Work Reform

This reads like the wealthy realizing, in real-time, that the poor can't spend money they don't have, more than anything else. Like, no shit, dude.

Use your privileged position to make actual change if you care so much. He doesn't though, so he's not going to. Instead, he'll make sure we all know that we can get an entire combo for only $5. Wow! Truly a hero of the down-trodden, this fucking guy. I'd love to be proved wrong, but we all know where this is headed. His virtue signaling doesn't change that, just like it doesn't change that stunt he pulled with potus and all that it so clearly represented. Just more mealy-mouthed lies from another worm in a suit's all it is.

If you’re upper-income, earning over $100,000, things are good … What we see with middle- and lower-income consumers, it’s actually a different story.

When had this ever not been true? What a windbag.

Psst, hey, got a handy hint for you: you can actually raise wages at your business without it being mandated by minimum wage laws.

Lmao "the poors can't afford our shit... maybe now is the time to advocate for higher minimum wage" fuck off corpo dickheads

Someone actually figured out that a service company competing with a shit ton of other service companies in a service economy needs people that work service jobs to be able to afford their services. They won't raise wages themselves alone because it's not like McDonald's workers will spend the raised wages solely at McDonald's. They have other essentials and non-Mcdonalds services to pay for. They need every place to have their minimum wage increased and then McDonald's try to capture a larger portion of everyone's higher income that exceeds their higher labor cost. Stagnant incomes means non-essential services like McDonald's get squeezed out

"skipping breakfast or eating at home"

Look, McDonald's breakfast is pretty damn good, and is super nostalgic. But holy fuck 1030 cutoff and like $6 for a mass produced, frozen sausage patty, English muffin, and a Kraft single is insane.

Also, I just meal prepped us an awesome breakfast for the next two weeks. Like 15lbs of chunked potatoes, mushrooms, onions, hot sausage slices, and bell peppers, seasoned with Chile powder and garlic butter, oven roasty-toasted to golden brown, and tossed into containers in the fridge.

Then in the morning, I plate a big scoop or so of that and microwave it until it's hot, and fry two eggs with runny yolks, topped with salt and fresh ground black pepper and some hot sauce (like valentina) on the plate. Fork, toast, glass of milk or coffee.

Fuck you, McDonald's. Like 30 meals-worth was only like $35 bucks, and kicks the shit out of most things.

I look forwards to breakfast everyday now.

The guy probably donates to the republicans that help him suppress wages and give him massive tax breaks but offers up this nugget of wisdom the rest of us have lived with for decades now?

It's expensive. It's shitty, even for fast food. They let a rapist felon use one of their locations for a photoshoot to improve his image.

Yeah, I'm good on McD's.

I haven't gone to a mcdonald's by choice in almost 4 years now. When my meal rose from 12-13$ to 17-18$ I stopped going. Just for the chuckle I put that same meal into the app, it's now 22$ after tax. yea no I'll just go to apple bees or dominos and get more food for less.

Ohh I am sorry you doubled your price over last decade...

Did the wages double?

I hope idiots stop eating your slop... Deny the parasite profit.

this is the economy you helped create dickshitter.

As a Shareholder this man needs to be FIRED! If POORS can't Afford our Meals then we should RAISE the Prices so that NON POORS can Also not Eat our Food because for $15 you can get a MUCH BETTER HAMBURGER Elsewhere! And then we can FIRE Cooks too to save even MORE Money!

There’s always room in the CEO budget - George Bluth

The closest McDonald's to me has a local BBQ joint right next to it at about the same price point. There's zero value prop, but these dumb-dumbs had to realize it after they lost a shitload of customers.

Americans tried to escape Fordism, but eventually you need someone to buy the thing you're trying to sell.

Get fucked fascist burger “oh no leopards are eating our faces instead of our burgers” hahaha

Yeah, and if you could not serve dogshit quality food, that'd be great

I guess capitalism isn't always perfectly dead set on breaking itself.

More basic dishonesty from McDonald's and from Fortune. If he really wanted to raise the lowest hourly wages for his salaries, he could have done so already. There's no need to wait for a minimum wage increase.