Fast food jobs should pay $7.25 and nothing more than that. No $15, no $20, and definitely not $25 an hour like the people in California are screaming for. Why? Because fast food jobs should be saved for teenagers learning responsibilities like how to show up on time, how to talk with customers even if it’s just taking an order, how to get the orders right, cashier/money management, how to open and close a business, and seeing how to work up to a manager, district manager, owner etc.
Fast food jobs should pay $7.25 and nothing more than that because once the employees are overpaid, then the corporations will raise prices on the cheap unhealthy food – and we’re already seeing that in action. Where’s the dollar menu? Where’s the cheap value meals? Why are three taco supremes about $10 now when they used to be around $6? For just a few dollars more, I can go to a real Mexican restaurant and get real food instead of the processed fake stuff that probably destroys your toilet 20 minutes later. I also think paying too much for these entry level jobs are stunting people’s personal growth. What’s the point in trying to be something better if you can beg for $25 an hour to stand around doing barely anything that requires a learned skill or trade?
But here we are living in the best and dumbest times ever. We have the best things in the world RIGHT NOW, but we have some of the dumbest things happening at the same time. I know a lot of people will disagree with this opinion, but I think jobs that require little to no skill should pay little to no money. Unlimited L’s on X reported this video (follow them on X here) and said the following about it:
San Diego’s service workers demand $25/hr minimum wage after the state lost nearly 10K Fast-Food Jobs after the $20/hr minimum wage was signed last fall
“If McDonalds workers can make $20 an hour…why can’t we?”
Hundreds of service workers, from cooks to janitors to hotel staffers are calling on the City of San Diego to mandate a minimum wage of $25 an hour for service workers
That is a nearly 50% increase in the current city-wide minimum wage of $16.85 an hour
Between last fall and January, California fast-food restaurants cut about 9,500 jobs, representing a 1.3 percent change from September 2023
Total private employment in California declined just 0.2 percent during the same period
