OK but what about the price jumps prior when the minimum wage wasn't a factor?

I would never, ever pay 25 cents more for a burger because I don't have to. It's a scam by the restaurant owner who wants to keep making money hand over fist at the expense of their employees and customers. You paying more has nothing to do with paying the employees more, it goes straight to the top like always. This strikes me the same as people begging for video games to cost $70+ bc they think that means the developers will get payed more. That's not how capitalism works

Meanwhile I just spent 10 dollars and a tip on cold mozzarella sticks and a drink that was nearly all ice at large food chain in Central America

I love how the guy is blaming minimum wage workers, who have no control over prices, than the mega corporation that used the raising of minimum wage to raise prices across the board.

Everyone's commenting about how it's obviously the wage increase that made the prices go up but also it's March 29th to 1st April, which is usually when prices go up anyway because the next financial year is about to start.

Missed opportunity. A $4.20 cheeseburger with 420 calories would be the top seller.

There is a significant subset of our population that would gladly support slavery, or at best slave wages, if it meant the price of goods remained the same. Don't tell them how the sausage is made.

And it's still the cheapest fast food joint in the state.

I wish we could put caps on corporate profits.

I feel like this person is valid for saying this because it'd be a lot harder to defeat @EndWokeness's premise than just telling him he's a moron for hating a price increase for minimum wage.

yall still buying fast food?

I mean not to shame or anything. But like, if you have a beef with the price of fast food, you aren't exactly guaranteed a right to cheap fast food.

Go eat literally anything else. Hell go dumpster diving, that shits free. You can take it.

People are assholes

I do pay that, but somehow, it never makes it down to the workers.

Yay! The humanity!

Phew! Good thing the calories didn’t increase.

25 for a double burger. Lesser burgers are not the high. Looks like it's 10 per patty, and 5 for cheese. I think I'll notice Wendy's "dynamic prices that totally doesn't count as surge pricing, stop saying it"

Did it go well for them on χitter, or are there a lot of bootlickers voting there?

In n Out is boring meat sandwiches.

First of all, I agree with RBN. Most companies absolutely can pay their workers a higher wage with barely a dent in their profits. The payment is simply taken away from millionaires who spend it on luxury cruises and lobbying, or simply hoard it (which is even worse for the economy).

However, It seems you're using Twitter. I politely ask you never to post anything from that site here, because then people will need an account to respond. It isn't just the content on the site that is awful -- the website mechanics, like the removal of dislikes, blue checkmarks, and lack of characters, make it impossible to say what you mean. Tweeting your opinion is like trying to talk with clay in your mouth, or trying to write while your hands itch. As for me, Twitter does not constitute any valid information. All Tweets are useless prattle, and the massive presence of the site outside Twitter -- and the internet itself -- is a horrible thing. So, please, source your memes from somewhere else.

Compare to the prices of double cheeseburgers at Five Guys. $12 each.

*$0.10 Math is hard.