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    $15 An Hour

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

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    Again, this post demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the franchise business model, and the profit margins of the restaurant industry.

     

    McDonalds is a franchising business which enlists small business owners, rather than a megalith corporate stucture, to service it's customers at the retail level. Individual store owners usually opperate between 3-10 box locations; each of which, when running at peak efficiency, generates a profit margin of 8-12%. The restaurant industry abides by the following natural structural rules: roughly 30% of all revenue goes to food costs, another estimated 30% goes to overhead and opperational costs, and finally, again roughly, 30% goes to labor. The 10% remaining (or the 8-12% prior mentioned) is profit. Noting this information, a doubling of the minimum wage would drive labor costs to 60% of revenue. The 30% food costs and 30% opperations and overhead costs are both fixed and efficient, and account for another 60% of revenues combined. Your proposal ensures that restaurants actually run at a 20% loss for it's owners, nevermind cutting into it's profit margin. Why would anyone opperate a restaurant under these conditions?

     

    Please learn to spell the word operate, operational, and operations. It's no wonder you can't make a compelling argument. Most store owners I know operate much larger businesses than the little cookie-cutter you talk about here. Your facts are dead wrong. And you are forgetting that the majority of corporate food chain franchises are big time corporations with massive capital at their disposal.

    $15 An Hour

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

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    Back in the '80's many union contracts were tied to the minimum wage. Is that still the case? If so, isn't this more about the D's core constituency than the high school kid w/ an entry level job?

    Back in the '80s the median home price was $50,000. Is that still the case? If so, isn't this more about the financial industry buying our government & hypothicating the creation of debt?

    $15 An Hour

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted · Edited by NFL95MelGrayDomination

    A Charles Dickens Xmas

     

    CEO: "Jesus Christ, we can't allow people to make $15 an hour, how will we ever afford the Happy Meal Toys & our year end bonuses & stock options? We can't sustain this wage increase! These people are so lazy 1/2 of them aren't signing up for the free government handouts they'd qualify for!"

    Burger Flipper: "Thank you for helping me get Medicaid & EBT. Is there anything we can do?"

    CEO: "Don't worry about us. Our wages have gone ONLY gone up 127% over the past 30 years. Your wages need to stay low so you can afford our Dollar Menu. Never mind our wage increases it will trickle down. If your wages go up it will lead to hyper-inflation. In the meantime we are going to continue to funnel money to PACs that are hell bent on de-funding govt assistance programs. Merry Xmas!"

    Burger Flipper: "I'm glad you have all this money to donate for the betterment of our society!"

    Drafting small receivers

    in The Stadium Wall Archives

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    he was also a guy that was out of shape, had a questionable work ethic, and a bad rookie year. im not sure we wouldve righted that ship, but maybe.

     

     

     

    flip side being a speedy guy has an extended range as well.

     

    as someone said earlier, the biggest thing is to add the best WR available, not just the tallest, or fastest. theres a lot that goes into that, and no singular way to get to it unless we are talking the very rare type of player (that excels at EVERY dimension of the job)

     

    And that's the key point we are talking about here, the need for that very rare type of WR. When was the last time the Bills drafted the best WR in the draft?

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