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Andrew Cuomo, who appointed the wage board that recommended the wage hike, called its proposal an important first step.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will not stop until we reach true economic justice and we raise the minimum wage for every worker in every job in this state,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fast-food industry is one of New York's biggest employers of low-wage workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randy Mastro, an attorney for fast-food franchise holders, says his clients are being unfairly targeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are many other similarly situated restaurants, diners, food counters, not included in this proposal,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also could affect business growth, hiring and competition in the state, says Carolyn Richmond, who represents restaurant owners in the New York City Hospitality Alliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the proposed wage hike would mean that some of her clients won't be able to hire more workers, and that smaller fast-food chains that want to expand might think twice before opening in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The increase, which boosts the minimum wage for many fast-food workers from $8.75 to $15 over several years, needs the labor commissioner's OK. Franchise holders say they're being targeted unfairly.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1437669364,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":384},"headData":{"title":"Fast-Food Workers Cheer As $15 Minimum Wage Advances In New York State | KQED","description":"The increase, which boosts the minimum wage for many fast-food workers from $8.75 to $15 over several years, needs the labor commissioner's OK. Franchise holders say they're being targeted unfairly.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"98389 http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=98389","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2015/07/23/fast-food-workers-cheer-as-15-minimum-wage-advances-in-new-york-state/","disqusTitle":"Fast-Food Workers Cheer As $15 Minimum Wage Advances In New York State","nprByline":"Hansi Lo Wang, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/nprfood/\">NPR Food\u003c/a>","nprStoryId":"425460095","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=425460095&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/07/23/425460095/fast-food-workers-cheer-as-15-minimum-wage-advances-in-new-york-state?ft=nprml&f=425460095","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Thu, 23 Jul 2015 09:40:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Thu, 23 Jul 2015 04:30:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Thu, 23 Jul 2015 09:15:31 -0400","nprAudio":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2015/07/20150723_me_fast-food_workers_cheer_as_15_minimum_wage_advances_in_new_york_state.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1017&d=152&p=3&story=425460095&t=progseg&e=425507632&seg=7&ft=nprml&f=425460095","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/1425512002-77d167.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1017&d=152&p=3&story=425460095&t=progseg&e=425507632&seg=7&ft=nprml&f=425460095","path":"/bayareabites/98389/fast-food-workers-cheer-as-15-minimum-wage-advances-in-new-york-state","audioUrl":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2015/07/20150723_me_fast-food_workers_cheer_as_15_minimum_wage_advances_in_new_york_state.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1017&d=152&p=3&story=425460095&t=progseg&e=425507632&seg=7&ft=nprml&f=425460095","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story on Morning Edition:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nhttp://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2015/07/20150723_me_fast-food_workers_cheer_as_15_minimum_wage_advances_in_new_york_state.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There aren't a lot of obscure government board meetings that warrant a watch party, let alone one with a marching band.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that's how fast-food restaurant workers and their supporters celebrated Wednesday on a blocked-off street in Manhattan, as they watched a state panel recommend a $6.25 increase in their hourly wage, to $15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a victory! We have been fighting, and today we have made history,\" said Alvin Major, a 49-year-old cook at a KFC restaurant in Brooklyn. He said a $15 minimum wage would mean that he could stop relying on food stamps to feed his family of six.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This will help me to take care of my kids, send them to the right school and put food on the table,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bump to $15 an hour in New York, which would affect workers at chains with 30 or more stores nationally, would match recent increases in San Francisco, Seattle and Los Angeles. It would take effect over the next three years for New York City, and over the next six years for the entire state, if the state's labor commissioner approves the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who appointed the wage board that recommended the wage hike, called its proposal an important first step.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will not stop until we reach true economic justice and we raise the minimum wage for every worker in every job in this state,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fast-food industry is one of New York's biggest employers of low-wage workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randy Mastro, an attorney for fast-food franchise holders, says his clients are being unfairly targeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are many other similarly situated restaurants, diners, food counters, not included in this proposal,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also could affect business growth, hiring and competition in the state, says Carolyn Richmond, who represents restaurant owners in the New York City Hospitality Alliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the proposed wage hike would mean that some of her clients won't be able to hire more workers, and that smaller fast-food chains that want to expand might think twice before opening in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/98389/fast-food-workers-cheer-as-15-minimum-wage-advances-in-new-york-state","authors":["byline_bayareabites_98389"],"categories":["bayareabites_1962","bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_34"],"tags":["bayareabites_12104","bayareabites_11502","bayareabites_11505","bayareabites_2569","bayareabites_72"],"featImg":"bayareabites_98390","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_93172":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_93172","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"93172","score":null,"sort":[1423782081000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"like-yelp-for-labor-rights-this-app-rates-how-restaurants-treat-workers","title":"Like Yelp For Labor Rights: This App Rates How Restaurants Treat Workers","publishDate":1423782081,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93173\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/shake-shack_enl-a02246c49d40189189853882254820982818c94f-e1423781902687.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/shake-shack_enl-a02246c49d40189189853882254820982818c94f-e1423781902687.jpg\" alt=\"Customers pick up their orders from a Shake Shack in New York City. It's one of the restaurants whose labor practices are detailed in the ROC United Diners' Guide app. Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images\" width=\"1000\" height=\"645\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93173\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/shake-shack_enl-a02246c49d40189189853882254820982818c94f-e1423781902687.jpg 1000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/shake-shack_enl-a02246c49d40189189853882254820982818c94f-e1423781902687-400x258.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/shake-shack_enl-a02246c49d40189189853882254820982818c94f-e1423781902687-800x516.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/shake-shack_enl-a02246c49d40189189853882254820982818c94f-e1423781902687-768x495.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/shake-shack_enl-a02246c49d40189189853882254820982818c94f-e1423781902687-320x206.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Customers pick up their orders from a Shake Shack in New York City. It's one of the restaurants whose labor practices are detailed in the ROC United Diners' Guide app. Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Poncie Rutsch, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/02/12/385739008/like-yelp-for-labor-rights-this-app-rates-how-restaurants-treat-workers\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (2/12/15)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restaurant servers are three times more likely to \u003ca href=\"http://rocunited.org/tipped-over-the-edge-gender-inequity-in-the-restaurant-industry/\">receive below-poverty-line\u003c/a> pay than the rest of the U.S. workforce. Yet in a world where shoppers fret over cage-free eggs and organic vegetables, how many are also asking how much their favorite restaurant pays its staff?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An app from \u003ca href=\"http://rocunited.org/\">Restaurant Opportunities Centers United\u003c/a>, an organization of restaurant workers, employers and customers, aims to encourage diners to ask those kinds of questions about the welfare of industry workers. Think of it as a kind of Yelp for labor rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://rocunited.org/dinersguide/\">ROC United Diners' Guide\u003c/a> app lets diners investigate the policies at restaurants in the U.S. When a user enters her location, the app brings up a few local restaurants and shows whether they pay their staffs a living wage and offer a few basic benefits, like paid sick leave. When the user swipes left, the app shows and evaluates the top 100 chain restaurants in the U.S. – so you can see how they stack up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The app actually rolled out a \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/12/10/166671273/want-to-find-a-restaurant-that-treats-workers-well-theres-an-app-for-that\">couple of years ago,\u003c/a> but an updated version offers a new twist: crowdsourcing. ROC officials hope this component will quickly help expand the list, which currently offers detailed information for only about 150 restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your restaurant of choice isn't on the list, the app encourages you to talk to a manager about the establishment's policies. Users can then create an entry for the restaurant and fill out as much as they know about its wages and practices. The information they submit goes to ROC's staff, who verify the details before adding it to the list of restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That feature isn't just about enlisting diners to do ROC's legwork, says Maria Myotte, the group's national communications coordinator. Every time diners reach out directly to a restaurant manager, they are demonstrating that these issues are important, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want it to be less of an easy 'here's what you can use' list and more of an engagement tool,\" Myotte says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Non-chain restaurants listed on the app appear under a category called \"high road.\" They are rated on four different criteria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/app-1_enl-36fe49df3f0961f5ddc0c2ccc794b31574cc290c-e1423781979530.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/app-1_enl-36fe49df3f0961f5ddc0c2ccc794b31574cc290c-e1423781979530.jpg\" alt=\"A screenshot of the app from Restaurant Opportunities Centers United. Photo: Meredith Rizzo/NPR\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93174\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/app-1_enl-36fe49df3f0961f5ddc0c2ccc794b31574cc290c-e1423781979530.jpg 1000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/app-1_enl-36fe49df3f0961f5ddc0c2ccc794b31574cc290c-e1423781979530-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/app-1_enl-36fe49df3f0961f5ddc0c2ccc794b31574cc290c-e1423781979530-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/app-1_enl-36fe49df3f0961f5ddc0c2ccc794b31574cc290c-e1423781979530-768x511.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/app-1_enl-36fe49df3f0961f5ddc0c2ccc794b31574cc290c-e1423781979530-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of the app from Restaurant Opportunities Centers United. Photo: Meredith Rizzo/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first and second criteria are related to wages: The restaurant must pay its non-tipped workers at least $10 an hour. And tipped staff must earn at least $7 an hour to make the list. That's higher than the federal minimum wage for anyone who earns tips — just $2.13 an hour, a number that hasn't increased since 1991. (As we've reported, some states have \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/02/06/272469496/after-23-years-your-waiter-is-ready-for-a-raise\">higher tip minimum wages\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next, the restaurant must give all employees paid sick days. \"Working while sick is so commonplace,\"\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>says Myotte, because most restaurant workers can't afford to take a day off without pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have heard from our workers that they face termination or [that] colleagues have been fired for not showing up\" when they are sick, says Myotte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paid sick days, Myotte says, should really be a no-brainer. Foodborne \u003ca href=\"http://cspinet.org/reports/outbreakalert2014.pdf\">illness moves quickly\u003c/a> through restaurants. Because so many people touch the food, it's easy for germs to spread from restaurant staff to customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, the restaurant must have a nondiscriminatory program for internal promotion. \"A majority of actual living-wage restaurants are in fine dining,\" says Myotte, \"but they're dominated by white workers, especially white men.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says many restaurants have qualified applicants of color already working inside their doors, but in lower-paying positions like busboys or dishwashers. Those workers, she says, often don't get considered when management is looking to fill higher-paying, front-of-the-house positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of the servers are hired externally, even though there's qualified staff right there at the restaurant,\" says Myotte. Hiring from within might help decrease the \u003ca href=\"http://rocunited.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/reports_blacks-in-the-industry_brief.pdf\">$4 wage gap\u003c/a> that ROC United found between white and black restaurant employees when they surveyed more than 4,000 workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I opened up the app here in Washington, D.C., to see who's ethically serving my lunch. Shake Shack appears on the list — but the nearest location, the app tells me, is Grand Central Terminal, in New York City. For the record, the closest one is actually about a 10-minute walk away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Location snafu aside, according to the ROC app, Shake Shack meets all criteria for a \"high road\" restaurant except for one: the wages for tipped workers. But this isn't quite accurate — Shake Shack doesn't have tipped workers, so how could it be underpaying them?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a little wonky on the back end to remove that standard,\" Myotte admits, but she says that ROC United is working on this technical issue. \"What we want to make it do is specify that those restaurants don't have tipped workers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, very few of the restaurants listed meet all four of the \"high road\" criteria. But with enough pressure from consumers, ROC United expects restaurants to shape up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's more than just a few restaurants in cities doing this,\" says Myotte. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cem>Copyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Want to know if your favorite restaurant pays its servers a living wage? 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It's one of the restaurants whose labor practices are detailed in the ROC United Diners' Guide app. Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images\" width=\"1000\" height=\"645\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93173\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/shake-shack_enl-a02246c49d40189189853882254820982818c94f-e1423781902687.jpg 1000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/shake-shack_enl-a02246c49d40189189853882254820982818c94f-e1423781902687-400x258.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/shake-shack_enl-a02246c49d40189189853882254820982818c94f-e1423781902687-800x516.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/shake-shack_enl-a02246c49d40189189853882254820982818c94f-e1423781902687-768x495.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/shake-shack_enl-a02246c49d40189189853882254820982818c94f-e1423781902687-320x206.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Customers pick up their orders from a Shake Shack in New York City. It's one of the restaurants whose labor practices are detailed in the ROC United Diners' Guide app. Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Poncie Rutsch, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/02/12/385739008/like-yelp-for-labor-rights-this-app-rates-how-restaurants-treat-workers\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (2/12/15)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restaurant servers are three times more likely to \u003ca href=\"http://rocunited.org/tipped-over-the-edge-gender-inequity-in-the-restaurant-industry/\">receive below-poverty-line\u003c/a> pay than the rest of the U.S. workforce. Yet in a world where shoppers fret over cage-free eggs and organic vegetables, how many are also asking how much their favorite restaurant pays its staff?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An app from \u003ca href=\"http://rocunited.org/\">Restaurant Opportunities Centers United\u003c/a>, an organization of restaurant workers, employers and customers, aims to encourage diners to ask those kinds of questions about the welfare of industry workers. Think of it as a kind of Yelp for labor rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://rocunited.org/dinersguide/\">ROC United Diners' Guide\u003c/a> app lets diners investigate the policies at restaurants in the U.S. When a user enters her location, the app brings up a few local restaurants and shows whether they pay their staffs a living wage and offer a few basic benefits, like paid sick leave. When the user swipes left, the app shows and evaluates the top 100 chain restaurants in the U.S. – so you can see how they stack up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The app actually rolled out a \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/12/10/166671273/want-to-find-a-restaurant-that-treats-workers-well-theres-an-app-for-that\">couple of years ago,\u003c/a> but an updated version offers a new twist: crowdsourcing. ROC officials hope this component will quickly help expand the list, which currently offers detailed information for only about 150 restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your restaurant of choice isn't on the list, the app encourages you to talk to a manager about the establishment's policies. Users can then create an entry for the restaurant and fill out as much as they know about its wages and practices. The information they submit goes to ROC's staff, who verify the details before adding it to the list of restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That feature isn't just about enlisting diners to do ROC's legwork, says Maria Myotte, the group's national communications coordinator. Every time diners reach out directly to a restaurant manager, they are demonstrating that these issues are important, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want it to be less of an easy 'here's what you can use' list and more of an engagement tool,\" Myotte says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Non-chain restaurants listed on the app appear under a category called \"high road.\" They are rated on four different criteria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/app-1_enl-36fe49df3f0961f5ddc0c2ccc794b31574cc290c-e1423781979530.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/app-1_enl-36fe49df3f0961f5ddc0c2ccc794b31574cc290c-e1423781979530.jpg\" alt=\"A screenshot of the app from Restaurant Opportunities Centers United. Photo: Meredith Rizzo/NPR\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93174\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/app-1_enl-36fe49df3f0961f5ddc0c2ccc794b31574cc290c-e1423781979530.jpg 1000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/app-1_enl-36fe49df3f0961f5ddc0c2ccc794b31574cc290c-e1423781979530-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/app-1_enl-36fe49df3f0961f5ddc0c2ccc794b31574cc290c-e1423781979530-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/app-1_enl-36fe49df3f0961f5ddc0c2ccc794b31574cc290c-e1423781979530-768x511.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/02/app-1_enl-36fe49df3f0961f5ddc0c2ccc794b31574cc290c-e1423781979530-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot of the app from Restaurant Opportunities Centers United. Photo: Meredith Rizzo/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The first and second criteria are related to wages: The restaurant must pay its non-tipped workers at least $10 an hour. And tipped staff must earn at least $7 an hour to make the list. That's higher than the federal minimum wage for anyone who earns tips — just $2.13 an hour, a number that hasn't increased since 1991. (As we've reported, some states have \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/02/06/272469496/after-23-years-your-waiter-is-ready-for-a-raise\">higher tip minimum wages\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next, the restaurant must give all employees paid sick days. \"Working while sick is so commonplace,\"\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>says Myotte, because most restaurant workers can't afford to take a day off without pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have heard from our workers that they face termination or [that] colleagues have been fired for not showing up\" when they are sick, says Myotte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paid sick days, Myotte says, should really be a no-brainer. Foodborne \u003ca href=\"http://cspinet.org/reports/outbreakalert2014.pdf\">illness moves quickly\u003c/a> through restaurants. Because so many people touch the food, it's easy for germs to spread from restaurant staff to customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, the restaurant must have a nondiscriminatory program for internal promotion. \"A majority of actual living-wage restaurants are in fine dining,\" says Myotte, \"but they're dominated by white workers, especially white men.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says many restaurants have qualified applicants of color already working inside their doors, but in lower-paying positions like busboys or dishwashers. Those workers, she says, often don't get considered when management is looking to fill higher-paying, front-of-the-house positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of the servers are hired externally, even though there's qualified staff right there at the restaurant,\" says Myotte. Hiring from within might help decrease the \u003ca href=\"http://rocunited.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/reports_blacks-in-the-industry_brief.pdf\">$4 wage gap\u003c/a> that ROC United found between white and black restaurant employees when they surveyed more than 4,000 workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I opened up the app here in Washington, D.C., to see who's ethically serving my lunch. Shake Shack appears on the list — but the nearest location, the app tells me, is Grand Central Terminal, in New York City. For the record, the closest one is actually about a 10-minute walk away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Location snafu aside, according to the ROC app, Shake Shack meets all criteria for a \"high road\" restaurant except for one: the wages for tipped workers. But this isn't quite accurate — Shake Shack doesn't have tipped workers, so how could it be underpaying them?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a little wonky on the back end to remove that standard,\" Myotte admits, but she says that ROC United is working on this technical issue. \"What we want to make it do is specify that those restaurants don't have tipped workers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, very few of the restaurants listed meet all four of the \"high road\" criteria. But with enough pressure from consumers, ROC United expects restaurants to shape up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's more than just a few restaurants in cities doing this,\" says Myotte. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cem>Copyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/93172/like-yelp-for-labor-rights-this-app-rates-how-restaurants-treat-workers","authors":["byline_bayareabites_93172"],"categories":["bayareabites_1962","bayareabites_4084","bayareabites_1146","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_12108","bayareabites_14145","bayareabites_14146","bayareabites_11502","bayareabites_11505","bayareabites_14147"],"featImg":"bayareabites_93174","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_87165":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_87165","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"87165","score":null,"sort":[1409886309000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"across-the-country-fast-food-workers-rally-for-15-an-hour-pay","title":"Across The Country, Fast-Food Workers Rally For $15-An-Hour Pay","publishDate":1409886309,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87166\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/food-workers-protest_slide-02da62fed695edeef0fd767ad59a12aec05c006f-e1409930730854.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/food-workers-protest_slide-02da62fed695edeef0fd767ad59a12aec05c006f-e1409930730854.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters demonstrate outside a McDonald's in Chicago. Hundreds of workers from McDonald's, Taco Bell, Wendy's and other fast-food chains were expected to walk off their jobs Thursday to push the companies to pay their employees at least $15 an hour, according to labor organizers. Photo: M. Spencer Green/AP\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87166\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters demonstrate outside a McDonald's in Chicago. Hundreds of workers from McDonald's, Taco Bell, Wendy's and other fast-food chains were expected to walk off their jobs Thursday to push the companies to pay their employees at least $15 an hour, according to labor organizers. Photo: M. Spencer Green/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>by Allison Aubrey, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/09/04/345825903/across-the-country-fast-food-workers-rally-for-15-an-hour-pay\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (9/4/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast-food workers in cities across the country, from Los Angeles to Chicago to Hartford, Conn., rallied for higher wages during a day of demonstrations Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union organizers, backed by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.seiu.org/\">Service Employees International Union\u003c/a>, are building a campaign for $15 an hour pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the corner of 87th Street and South Wabash in Chicago, an intersection that has a McDonald's on one corner and a Burger King on the other, workers chanted \"$15 an hour\" or sang \"We Shall Not be Moved\" as they blocked traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We took over the whole street,\" said Jessica Davis, 26, a McDonald's employee who lives in the Chicago area. \"It was empowering.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By early afternoon, the police had handcuffed and arrested an estimated 30 demonstrators. Similar scenes played out in other cities: In Kansas City local news \u003ca href=\"http://www.kctv5.com/category/208602/news\">reported\u003c/a> a sit-down rally leading to arrests, \u003ca href=\"http://www.wisn.com/news/protesters-taken-into-custody-at-west-milwaukee-protest/27882286#!bPRQxl\">protesters\u003c/a> in Milwaukee were taken into police custody, and a march of about 100 workers in Hartford, Conn., led to \u003ca href=\"http://wnpr.org/post/fast-food-workers-strike-several-arrested-hartford\">several arrests\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign, which started two years ago when fast-food workers in New York City rallied for higher wages, has grown. In December, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/12/03/248567592/fast-food-workers-cry-poverty-wages-as-mcdonalds-buys-luxury-jet\" target=\"_blank\">demonstrators got the attention of lawmakers\u003c/a> in Washington, sparking talk of raising the federal minimum wage to $10 or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in many cities, a living wage would need to be much higher. For instance in Chicago, where Davis lives, an adult with one child needs to make about $20 an hour to support their family, according to one \u003ca href=\"http://livingwage.mit.edu/places/1703114000\">living wage calculator\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis says she makes about $9 an hour at McDonald's, which is average for the fast food industry. She argues it's not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's extremely hard. I'm forced to use government assistance to take care of my children,\" Davis said. She relies, for instance, on the SNAP program, or food stamps, to buy some of her groceries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Davis is not alone. A recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/10/16/235398536/why-u-s-taxpayers-pay-7-billion-a-year-to-help-fast-food-workers\">study\u003c/a> by economists at the University of California Berkeley, concluded that 52 percent of fast-food workers rely on taxpayer-funded public assistance programs, such as SNAP or Medicaid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those programs and subsidies cost taxpayers about $7 billion a year, so the study led some economists to ask: Why should middle-class taxpayers subsidize corporate profits?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the assumption that flipping burgers is a job for teenagers, the majority of fast food workers are adults, and a third of them are parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a multibillion dollar industry,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.nelp.org/site/about_us/policy_analyst8\">Jack Temple\u003c/a>, an economist at the National Employment Law Project. \"McDonald's' profits were $5.6 billion last year. There's plenty of revenue to afford a living wage.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, McDonald's wrote that the company and its franchisees support paying employees fair wages. \"We believe that any minimum wage increase should be implemented over time so that the impact on owners of small and medium-sized businesses – like the ones who own and operate the majority of our restaurants – is manageable,\" the statement read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sudden jump to $15 an hour, which is about double the current minimum wage, is a bad idea, the industry says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A $15 [per hour] entry-level wage would increase the cost of food probably by about 35 percent to 40 percent,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.restaurant.org/Pressroom/NRA-Speakers-Bureau/Bio-Category/defife\">Scott DeFife \u003c/a>of the National Restaurant Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And economist \u003ca href=\"http://www.aei.org/scholar/michael-r-strain/\">Michael Strain\u003c/a> of the American Enterprise Institute says a jump to $15 an hour likely would lead to more automation and fewer jobs in the sector. For instance, Strain notes that fast-food workers used to fill diners' drinks for them, but that task is now delegated to the customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You think you need a person to say \"welcome to McDonald's, may I take your order?\" Nope, says Strain. In the future, we all may be keying our orders into an iPad or some other technology. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Copyright 2014 \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Union organizers say workers need a liveable wage and that their campaign to win them is gaining momentum, but the industry says higher wages would increase the cost of fast food.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1409930822,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":706},"headData":{"title":"Across The Country, Fast-Food Workers Rally For $15-An-Hour Pay | KQED","description":"Union organizers say workers need a liveable wage and that their campaign to win them is gaining momentum, but the industry says higher wages would increase the cost of fast food.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"87165 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=87165","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/09/04/across-the-country-fast-food-workers-rally-for-15-an-hour-pay/","disqusTitle":"Across The Country, Fast-Food Workers Rally For $15-An-Hour Pay","nprByline":"Allison Aubrey","nprStoryId":"345825903","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=345825903&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/09/04/345825903/across-the-country-fast-food-workers-rally-for-15-an-hour-pay?ft=3&f=345825903","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Thu, 04 Sep 2014 22:42:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Thu, 04 Sep 2014 22:42:57 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Thu, 04 Sep 2014 22:42:57 -0400","path":"/bayareabites/87165/across-the-country-fast-food-workers-rally-for-15-an-hour-pay","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87166\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/food-workers-protest_slide-02da62fed695edeef0fd767ad59a12aec05c006f-e1409930730854.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/food-workers-protest_slide-02da62fed695edeef0fd767ad59a12aec05c006f-e1409930730854.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters demonstrate outside a McDonald's in Chicago. Hundreds of workers from McDonald's, Taco Bell, Wendy's and other fast-food chains were expected to walk off their jobs Thursday to push the companies to pay their employees at least $15 an hour, according to labor organizers. Photo: M. Spencer Green/AP\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87166\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters demonstrate outside a McDonald's in Chicago. Hundreds of workers from McDonald's, Taco Bell, Wendy's and other fast-food chains were expected to walk off their jobs Thursday to push the companies to pay their employees at least $15 an hour, according to labor organizers. Photo: M. Spencer Green/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>by Allison Aubrey, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/09/04/345825903/across-the-country-fast-food-workers-rally-for-15-an-hour-pay\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (9/4/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast-food workers in cities across the country, from Los Angeles to Chicago to Hartford, Conn., rallied for higher wages during a day of demonstrations Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union organizers, backed by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.seiu.org/\">Service Employees International Union\u003c/a>, are building a campaign for $15 an hour pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the corner of 87th Street and South Wabash in Chicago, an intersection that has a McDonald's on one corner and a Burger King on the other, workers chanted \"$15 an hour\" or sang \"We Shall Not be Moved\" as they blocked traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We took over the whole street,\" said Jessica Davis, 26, a McDonald's employee who lives in the Chicago area. \"It was empowering.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By early afternoon, the police had handcuffed and arrested an estimated 30 demonstrators. Similar scenes played out in other cities: In Kansas City local news \u003ca href=\"http://www.kctv5.com/category/208602/news\">reported\u003c/a> a sit-down rally leading to arrests, \u003ca href=\"http://www.wisn.com/news/protesters-taken-into-custody-at-west-milwaukee-protest/27882286#!bPRQxl\">protesters\u003c/a> in Milwaukee were taken into police custody, and a march of about 100 workers in Hartford, Conn., led to \u003ca href=\"http://wnpr.org/post/fast-food-workers-strike-several-arrested-hartford\">several arrests\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign, which started two years ago when fast-food workers in New York City rallied for higher wages, has grown. In December, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/12/03/248567592/fast-food-workers-cry-poverty-wages-as-mcdonalds-buys-luxury-jet\" target=\"_blank\">demonstrators got the attention of lawmakers\u003c/a> in Washington, sparking talk of raising the federal minimum wage to $10 or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in many cities, a living wage would need to be much higher. For instance in Chicago, where Davis lives, an adult with one child needs to make about $20 an hour to support their family, according to one \u003ca href=\"http://livingwage.mit.edu/places/1703114000\">living wage calculator\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis says she makes about $9 an hour at McDonald's, which is average for the fast food industry. She argues it's not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's extremely hard. I'm forced to use government assistance to take care of my children,\" Davis said. She relies, for instance, on the SNAP program, or food stamps, to buy some of her groceries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Davis is not alone. A recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/10/16/235398536/why-u-s-taxpayers-pay-7-billion-a-year-to-help-fast-food-workers\">study\u003c/a> by economists at the University of California Berkeley, concluded that 52 percent of fast-food workers rely on taxpayer-funded public assistance programs, such as SNAP or Medicaid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those programs and subsidies cost taxpayers about $7 billion a year, so the study led some economists to ask: Why should middle-class taxpayers subsidize corporate profits?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the assumption that flipping burgers is a job for teenagers, the majority of fast food workers are adults, and a third of them are parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a multibillion dollar industry,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.nelp.org/site/about_us/policy_analyst8\">Jack Temple\u003c/a>, an economist at the National Employment Law Project. \"McDonald's' profits were $5.6 billion last year. There's plenty of revenue to afford a living wage.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, McDonald's wrote that the company and its franchisees support paying employees fair wages. \"We believe that any minimum wage increase should be implemented over time so that the impact on owners of small and medium-sized businesses – like the ones who own and operate the majority of our restaurants – is manageable,\" the statement read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sudden jump to $15 an hour, which is about double the current minimum wage, is a bad idea, the industry says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A $15 [per hour] entry-level wage would increase the cost of food probably by about 35 percent to 40 percent,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.restaurant.org/Pressroom/NRA-Speakers-Bureau/Bio-Category/defife\">Scott DeFife \u003c/a>of the National Restaurant Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And economist \u003ca href=\"http://www.aei.org/scholar/michael-r-strain/\">Michael Strain\u003c/a> of the American Enterprise Institute says a jump to $15 an hour likely would lead to more automation and fewer jobs in the sector. For instance, Strain notes that fast-food workers used to fill diners' drinks for them, but that task is now delegated to the customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You think you need a person to say \"welcome to McDonald's, may I take your order?\" Nope, says Strain. In the future, we all may be keying our orders into an iPad or some other technology. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Copyright 2014 \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/87165/across-the-country-fast-food-workers-rally-for-15-an-hour-pay","authors":["byline_bayareabites_87165"],"categories":["bayareabites_1962","bayareabites_50","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_181"],"tags":["bayareabites_9103","bayareabites_12104","bayareabites_11502","bayareabites_9101","bayareabites_12284","bayareabites_11427","bayareabites_11429","bayareabites_11838","bayareabites_11318","bayareabites_10921"],"featImg":"bayareabites_87166","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_78042":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_78042","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"78042","score":null,"sort":[1392173064000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"after-23-years-your-waiter-is-ready-for-a-raise","title":"After 23 Years, Your Waiter Is Ready For A Raise","publishDate":1392173064,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78043\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/84610821-copy_wide-38e33acc41af52862244b00d5ca756bee04fdf55.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/84610821-copy_wide-38e33acc41af52862244b00d5ca756bee04fdf55-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"A Denny's waitress delivers breakfast to customers in Emeryville, Calif. The tipped minimum wage has been stuck at $2.13 since 1991. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" class=\"size-large wp-image-78043\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Denny's waitress delivers breakfast to customers in Emeryville, Calif. The tipped minimum wage has been stuck at $2.13 since 1991. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Alan Greenblatt, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/02/06/272469496/after-23-years-your-waiter-is-ready-for-a-raise\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (2/11/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Woody Harrelson's character got hired as a bartender on \u003cem>Cheers,\u003c/em> he was so excited, he insisted on working for no more than the minimum wage. \"I'd work like a slave,\" he said, \"and, of course, I'd wash your car.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most bar and restaurant workers would prefer to bring home a little more cash. They may be in luck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of his plan to raise the minimum wage, President Obama has called for substantially increasing the base wage paid to tipped workers for the first time in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's easy to forget the overwhelming majority of tipped employees are low-income workers,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.demos.org/amy-traub\">Amy Traub\u003c/a>, senior policy analyst at Demos, a liberal research and advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democratic bill endorsed by Obama in his State of the Union address last month\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>would raise the overall minimum wage in stages, from the current $7.25 to $10.10 an hour. Tipped workers — a group that includes waiters, bartenders and busboys — would see their base wages rise to $7.07 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That bill, like all legislation in Congress these days, faces an uncertain future. And its fiercest opposition comes from the National Restaurant Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For starters, the NRA argues, most tipped workers make more than the federal minimum of $2.13 an hour. And it's true: \u003ca href=\"http://www.dol.gov/whd/state/tipped.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Thirty-one states\u003c/a> mandate higher minimum tipped wages than the feds — though those mandates vary widely. In Arkansas, for example, the minimum is $2.63, while in Washington and Oregon it's more than $9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in states that haven't raised the tipped minimum, restaurants are required to make up any shortfall between $2.13 and the regular minimum wage that isn't covered by tips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Tipped employees at restaurants are among the highest-paid employees in the establishment, regularly earning $16 to $22 an hour,\" says Scott DeFife, executive vice president for policy and government affairs at the NRA. \"Nobody is making $2.13 an hour,\" he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But labor advocates take issue with \u003ca href=\"http://www.restaurant.org/Downloads/PDFs/News-Research/20131112_Min_Wage_Issue_Brief\" target=\"_blank\">the NRA's numbers\u003c/a>. In 2012, the median income for food and beverage serving workers was $8.84 per hour, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bls.gov/ooh/food-preparation-and-serving/food-and-beverage-serving-and-related-workers.htm\" target=\"_blank\">according\u003c/a> to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The bulk of tipped workers are barely making ends meet, advocates say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\">\u003cstrong>States Where Servers Have The Highest Base Wages\u003c/strong>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/tipped-minimum-wage-300.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/tipped-minimum-wage-300.png\" alt=\"Tipped minimum wage (per hour)\" width=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-78047\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Notes\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNevada's tipped minimum wage is $7.25 for workers who have employer-provided health insurance. It is $8.25 for those without such a benefit.\u003cbr>\nSource: U.S. Department of Labor\u003cbr>\nCredit: NPR\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"\u003ca href=\"http://s1.epi.org/files/page/-/BriefingPaper297.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Seventy percent are women\u003c/a> who work at places like IHOP and Red Lobster,\" says Saru Jayaraman, co-director of Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, which is pushing for higher wages. \"They use food stamps at double the rate of the rest of the workforce.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In seven states, mostly in the West, restaurants have to pay their workers the prevailing minimum wage, which is a good deal more than $2.13. Similar requirements are pending in the Pennsylvania and Florida legislatures, while voters will weigh in on the issue through ballot measures in a handful of other states and cities this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeFife warns that increasing the base salary of servers and other tipped workers will lead to less hiring, as well as possible tensions in-house. With waiters making more in base salary on top of tips, the nontipped folks in the kitchen might feel shortchanged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We already have a disparity between the front of the house and the back of the house,\" DeFife says. \"For proper restaurant operations, you want to keep as good a balance as you can. You don't want to increase the disparity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if wages do go up, labor proponent Traub argues that employers won't pass on all the costs to their customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Studies have found that when you pay higher wages, employees are more productive and turnover drops,\" she says, \"so you have people who are more experienced and can do a better job.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, the restaurant industry, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2012.htm\" target=\"_blank\">leading employer\u003c/a> of minimum-wage workers, always warns about the perils of raising their salaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now it's possible to \u003ca href=\"http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/workingpapers/157-07.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">gauge some of\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>these effects\u003c/a>, thanks to the range of base pay in different states with different rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.restaurant.org/Restaurant/media/Restaurant/SiteImages/News%20and%20Research/Forecast/2014/SalesGrowthMap2014.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">The NRA's own projections\u003c/a> show that restaurant sales are expected to grow this year at a rate exceeding the national average in at least some of the states with higher base wages, including California, Oregon and Nevada. And overall restaurant \u003ca href=\"http://www.politifact.com/oregon/statements/2013/apr/13/melvin-sickler/has-oregons-higher-minimum-wage-hurt-our-restauran/\" target=\"_blank\">hiring hasn't been driven down\u003c/a> in the Western states that require higher minimum wages (although DeFife says there are complaints from restaurateurs in Oregon and Washington that they've had to cut back).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it stands to reason that restaurants will have to pass on some of these higher costs to customers. Opponents of a wage hike argue this will make diners more cautious about eating out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The winners are probably going to be the people who get the higher wage, and the losers will be customers who have to pay higher prices and workers who don't get hired by that industry,\" says Michael Strain, a labor economist at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, servers receive one of the highest minimum wages in the country — $10.55 an hour. That's a considerable expense for restaurants that also have to cope with sky-high rents, as well as a local universal health care mandate that leads to surcharges generally of 2 percent on most restaurant bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's very, very expensive to run any sort of restaurant in San Francisco,\" says Patricia Unterman, a longtime restaurateur and food critic in the city. \"The cost of doing business here, especially for labor-intensive operations like restaurants, almost doesn't pencil out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she notes, amid the city's thriving, tech-driven economy, people are willing to pay high tabs. San Francisco's restaurant scene is thriving. And, Unterman says, restaurants skimp where they have to, cutting back on niceties like tablecloths and bread and butter, sometimes only serving water when asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumers can be \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2804646/\" target=\"_blank\">sensitive to price changes\u003c/a>, but even in places whose residents aren't as flush as those in San Francisco, a slight rise in their tab isn't likely to deter diners who value the experience or convenience of eating out. A \u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/foodlabor/price_food12.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> by University of California researchers suggests any increase in cost passed on to the diner is likely to be marginal at most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In general, when people eat out — especially at a place where they're waited on by servers — they know they're generally going to pay more for the meal than they would if they had cooked at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even DeFife concedes that an increase in servers' base pay might not do too much harm, depending on how large it is and how fast it would be implemented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't talk about job loss too much in the restaurant industry, per se,\" he says. \"The restaurant industry continues to grow.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The tipped minimum wage has been stuck at $2.13 an hour since 1991, but legislation before Congress could finally change that. The restaurant industry says that will cost jobs and drive away diners. But in states where servers, bartenders and other tipped workers already make more than the federal minimum wage, restaurants haven't been hurting.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1392173064,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":34,"wordCount":1225},"headData":{"title":"After 23 Years, Your Waiter Is Ready For A Raise | KQED","description":"The tipped minimum wage has been stuck at $2.13 an hour since 1991, but legislation before Congress could finally change that. The restaurant industry says that will cost jobs and drive away diners. But in states where servers, bartenders and other tipped workers already make more than the federal minimum wage, restaurants haven't been hurting.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"78042 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=78042","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/02/11/after-23-years-your-waiter-is-ready-for-a-raise/","disqusTitle":"After 23 Years, Your Waiter Is Ready For A Raise","nprByline":"Alan Greenblatt","nprStoryId":"272469496","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=272469496&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/02/06/272469496/after-23-years-your-waiter-is-ready-for-a-raise?ft=3&f=272469496","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 11 Feb 2014 20:32:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 11 Feb 2014 15:22:00 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 11 Feb 2014 20:32:03 -0500","path":"/bayareabites/78042/after-23-years-your-waiter-is-ready-for-a-raise","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78043\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/84610821-copy_wide-38e33acc41af52862244b00d5ca756bee04fdf55.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/84610821-copy_wide-38e33acc41af52862244b00d5ca756bee04fdf55-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"A Denny's waitress delivers breakfast to customers in Emeryville, Calif. The tipped minimum wage has been stuck at $2.13 since 1991. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" class=\"size-large wp-image-78043\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Denny's waitress delivers breakfast to customers in Emeryville, Calif. The tipped minimum wage has been stuck at $2.13 since 1991. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Alan Greenblatt, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/02/06/272469496/after-23-years-your-waiter-is-ready-for-a-raise\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (2/11/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Woody Harrelson's character got hired as a bartender on \u003cem>Cheers,\u003c/em> he was so excited, he insisted on working for no more than the minimum wage. \"I'd work like a slave,\" he said, \"and, of course, I'd wash your car.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most bar and restaurant workers would prefer to bring home a little more cash. They may be in luck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of his plan to raise the minimum wage, President Obama has called for substantially increasing the base wage paid to tipped workers for the first time in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's easy to forget the overwhelming majority of tipped employees are low-income workers,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.demos.org/amy-traub\">Amy Traub\u003c/a>, senior policy analyst at Demos, a liberal research and advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Democratic bill endorsed by Obama in his State of the Union address last month\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>would raise the overall minimum wage in stages, from the current $7.25 to $10.10 an hour. Tipped workers — a group that includes waiters, bartenders and busboys — would see their base wages rise to $7.07 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That bill, like all legislation in Congress these days, faces an uncertain future. And its fiercest opposition comes from the National Restaurant Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For starters, the NRA argues, most tipped workers make more than the federal minimum of $2.13 an hour. And it's true: \u003ca href=\"http://www.dol.gov/whd/state/tipped.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Thirty-one states\u003c/a> mandate higher minimum tipped wages than the feds — though those mandates vary widely. In Arkansas, for example, the minimum is $2.63, while in Washington and Oregon it's more than $9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even in states that haven't raised the tipped minimum, restaurants are required to make up any shortfall between $2.13 and the regular minimum wage that isn't covered by tips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Tipped employees at restaurants are among the highest-paid employees in the establishment, regularly earning $16 to $22 an hour,\" says Scott DeFife, executive vice president for policy and government affairs at the NRA. \"Nobody is making $2.13 an hour,\" he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But labor advocates take issue with \u003ca href=\"http://www.restaurant.org/Downloads/PDFs/News-Research/20131112_Min_Wage_Issue_Brief\" target=\"_blank\">the NRA's numbers\u003c/a>. In 2012, the median income for food and beverage serving workers was $8.84 per hour, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bls.gov/ooh/food-preparation-and-serving/food-and-beverage-serving-and-related-workers.htm\" target=\"_blank\">according\u003c/a> to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The bulk of tipped workers are barely making ends meet, advocates say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cdiv align=\"center\">\u003cstrong>States Where Servers Have The Highest Base Wages\u003c/strong>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/tipped-minimum-wage-300.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/02/tipped-minimum-wage-300.png\" alt=\"Tipped minimum wage (per hour)\" width=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-78047\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Notes\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNevada's tipped minimum wage is $7.25 for workers who have employer-provided health insurance. It is $8.25 for those without such a benefit.\u003cbr>\nSource: U.S. Department of Labor\u003cbr>\nCredit: NPR\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"\u003ca href=\"http://s1.epi.org/files/page/-/BriefingPaper297.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Seventy percent are women\u003c/a> who work at places like IHOP and Red Lobster,\" says Saru Jayaraman, co-director of Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, which is pushing for higher wages. \"They use food stamps at double the rate of the rest of the workforce.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In seven states, mostly in the West, restaurants have to pay their workers the prevailing minimum wage, which is a good deal more than $2.13. Similar requirements are pending in the Pennsylvania and Florida legislatures, while voters will weigh in on the issue through ballot measures in a handful of other states and cities this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeFife warns that increasing the base salary of servers and other tipped workers will lead to less hiring, as well as possible tensions in-house. With waiters making more in base salary on top of tips, the nontipped folks in the kitchen might feel shortchanged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We already have a disparity between the front of the house and the back of the house,\" DeFife says. \"For proper restaurant operations, you want to keep as good a balance as you can. You don't want to increase the disparity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if wages do go up, labor proponent Traub argues that employers won't pass on all the costs to their customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Studies have found that when you pay higher wages, employees are more productive and turnover drops,\" she says, \"so you have people who are more experienced and can do a better job.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, the restaurant industry, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2012.htm\" target=\"_blank\">leading employer\u003c/a> of minimum-wage workers, always warns about the perils of raising their salaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now it's possible to \u003ca href=\"http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/workingpapers/157-07.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">gauge some of\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>these effects\u003c/a>, thanks to the range of base pay in different states with different rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.restaurant.org/Restaurant/media/Restaurant/SiteImages/News%20and%20Research/Forecast/2014/SalesGrowthMap2014.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">The NRA's own projections\u003c/a> show that restaurant sales are expected to grow this year at a rate exceeding the national average in at least some of the states with higher base wages, including California, Oregon and Nevada. And overall restaurant \u003ca href=\"http://www.politifact.com/oregon/statements/2013/apr/13/melvin-sickler/has-oregons-higher-minimum-wage-hurt-our-restauran/\" target=\"_blank\">hiring hasn't been driven down\u003c/a> in the Western states that require higher minimum wages (although DeFife says there are complaints from restaurateurs in Oregon and Washington that they've had to cut back).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it stands to reason that restaurants will have to pass on some of these higher costs to customers. Opponents of a wage hike argue this will make diners more cautious about eating out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The winners are probably going to be the people who get the higher wage, and the losers will be customers who have to pay higher prices and workers who don't get hired by that industry,\" says Michael Strain, a labor economist at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, servers receive one of the highest minimum wages in the country — $10.55 an hour. That's a considerable expense for restaurants that also have to cope with sky-high rents, as well as a local universal health care mandate that leads to surcharges generally of 2 percent on most restaurant bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's very, very expensive to run any sort of restaurant in San Francisco,\" says Patricia Unterman, a longtime restaurateur and food critic in the city. \"The cost of doing business here, especially for labor-intensive operations like restaurants, almost doesn't pencil out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, she notes, amid the city's thriving, tech-driven economy, people are willing to pay high tabs. San Francisco's restaurant scene is thriving. And, Unterman says, restaurants skimp where they have to, cutting back on niceties like tablecloths and bread and butter, sometimes only serving water when asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumers can be \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2804646/\" target=\"_blank\">sensitive to price changes\u003c/a>, but even in places whose residents aren't as flush as those in San Francisco, a slight rise in their tab isn't likely to deter diners who value the experience or convenience of eating out. A \u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/foodlabor/price_food12.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> by University of California researchers suggests any increase in cost passed on to the diner is likely to be marginal at most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In general, when people eat out — especially at a place where they're waited on by servers — they know they're generally going to pay more for the meal than they would if they had cooked at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even DeFife concedes that an increase in servers' base pay might not do too much harm, depending on how large it is and how fast it would be implemented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't talk about job loss too much in the restaurant industry, per se,\" he says. \"The restaurant industry continues to grow.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/78042/after-23-years-your-waiter-is-ready-for-a-raise","authors":["byline_bayareabites_78042"],"categories":["bayareabites_1962","bayareabites_1146","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_895","bayareabites_11502","bayareabites_11505","bayareabites_11506","bayareabites_13062","bayareabites_13061","bayareabites_10921","bayareabites_13064","bayareabites_13063"],"featImg":"bayareabites_78057","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_74829":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_74829","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"74829","score":null,"sort":[1386271935000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"fast-food-workers-cry-poverty-wages-as-mcdonalds-buys-luxury-jet","title":"Fast-Food Workers Cry Poverty Wages As McDonald's Buys Luxury Jet","publishDate":1386271935,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_74830\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/12/wage-rally-5_wide-472bda5cd09019d454ad6ab8eeb8f91f9dab35f9.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/12/wage-rally-5_wide-472bda5cd09019d454ad6ab8eeb8f91f9dab35f9-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"Fast-food workers march toward the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. Similar rallies occurred in about 100 cities across the U.S. Photo: Morgan Walker/NPR\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" class=\"size-large wp-image-74830\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fast-food workers march toward the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. Similar rallies occurred in about 100 cities across the U.S. Photo: Morgan Walker/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Allison Aubrey, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/12/03/248567592/fast-food-workers-cry-poverty-wages-as-mcdonalds-buys-luxury-jet\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (12/5/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you're making eight bucks an hour, which is pretty typical in the fast-food industry, it's tough to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And increasingly, the working poor are asking this question: Why am I living in poverty, even when I'm working full time?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the message that thousands of fast-food workers rallying Thursday in about 100 U.S. cities — from Oakland to Memphis to Washington, D.C. — want heard. A \u003ca href=\"http://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/11001\">living wage\u003c/a> in big cities is closer to $14 an hour, and it jumps to about $20 an hour for an adult supporting a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protests are part of a growing campaign backed by a coalition of advocacy groups, religious organizations and union organizers aimed at raising fast-food wages to $15 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At at time when the fastest-growing jobs in the U.S. economy are also the lowest-paid, the issue of income inequality is on the lips of leaders worldwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_74831\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/12/wage-rally-6-a034999f8db4aa830d1073d5c6915b234f6150b4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/12/wage-rally-6-a034999f8db4aa830d1073d5c6915b234f6150b4-290x217.jpg\" alt=\"Amal Mimish, an organizer with Good Jobs Nation, registers protesters at the fast-food-workers' rally in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. Photo: Morgan Walker/NPR\" width=\"290\" height=\"217\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-74831\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amal Mimish, an organizer with Good Jobs Nation, registers protesters at the fast-food-workers' rally in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. Photo: Morgan Walker/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/pope-francis-denounces-trickle-down-economic-theories-in-critique-of-inequality/2013/11/26/e17ffe4e-56b6-11e3-8304-caf30787c0a9_story.html\">remarks by Pope Francis\u003c/a> a few weeks back to President Obama's \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/12/04/248803175/income-inequality-challenge-of-our-time-obama-says\">speech\u003c/a> Wednesday, it's clear that there's growing unease about the divide between the haves and the have-nots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the image problem for the fast-food industry is exemplified by \u003ca href=\"http://action.ourfuture.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=249&utm_source=self&utm_Medium=email&utm_Campaign=blst2\">this online petition\u003c/a> urging McDonald's chief executive officer, Donald Thompson, to cancel his order for another corporate jet until he pays all his employees a decent wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the petition, McDonald's \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-and-starbucks-buy-jets-2013-10\">just bought\u003c/a> a $35 million luxury Bombardier jet for its corporate executives. Yet many of the company's employees make so little that they rely on public assistance to get by.\u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-and-starbucks-buy-jets-2013-10\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not right to impoverish your employees while sailing above them at a rate of $2,500 an hour,\" reads the petition started by the \u003ca href=\"http://ourfuture.org/\">Campaign For America's Future\u003c/a>. \"It's immoral to do it with a taxpayer subsidy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/10/16/why-u-s-taxpayers-pay-7-billion-a-year-to-help-fast-food-workers/\">study\u003c/a>, economists at the University of California, Berkeley, found that 52 percent of fast-food workers rely on taxpayer-funded public assistance programs, such as food stamps or Medicaid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Taxpayers are subsidizing the low-wage model of these employers, who are making record profits in some cases,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://new.sipa.columbia.edu/faculty/dorian-warren\">Dorian Warren\u003c/a>, an associate professor at Columbia University who studies income inequality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McDonald's didn't comment on the new round of protests Thursday. But back in October, a company spokeswoman \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/10/11/232077122/mcdonalds-president-was-caught-off-guard-by-low-wage-single-mom\">told\u003c/a> The Salt that McDonald's history is full of examples of individuals who worked their first job with the company and then went on to have successful careers — both within and outside of McDonald's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the push from workers for higher hourly wages, McDonald's \"does not determine wages set by our more than 3,000 U.S. franchises,\" a spokeswoman for the company says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the restaurants run by the company — fewer than 10 percent of the roughly 14,000 McDonald's outlets in the U.S. — the spokeswoman explains, \"we pay salaries that begin at minimum wage, but range up from that figure, depending on the job and employee's experience level.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And according to an analysis by the financial information company \u003ca href=\"https://www.sageworks.com/\">Sageworks\u003c/a>, many franchise operators are seeing significant increases in sales revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past four years, privately held fast-food restaurants have seen profit margins nearly double, Sageworks found, while the restaurants' labor costs have remained flat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what will it take to push up wages? Depends on whom you ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increasingly, politicians are under pressure to raise the federal minimum wage. The president made his case Thursday. And already, a patchwork of state and municipal pay hikes have been passed. For instance, New Jersey passed a ballot initiative to \u003ca href=\"http://www.raisetheminimumwage.com/media-center/entry/voters-approve-minimum-wage-increases-in-new-jersey-and-seatac-wa/\">raise its minimum wage\u003c/a> by $1 to $8.25 an hour. And many workers in the city of SeaTac, Wash. — home to the Seattle airport — will get a raise to $15 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The federal minimum wage has lagged behind the rising cost of living for the past four decades,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.nelp.org/site/about_us/policy_analyst8\">Jack Temple\u003c/a> of the National Employment Law Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.raisetheminimumwage.com/\">Raise The Minimum Wage\u003c/a>, a project of the National Employment Law Project, the minimum wage would be $10.74 if it had kept up with inflation over the past 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Workers' backs are against the wall,\" Temple says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everyone agrees that raising the federal minimum wage will fix the problem. \"I would oppose raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.aei.org/scholar/michael-r-strain/\">Michael Strain\u003c/a> of the American Enterprise Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a hike in wages would lead to higher prices at the fast-food counter for all of us, Strain says, and employers would hold back on hiring. In addition, fast-food chains might replace people with new automated technology, which could be cheaper over time, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strain favors responses that wouldn't put the onus on business owners, such as an expansion of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/EITC-Home-Page--It%E2%80%99s-easier-than-ever-to-find-out-if-you-qualify-for-EITC\">earned income tax credit\u003c/a> or other subsidies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otherwise, free market economists say, low-skill workers run the risk of being priced out of the job market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's true that the fast-food industry has given lots of young workers a start in the job market. In fact, the current CEO of McDonald's started behind the counter of a Michigan McDonald's decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at a time when \u003ca href=\"http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/cepr-blog/slow-progress-for-fast-food-workers\">70 percent\u003c/a> of fast-food workers are in their 20s or older and one-quarter are raising children, the demands for higher wages are growing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Thousands of restaurant workers protested Thursday in cities around the country, calling for an increase in wages to $15 an hour. Many fast-food workers make so little that they rely on public assistance to get by, even as profits at many franchises have nearly doubled in recent years. 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Similar rallies occurred in about 100 cities across the U.S. Photo: Morgan Walker/NPR\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" class=\"size-large wp-image-74830\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fast-food workers march toward the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. Similar rallies occurred in about 100 cities across the U.S. Photo: Morgan Walker/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Allison Aubrey, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/12/03/248567592/fast-food-workers-cry-poverty-wages-as-mcdonalds-buys-luxury-jet\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (12/5/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When you're making eight bucks an hour, which is pretty typical in the fast-food industry, it's tough to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And increasingly, the working poor are asking this question: Why am I living in poverty, even when I'm working full time?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the message that thousands of fast-food workers rallying Thursday in about 100 U.S. cities — from Oakland to Memphis to Washington, D.C. — want heard. A \u003ca href=\"http://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/11001\">living wage\u003c/a> in big cities is closer to $14 an hour, and it jumps to about $20 an hour for an adult supporting a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protests are part of a growing campaign backed by a coalition of advocacy groups, religious organizations and union organizers aimed at raising fast-food wages to $15 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At at time when the fastest-growing jobs in the U.S. economy are also the lowest-paid, the issue of income inequality is on the lips of leaders worldwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_74831\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/12/wage-rally-6-a034999f8db4aa830d1073d5c6915b234f6150b4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/12/wage-rally-6-a034999f8db4aa830d1073d5c6915b234f6150b4-290x217.jpg\" alt=\"Amal Mimish, an organizer with Good Jobs Nation, registers protesters at the fast-food-workers' rally in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. 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Photo: Morgan Walker/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/pope-francis-denounces-trickle-down-economic-theories-in-critique-of-inequality/2013/11/26/e17ffe4e-56b6-11e3-8304-caf30787c0a9_story.html\">remarks by Pope Francis\u003c/a> a few weeks back to President Obama's \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/12/04/248803175/income-inequality-challenge-of-our-time-obama-says\">speech\u003c/a> Wednesday, it's clear that there's growing unease about the divide between the haves and the have-nots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the image problem for the fast-food industry is exemplified by \u003ca href=\"http://action.ourfuture.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=249&utm_source=self&utm_Medium=email&utm_Campaign=blst2\">this online petition\u003c/a> urging McDonald's chief executive officer, Donald Thompson, to cancel his order for another corporate jet until he pays all his employees a decent wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the petition, McDonald's \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-and-starbucks-buy-jets-2013-10\">just bought\u003c/a> a $35 million luxury Bombardier jet for its corporate executives. Yet many of the company's employees make so little that they rely on public assistance to get by.\u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-and-starbucks-buy-jets-2013-10\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not right to impoverish your employees while sailing above them at a rate of $2,500 an hour,\" reads the petition started by the \u003ca href=\"http://ourfuture.org/\">Campaign For America's Future\u003c/a>. \"It's immoral to do it with a taxpayer subsidy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/10/16/why-u-s-taxpayers-pay-7-billion-a-year-to-help-fast-food-workers/\">study\u003c/a>, economists at the University of California, Berkeley, found that 52 percent of fast-food workers rely on taxpayer-funded public assistance programs, such as food stamps or Medicaid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Taxpayers are subsidizing the low-wage model of these employers, who are making record profits in some cases,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://new.sipa.columbia.edu/faculty/dorian-warren\">Dorian Warren\u003c/a>, an associate professor at Columbia University who studies income inequality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McDonald's didn't comment on the new round of protests Thursday. But back in October, a company spokeswoman \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/10/11/232077122/mcdonalds-president-was-caught-off-guard-by-low-wage-single-mom\">told\u003c/a> The Salt that McDonald's history is full of examples of individuals who worked their first job with the company and then went on to have successful careers — both within and outside of McDonald's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the push from workers for higher hourly wages, McDonald's \"does not determine wages set by our more than 3,000 U.S. franchises,\" a spokeswoman for the company says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the restaurants run by the company — fewer than 10 percent of the roughly 14,000 McDonald's outlets in the U.S. — the spokeswoman explains, \"we pay salaries that begin at minimum wage, but range up from that figure, depending on the job and employee's experience level.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And according to an analysis by the financial information company \u003ca href=\"https://www.sageworks.com/\">Sageworks\u003c/a>, many franchise operators are seeing significant increases in sales revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past four years, privately held fast-food restaurants have seen profit margins nearly double, Sageworks found, while the restaurants' labor costs have remained flat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what will it take to push up wages? Depends on whom you ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increasingly, politicians are under pressure to raise the federal minimum wage. The president made his case Thursday. And already, a patchwork of state and municipal pay hikes have been passed. For instance, New Jersey passed a ballot initiative to \u003ca href=\"http://www.raisetheminimumwage.com/media-center/entry/voters-approve-minimum-wage-increases-in-new-jersey-and-seatac-wa/\">raise its minimum wage\u003c/a> by $1 to $8.25 an hour. And many workers in the city of SeaTac, Wash. — home to the Seattle airport — will get a raise to $15 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The federal minimum wage has lagged behind the rising cost of living for the past four decades,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.nelp.org/site/about_us/policy_analyst8\">Jack Temple\u003c/a> of the National Employment Law Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"http://www.raisetheminimumwage.com/\">Raise The Minimum Wage\u003c/a>, a project of the National Employment Law Project, the minimum wage would be $10.74 if it had kept up with inflation over the past 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Workers' backs are against the wall,\" Temple says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everyone agrees that raising the federal minimum wage will fix the problem. \"I would oppose raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.aei.org/scholar/michael-r-strain/\">Michael Strain\u003c/a> of the American Enterprise Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a hike in wages would lead to higher prices at the fast-food counter for all of us, Strain says, and employers would hold back on hiring. In addition, fast-food chains might replace people with new automated technology, which could be cheaper over time, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strain favors responses that wouldn't put the onus on business owners, such as an expansion of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/EITC-Home-Page--It%E2%80%99s-easier-than-ever-to-find-out-if-you-qualify-for-EITC\">earned income tax credit\u003c/a> or other subsidies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otherwise, free market economists say, low-skill workers run the risk of being priced out of the job market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's true that the fast-food industry has given lots of young workers a start in the job market. In fact, the current CEO of McDonald's started behind the counter of a Michigan McDonald's decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at a time when \u003ca href=\"http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/cepr-blog/slow-progress-for-fast-food-workers\">70 percent\u003c/a> of fast-food workers are in their 20s or older and one-quarter are raising children, the demands for higher wages are growing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/74829/fast-food-workers-cry-poverty-wages-as-mcdonalds-buys-luxury-jet","authors":["byline_bayareabites_74829"],"categories":["bayareabites_1962","bayareabites_50","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_181"],"tags":["bayareabites_12104","bayareabites_11502","bayareabites_9101","bayareabites_11505","bayareabites_12284","bayareabites_10921"],"featImg":"bayareabites_74838","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_72311":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_72311","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"72311","score":null,"sort":[1381956782000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"why-u-s-taxpayers-pay-7-billion-a-year-to-help-fast-food-workers","title":"Why U.S. Taxpayers Pay $7 Billion A Year To Help Fast-Food Workers","publishDate":1381956782,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_72316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 624px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/10/mcdonalds-workers-protest.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/10/mcdonalds-workers-protest.jpg\" alt=\"New York City Council speaker and then-mayoral candidate Christine Quinn speaks at a fast-food workers' protest outside a McDonald's in New York in August. A nationwide movement is calling for raising the minimum hourly wage for fast-food workers to $15. Photo: Richard Drew/AP\" width=\"624\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72316\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New York City Council speaker and then-mayoral candidate Christine Quinn speaks at a fast-food workers' protest outside a McDonald's in New York in August. A nationwide movement is calling for raising the minimum hourly wage for fast-food workers to $15. Photo: Richard Drew/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Allison Aubrey, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/10/16/235398536/why-u-s-taxpayers-pay-7-billion-a-year-to-help-fast-food-workers\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (10/16/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you hit the drive-through, chances are that the cashier who rings you up or the cook who prepared your food relies on public assistance to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new analysis finds that 52 percent of fast-food workers are enrolled in, or have their families enrolled in, one or more public assistance programs such as SNAP (food stamps) Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's right: With a median wage of $8.69 per hour for front-line fast-food jobs — cooks, cashiers and crew — workers are taking home a paycheck, but it's not enough to cover the basics, according to the authors of \"\u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/publiccosts/fastfoodpovertywages.shtml\">Fast Food, Poverty Wages\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The taxpayer costs we discovered were staggering,\" says co-author Ken Jacobs of the \u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/publiccosts/fastfoodpovertywages.shtml\">Center for Labor Research and Education\u003c/a> at the University of California, Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The combination of low wages, meager benefits, and often part-time hours means that many of the families of fast-food workers have to rely on taxpayer-funded safety net programs to make ends meet,\" Jacobs told me by phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report finds that the fast-food industry's low wages, combined with part-time hours and lack of health care benefits, creates demand for public assistance including $3.9 billion per year in Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) benefits. Add on another billion for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamp assistance. Earned Income Tax Credit payments (a subsidy to low-wage workers) amount to about $1.95 billion per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contrary to the assumption that the typical fast-food worker is a teenager living with his or her parents, the report finds that the vast majority of front-line fast-food workers are adults who are supporting themselves — \"and 68 percent are the main wage earners in their families,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.urban.uiuc.edu/faculty/doussard/\">Marc Doussard\u003c/a> of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a co-author on the paper, says in a \u003ca href=\"http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/10/15/low-wage-fast-food-jobs-leave-hefty-tax-bill-report-says/\">press release\u003c/a> about the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says about a quarter of those working these jobs in fast-food restaurants are parents supporting children at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report was funded by \u003ca href=\"http://fastfoodforward.org/\">Fast Food Forward\u003c/a>, a group campaigning for higher wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis comes as a campaign for $15 per hour wages has garnered significant attention around the country. Over the past year, workers in cities nationwide have temporarily walked off their jobs to protest low wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, some more conservative-leaning economists say raising wages would do nothing to curtail the taxpayer spending on public assistance programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour would solve that problem,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.aei.org/scholar/michael-r-strain/\">Michael Strain\u003c/a>, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, told me during a phone interview. He describes himself as a center-right economist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strain says raising wages to that level would have unintended consequences: Namely, fast-food companies would slow down their hiring. And this would lead to more workers looking for jobs — and potentially needing to rely on more public assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strain says the $7 billion taxpayer bill is not necessarily problematic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the system seems to be working the way it is — not that it's working perfectly,\" he says, adding, \"In general, the government is making sure these people's basic needs are met, which is an appropriate role of government.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Strain argues, fast-food businesses are paying their workers wages that they judge to be equal to the value these workers are adding to the production process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we were to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, I think most economists, including me, would argue that that would result in a lot fewer workers,\" since fast-food companies would slow-down on hiring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ken Jacobs disagrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think there's very good evidence on what's happened when wages have been improved for low-wage and fast-food workers,\" Jacobs says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He points to a fast-food company, \u003ca href=\"http://www.in-n-out.com/\">In-N-Out Burger\u003c/a>, as an example of an employer that pays higher-than-average wages, yet is still profitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, Jacobs says, some municipalities are raising minimum wages, such as San Jose, Calif., where the minimum wage is set to increase \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/?nid=3491\">to $10.15 per hour\u003c/a> in January of 2014. And there are proposals in states including \u003ca href=\"http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-09-03/local/41712055_1_minimum-dereck-e-gansler\">Maryland\u003c/a> to phase in hourly minimum wage hikes as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobs argues that it's possible that employers may see a small decline in profits, but when wages are raised, \"you do find a significant decline in turnover [of workers], which is cost-saving for employers.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Fifty-two percent of low-wage fast-food workers rely on public assistance programs like food stamps and Medicaid just to make ends meet, a fresh analysis finds. Many are adults supporting families. But some conservative economists say raising the minimum wage to $15 – as protesters are demanding – wouldn't help matters.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1381956782,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":835},"headData":{"title":"Why U.S. Taxpayers Pay $7 Billion A Year To Help Fast-Food Workers | KQED","description":"Fifty-two percent of low-wage fast-food workers rely on public assistance programs like food stamps and Medicaid just to make ends meet, a fresh analysis finds. Many are adults supporting families. But some conservative economists say raising the minimum wage to $15 – as protesters are demanding – wouldn't help matters.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"72311 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=72311","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/10/16/why-u-s-taxpayers-pay-7-billion-a-year-to-help-fast-food-workers/","disqusTitle":"Why U.S. Taxpayers Pay $7 Billion A Year To Help Fast-Food Workers","nprByline":"Allison Aubrey","nprStoryId":"235398536","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=235398536&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/10/16/235398536/why-u-s-taxpayers-pay-7-billion-a-year-to-help-fast-food-workers?ft=3&f=235398536","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:34:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Wed, 16 Oct 2013 14:31:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:34:52 -0400","path":"/bayareabites/72311/why-u-s-taxpayers-pay-7-billion-a-year-to-help-fast-food-workers","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_72316\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 624px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/10/mcdonalds-workers-protest.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/10/mcdonalds-workers-protest.jpg\" alt=\"New York City Council speaker and then-mayoral candidate Christine Quinn speaks at a fast-food workers' protest outside a McDonald's in New York in August. A nationwide movement is calling for raising the minimum hourly wage for fast-food workers to $15. Photo: Richard Drew/AP\" width=\"624\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72316\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New York City Council speaker and then-mayoral candidate Christine Quinn speaks at a fast-food workers' protest outside a McDonald's in New York in August. A nationwide movement is calling for raising the minimum hourly wage for fast-food workers to $15. Photo: Richard Drew/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Allison Aubrey, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/10/16/235398536/why-u-s-taxpayers-pay-7-billion-a-year-to-help-fast-food-workers\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (10/16/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you hit the drive-through, chances are that the cashier who rings you up or the cook who prepared your food relies on public assistance to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new analysis finds that 52 percent of fast-food workers are enrolled in, or have their families enrolled in, one or more public assistance programs such as SNAP (food stamps) Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's right: With a median wage of $8.69 per hour for front-line fast-food jobs — cooks, cashiers and crew — workers are taking home a paycheck, but it's not enough to cover the basics, according to the authors of \"\u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/publiccosts/fastfoodpovertywages.shtml\">Fast Food, Poverty Wages\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The taxpayer costs we discovered were staggering,\" says co-author Ken Jacobs of the \u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/publiccosts/fastfoodpovertywages.shtml\">Center for Labor Research and Education\u003c/a> at the University of California, Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The combination of low wages, meager benefits, and often part-time hours means that many of the families of fast-food workers have to rely on taxpayer-funded safety net programs to make ends meet,\" Jacobs told me by phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report finds that the fast-food industry's low wages, combined with part-time hours and lack of health care benefits, creates demand for public assistance including $3.9 billion per year in Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) benefits. Add on another billion for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamp assistance. Earned Income Tax Credit payments (a subsidy to low-wage workers) amount to about $1.95 billion per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contrary to the assumption that the typical fast-food worker is a teenager living with his or her parents, the report finds that the vast majority of front-line fast-food workers are adults who are supporting themselves — \"and 68 percent are the main wage earners in their families,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.urban.uiuc.edu/faculty/doussard/\">Marc Doussard\u003c/a> of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a co-author on the paper, says in a \u003ca href=\"http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/10/15/low-wage-fast-food-jobs-leave-hefty-tax-bill-report-says/\">press release\u003c/a> about the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says about a quarter of those working these jobs in fast-food restaurants are parents supporting children at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report was funded by \u003ca href=\"http://fastfoodforward.org/\">Fast Food Forward\u003c/a>, a group campaigning for higher wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis comes as a campaign for $15 per hour wages has garnered significant attention around the country. Over the past year, workers in cities nationwide have temporarily walked off their jobs to protest low wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, some more conservative-leaning economists say raising wages would do nothing to curtail the taxpayer spending on public assistance programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour would solve that problem,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.aei.org/scholar/michael-r-strain/\">Michael Strain\u003c/a>, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, told me during a phone interview. He describes himself as a center-right economist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strain says raising wages to that level would have unintended consequences: Namely, fast-food companies would slow down their hiring. And this would lead to more workers looking for jobs — and potentially needing to rely on more public assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strain says the $7 billion taxpayer bill is not necessarily problematic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the system seems to be working the way it is — not that it's working perfectly,\" he says, adding, \"In general, the government is making sure these people's basic needs are met, which is an appropriate role of government.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Strain argues, fast-food businesses are paying their workers wages that they judge to be equal to the value these workers are adding to the production process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If we were to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, I think most economists, including me, would argue that that would result in a lot fewer workers,\" since fast-food companies would slow-down on hiring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ken Jacobs disagrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think there's very good evidence on what's happened when wages have been improved for low-wage and fast-food workers,\" Jacobs says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He points to a fast-food company, \u003ca href=\"http://www.in-n-out.com/\">In-N-Out Burger\u003c/a>, as an example of an employer that pays higher-than-average wages, yet is still profitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, Jacobs says, some municipalities are raising minimum wages, such as San Jose, Calif., where the minimum wage is set to increase \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/?nid=3491\">to $10.15 per hour\u003c/a> in January of 2014. And there are proposals in states including \u003ca href=\"http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-09-03/local/41712055_1_minimum-dereck-e-gansler\">Maryland\u003c/a> to phase in hourly minimum wage hikes as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobs argues that it's possible that employers may see a small decline in profits, but when wages are raised, \"you do find a significant decline in turnover [of workers], which is cost-saving for employers.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/72311/why-u-s-taxpayers-pay-7-billion-a-year-to-help-fast-food-workers","authors":["byline_bayareabites_72311"],"categories":["bayareabites_1962","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_181"],"tags":["bayareabites_11504","bayareabites_12104","bayareabites_10011","bayareabites_11502","bayareabites_11505","bayareabites_11838","bayareabites_10921"],"featImg":"bayareabites_72316","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_72095":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_72095","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"72095","score":null,"sort":[1381532459000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"mcdonalds-president-was-caught-off-guard-by-low-wage-single-mom","title":"McDonald's President Was Caught Off Guard By Low-Wage, Single Mom","publishDate":1381532459,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>[youtube //www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpePh4Cal58]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by Allison Aubrey, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/10/11/232077122/mcdonalds-president-was-caught-off-guard-by-low-wage-single-mom\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (10/11/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpePh4Cal58\">video\u003c/a> of a McDonald's worker confronting the president of the fast-food behemoth has gone viral this week, with the help of a fast-food workers' campaign aimed at raising hourly wages to $15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the short clip, the worker, Nancy Salgado, a Chicago single mother of two, shouts out to Jeff Stratton, president of McDonald's USA, who was standing at a podium in a ballroom giving a talk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's really hard for me to feed my two kids and struggle day to day. Do you think this is fair, that I have to be making $8.25 when I have worked for McDonald's for 10 years?\" Salgado shouts out from the back of the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stratton's response? \"I've been there 40 years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/10/mcdonalds-video1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/10/mcdonalds-video1.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff Stratton, president of McDonald’s USA response.\" width=\"633\" height=\"343\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72103\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Salgado calls out that she needs a raise, she is escorted out of the room, and in the video you can hear a voice say, \"You're going to be arrested.\" Later, police reportedly issued her a ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In bringing attention to this video, the \u003ca href=\"http://fightfor15.org/en/\">Workers Organizing Committee of Chicago\u003c/a>, which is helping to build the campaign for $15-per-hour wages, has circulated a press release highlighting the disparity between McDonald's corporate profits — which totaled \u003ca href=\"http://tinyurl.com/le6743p\">$5.5 billion\u003c/a> last year — and workers' wages. According to WOCC, the median wage of cooks, cashiers and crew is $8.94 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to an \u003ca href=\"http://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/17031\">MIT living wage calculator\u003c/a>, an adult with one child needs to make $20.86 an hour working full time in the Chicago area to afford the basics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's been suggestion on social media that Stratton's response was curt and insensitive. So we reached out to McDonald's to ask him if he would have responded differently to Salgado had the circumstances been different — say, if she had not barged into a private event and interrupted him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes, Jeff Stratton was caught off-guard at this church-based event,\" a McDonald's spokeswoman told us by email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And why did Stratton bring up his 40 years at McDonald's? Well, it turns out \"his 40-year anniversary was that very week, so it was top of mind for him,\" the spokeswoman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company points out that Stratton first joined McDonald's back in the '70s as a restaurant crew member and has worked his way up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McDonald's says its history is full of examples of individuals who worked their first job with the company and went on to have successful careers both within and outside of McDonald's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the push from workers for higher hourly wages, McDonald's says it \"does not determine wages set by our more than 3,000 U.S. franchisees,\" according to the company spokeswoman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the restaurants run by McDonald's USA — less than 10 percent of the roughly 14,000 outlets in this country — the spokeswoman explains, \"we pay salaries that begin at minimum wage but range up from that figure, depending on the job and employee's experience level.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"McDonald's USA President Jeff Stratton has been criticized on social media for his videotaped response to an employee who confronted him and complained that she doesn't make enough to feed her kids. But a spokeswoman for the company says McDonald's has a long history of promoting from within.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1381532459,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":535},"headData":{"title":"McDonald's President Was Caught Off Guard By Low-Wage, Single Mom | KQED","description":"McDonald's USA President Jeff Stratton has been criticized on social media for his videotaped response to an employee who confronted him and complained that she doesn't make enough to feed her kids. But a spokeswoman for the company says McDonald's has a long history of promoting from within.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"72095 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=72095","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/10/11/mcdonalds-president-was-caught-off-guard-by-low-wage-single-mom/","disqusTitle":"McDonald's President Was Caught Off Guard By Low-Wage, Single Mom","nprByline":"Allison Aubrey","nprStoryId":"232077122","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=232077122&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/10/11/232077122/mcdonalds-president-was-caught-off-guard-by-low-wage-single-mom?ft=3&f=232077122","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Fri, 11 Oct 2013 17:53:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Fri, 11 Oct 2013 15:39:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Fri, 11 Oct 2013 17:53:01 -0400","path":"/bayareabites/72095/mcdonalds-president-was-caught-off-guard-by-low-wage-single-mom","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/TpePh4Cal58'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/TpePh4Cal58'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by Allison Aubrey, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/10/11/232077122/mcdonalds-president-was-caught-off-guard-by-low-wage-single-mom\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (10/11/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpePh4Cal58\">video\u003c/a> of a McDonald's worker confronting the president of the fast-food behemoth has gone viral this week, with the help of a fast-food workers' campaign aimed at raising hourly wages to $15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the short clip, the worker, Nancy Salgado, a Chicago single mother of two, shouts out to Jeff Stratton, president of McDonald's USA, who was standing at a podium in a ballroom giving a talk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's really hard for me to feed my two kids and struggle day to day. Do you think this is fair, that I have to be making $8.25 when I have worked for McDonald's for 10 years?\" Salgado shouts out from the back of the room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stratton's response? \"I've been there 40 years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/10/mcdonalds-video1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/10/mcdonalds-video1.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff Stratton, president of McDonald’s USA response.\" width=\"633\" height=\"343\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72103\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Salgado calls out that she needs a raise, she is escorted out of the room, and in the video you can hear a voice say, \"You're going to be arrested.\" Later, police reportedly issued her a ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In bringing attention to this video, the \u003ca href=\"http://fightfor15.org/en/\">Workers Organizing Committee of Chicago\u003c/a>, which is helping to build the campaign for $15-per-hour wages, has circulated a press release highlighting the disparity between McDonald's corporate profits — which totaled \u003ca href=\"http://tinyurl.com/le6743p\">$5.5 billion\u003c/a> last year — and workers' wages. According to WOCC, the median wage of cooks, cashiers and crew is $8.94 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to an \u003ca href=\"http://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/17031\">MIT living wage calculator\u003c/a>, an adult with one child needs to make $20.86 an hour working full time in the Chicago area to afford the basics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's been suggestion on social media that Stratton's response was curt and insensitive. So we reached out to McDonald's to ask him if he would have responded differently to Salgado had the circumstances been different — say, if she had not barged into a private event and interrupted him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes, Jeff Stratton was caught off-guard at this church-based event,\" a McDonald's spokeswoman told us by email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And why did Stratton bring up his 40 years at McDonald's? Well, it turns out \"his 40-year anniversary was that very week, so it was top of mind for him,\" the spokeswoman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company points out that Stratton first joined McDonald's back in the '70s as a restaurant crew member and has worked his way up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McDonald's says its history is full of examples of individuals who worked their first job with the company and went on to have successful careers both within and outside of McDonald's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the push from workers for higher hourly wages, McDonald's says it \"does not determine wages set by our more than 3,000 U.S. franchisees,\" according to the company spokeswoman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the restaurants run by McDonald's USA — less than 10 percent of the roughly 14,000 outlets in this country — the spokeswoman explains, \"we pay salaries that begin at minimum wage but range up from that figure, depending on the job and employee's experience level.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/72095/mcdonalds-president-was-caught-off-guard-by-low-wage-single-mom","authors":["byline_bayareabites_72095"],"categories":["bayareabites_1962","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_1807","bayareabites_181"],"tags":["bayareabites_12104","bayareabites_11502","bayareabites_9101","bayareabites_11505","bayareabites_11427","bayareabites_10921"],"label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_66817":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_66817","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"66817","score":null,"sort":[1375201788000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"fast-food-strikers-demand-a-living-wage","title":"Fast-Food Strikers Demand A 'Living Wage'","publishDate":1375201788,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_66825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1120px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/07/fast-food-strike.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/07/fast-food-strike.jpg\" alt=\"People gathered outside a Wendy's restaurant in New York City on Monday as part of a one-day strike calling for higher wages for fast-food workers. Photo: Justin Lane/EPA/Landov\" width=\"1120\" height=\"628\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66825\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People gathered outside a Wendy's restaurant in New York City on Monday as part of a one-day strike calling for higher wages for fast-food workers. Photo: Justin Lane/EPA/Landov\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/07/27/205240639/tucson-food-bank-helps-the-needy-grow-their-own-food\">Morning Edition\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2013/07/20130730_me_16.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/159989569/joel-rose\">Joel Rose\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/07/30/206714894/fast-food-strikers-demand-a-living-wage\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (7/30/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a Wendy's restaurant in Lower Manhattan on Monday, protesters urged the lunchtime crowd to skip the Value Menu for one day. They blocked the sidewalk and half of the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanell Young held a red strike sign over her head. Young earns the minimum wage, $7.25 an hour, at another Wendy's in New York. She says that's not enough to support her and her 5-year-old son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's horrible,\" says Young. \"Everything goes up. It's unfair. You can't find an apartment. You can't pay for children's school uniforms. Everything is unfair. We can't live off this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast-food workers are walking picket lines across the country this week. They're staging a series of one-day strikes in seven cities, including New York, Chicago and St. Louis. The campaign is aimed at pressuring McDonald's, Wendy's and other fast-food chains to pay a so-called living wage of $15 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The walkout at the Wendy's in Lower Manhattan did not force the restaurant to close, although it did seem to persuade a few potential diners to go somewhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wendy's would not give an interview for this story. Nor would any of the other fast-food chains targeted in the strike. But the National Restaurant Association did. Spokesman Scott DeFife says profit margins in the restaurant business are typically tight — and labor costs are among the industry's biggest expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There would be a severe impact on the ability to create jobs if the minimum wage was doubling to $15,\" says DeFife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restaurant industry's allies also rallied to its defense. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.epionline.org\">Employment Policies Institute\u003c/a>, a pro-business group in Washington, D.C., bought a \u003ca href=\"http://www.minimumwage.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/EPI_IpadAd_USATodayColor.jpg\">full-page ad\u003c/a> in Monday's \u003cem>USA Today\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Saltsman, research director at the EPI, says a higher minimum wage could push fast-food companies to invest more heavily in automation instead of hourly workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are a number of chains here in the U.S. who are experimenting with electronic menus where you can order on an iPad-type device; you can pay on that device,\" says Saltsman. \"These are changes that happen in direct response to higher labor costs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of raising the minimum wage say it might also affect the kind of people who can get hired. \u003ca href=\"http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/furchtgott-roth.htm\">Diana Furchtgott-Roth\u003c/a>, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a former chief economist at the Department of Labor, says many of the people making the minimum wage are teenagers or other part-time, entry-level workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So the people who would be the losers would be the unskilled workers,\" she says. \"The people who, like my teenager, want a summer job. No one's going to pay my teenager $15 an hour. But my teenager can get $7.25 an hour.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these arguments haven't convinced the protesters in New York. And they haven't persuaded \u003ca href=\"http://nadler.house.gov/\">Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y.\u003c/a>, who stopped by to encourage the picketers outside the Wendy's in his district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The history is every time that there's been a debate over raising the minimum wage, people have said this'll cost jobs,\" says Nadler. \"It has never happened. If they pay a higher wage, they'll make a slightly smaller profit margin. They're making huge profits now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fast-food protests continue this week with walkouts scheduled in Chicago, Milwaukee, Flint, Mich., and Detroit. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Picketers in seven cities say McDonald's, Wendy's and other fast-food chains should pay employees $15 an hour. But the restaurant industry says that would force those companies to cut jobs.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1375201788,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":650},"headData":{"title":"Fast-Food Strikers Demand A 'Living Wage' | KQED","description":"Picketers in seven cities say McDonald's, Wendy's and other fast-food chains should pay employees $15 an hour. 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Photo: Justin Lane/EPA/Landov\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/07/27/205240639/tucson-food-bank-helps-the-needy-grow-their-own-food\">Morning Edition\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"audio","attributes":{"named":{"src":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2013/07/20130730_me_16.mp3","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/159989569/joel-rose\">Joel Rose\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/07/30/206714894/fast-food-strikers-demand-a-living-wage\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (7/30/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a Wendy's restaurant in Lower Manhattan on Monday, protesters urged the lunchtime crowd to skip the Value Menu for one day. They blocked the sidewalk and half of the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanell Young held a red strike sign over her head. Young earns the minimum wage, $7.25 an hour, at another Wendy's in New York. She says that's not enough to support her and her 5-year-old son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's horrible,\" says Young. \"Everything goes up. It's unfair. You can't find an apartment. You can't pay for children's school uniforms. Everything is unfair. We can't live off this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast-food workers are walking picket lines across the country this week. They're staging a series of one-day strikes in seven cities, including New York, Chicago and St. Louis. The campaign is aimed at pressuring McDonald's, Wendy's and other fast-food chains to pay a so-called living wage of $15 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The walkout at the Wendy's in Lower Manhattan did not force the restaurant to close, although it did seem to persuade a few potential diners to go somewhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wendy's would not give an interview for this story. Nor would any of the other fast-food chains targeted in the strike. But the National Restaurant Association did. Spokesman Scott DeFife says profit margins in the restaurant business are typically tight — and labor costs are among the industry's biggest expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There would be a severe impact on the ability to create jobs if the minimum wage was doubling to $15,\" says DeFife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restaurant industry's allies also rallied to its defense. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.epionline.org\">Employment Policies Institute\u003c/a>, a pro-business group in Washington, D.C., bought a \u003ca href=\"http://www.minimumwage.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/EPI_IpadAd_USATodayColor.jpg\">full-page ad\u003c/a> in Monday's \u003cem>USA Today\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Saltsman, research director at the EPI, says a higher minimum wage could push fast-food companies to invest more heavily in automation instead of hourly workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are a number of chains here in the U.S. who are experimenting with electronic menus where you can order on an iPad-type device; you can pay on that device,\" says Saltsman. \"These are changes that happen in direct response to higher labor costs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of raising the minimum wage say it might also affect the kind of people who can get hired. \u003ca href=\"http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/furchtgott-roth.htm\">Diana Furchtgott-Roth\u003c/a>, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a former chief economist at the Department of Labor, says many of the people making the minimum wage are teenagers or other part-time, entry-level workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So the people who would be the losers would be the unskilled workers,\" she says. \"The people who, like my teenager, want a summer job. No one's going to pay my teenager $15 an hour. But my teenager can get $7.25 an hour.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these arguments haven't convinced the protesters in New York. And they haven't persuaded \u003ca href=\"http://nadler.house.gov/\">Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y.\u003c/a>, who stopped by to encourage the picketers outside the Wendy's in his district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The history is every time that there's been a debate over raising the minimum wage, people have said this'll cost jobs,\" says Nadler. \"It has never happened. If they pay a higher wage, they'll make a slightly smaller profit margin. 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Photo: Mary Altaffer/AP\" width=\"624\" height=\"467\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59535\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators from the Fast Food Forward rally protest Thursday outside a Wendy's restaurant in New York City.\u003cbr> Photo: Mary Altaffer/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/04/04/176260454/nycs-fast-food-workers-strike-demand-living-wages\">All Things Considered\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2013/04/20130404_atc_16.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/159989569/joel-rose\">Joel Rose\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/04/04/176260454/nycs-fast-food-workers-strike-demand-living-wages\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (4/4/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fast-food restaurants were a little bit slower Thursday in New York City. Hundreds of workers staged a one-day strike in what organizers are calling the biggest job action ever in that industry. It's a growing segment of the economy, but workers complain that fast-food jobs don't pay enough to survive in New York City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current \u003ca href=\"http://www.labor.state.ny.us/workerprotection/laborstandards/workprot/minwage.shtm\">minimum wage\u003c/a> in New York is $7.25. That's what many fast-food workers in the city earn, including Joseph Barrera, who works at a KFC restaurant in Brooklyn. He thinks fast-food companies can afford to treat their employees better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We help them earn those billions of dollars that give them the lifestyle that the CEOs get. They earn million-dollar paychecks, so why can't they give us something that we can live on?\" says Barrera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2012/11/30/166217423/n-y-fast-food-workers-strike-for-better-wages\">second time\u003c/a> workers at fast-food restaurants around the city have walked off the job in the past six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Westin is a campaign manager for \u003ca href=\"http://www.fastfoodforward.org/en/\">Fast Food Forward\u003c/a>, the group that organized both strikes. It's calling for fast food restaurants to pay a so-called living wage of $15 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not teenagers working after-school jobs,\" says Westin. \"It's adults with families that are trying to take care of their kids and can't put food on the table. 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In fact, none of the fast-food companies we called wanted to be interviewed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, a spokesman for Burger King says the company has provided \"an entry point into the work-force for millions of Americans,\" including many who went on to be franchise owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.restaurant.org/\">National Restaurant Association\u003c/a> says the industry provides more than 13 million jobs — jobs that could be jeopardized if the minimum wage goes up. In a statement, the association says the industry is \"one of the best paths to achieving the American Dream.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that dream remains out of reach for people like Gregory Renoso, who makes minimum wage as a deliveryman for Domino's Pizza. \"People like me, we don't have education to get a better job,\" says Renoso. \"We have to do the fast-food industry. 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