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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_95198":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_95198","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"95198","score":null,"sort":[1429344160000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"raising-minimum-wage-were-in-this-together","title":"Raising Minimum Wage: We’re in This Together","publishDate":1429344160,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>On Wednesday, food workers and other low-wage earners around the country \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Workers-around-the-Bay-Area-rally-for-higher-6201278.php\" target=\"_blank\">rallied\u003c/a> to increase the federal minimum wage to $15, which would more than double the current federal rate of $7.25 for untipped and $2.13 for tipped workers. In the Bay Area, where \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_27922829/east-bays-soaring-rents-spark-growing-calls-rent\" target=\"_blank\">rents have soared by 44%\u003c/a> over the last five years, steps are already underway to make this goal a reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the passage of Measure FF with 82% of the vote last fall, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/02/oakland-minimum-wage-measure-ff\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland raised the city’s minimum wage\u003c/a> from $9 to $12.25 this year. At the same time, San Francisco voters passed Proposition J, which will \u003ca href=\"http://sfgsa.org/index.aspx?page=411\" target=\"_blank\">incrementally raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2018\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while many restaurateurs and food producers agree that living wages are critical to an equitable food system, they are also struggling to figure out how make the finances work in an industry that already operates on tight margins. As food prices increase, the question remains: will Bay Area voters put their money where their mouths are?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Putting the Squeeze on Local Restaurants\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, where minimum wage increased 36% on March 2, restaurateurs have adjusted their business plans in \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/the-tipping-point/Content?oid=4197067&showFullText=true\" target=\"_blank\">numerous creative ways\u003c/a>: increasing menu prices, adding services charges, doing away with tips, or some combination of the above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"http://www.cuesa.org/seller/juhu-beach-club\" target=\"_blank\">Juhu Beach Club\u003c/a> in Temescal, owner Preeti Mistry is already feeling the pinch of the increase, having raised her menu prices to accommodate the additional overhead. In addition to increasing the wages on the restaurant’s lowest paid workers, Juhu also raised some of the kitchen crew’s wages, and servers are now sharing tips with kitchen staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re giving customers a sheet that explains the situation, but people are still shocked by the prices,” says Misty. She wants to pay her employees a living wage, but she also feels for her customers, who are getting hit with bigger restaurant bills. “People see that our restaurant is busy and they think we’re making all this money, but we’re also spending a lot of money. It’s not like we’re getting rich,” she says. “I hope people start to understand that this is the new normal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, Mistry is reluctant to raise Juhu’s prices at their recently opened Ferry Plaza Farmers Market stand, while it is still establishing a customer base. “We don’t want to create more obstacles for people to give us a try, so for now we’re just eating the costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Fair Raise for All\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Evan Bloom of \u003ca href=\"http://www.cuesa.org/seller/wise-sons-jewish-delicatessen\" target=\"_blank\">Wise Sons Jewish Delicatessen\u003c/a> is preparing for the city’s May 1 wage increase, a jump from $11.05 to $12.25. Prices at his two brick-and-mortar restaurants and Ferry Plaza Farmers Market stand will go up across the board, and he anticipates equivalent hikes in the coming years as the city’s minimum wage increase schedule plays out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a lot of misinformation out there that restaurants are just gouging diners to make a profit,” says Bloom. “The reality is that most food businesses struggle to make a profit at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to recovering from a devastating \u003ca href=\"http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2015/01/30/wise-sons-deli-reels-from-big-mission-fire/\" target=\"_blank\">Mission District fire\u003c/a> that destroyed their production kitchen, Wise Sons has also seen increases in the cost of beef and other ingredients due to the drought. All of these costs factor into the restaurant’s bottom line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of fairness to all staff, Wise Sons is not just raising the wages of their lowest paid employees. “I don’t think you can suddenly give a raise to your lowest paid employee, if it means there’s almost parity between the cook and the dishwasher,” he says. “You really have to increase everybody at the same time.” For his 50 employees, he says, the increases will result in hundreds of thousands per year in additional payroll costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bloom says he supports the increase in a city where the cost of living has rapidly outpaced earnings for most workers, but he’s interested to see how the public will react to the new pricing. “This increase was something that the city voted for, and I hope that people can see that it does affect the cost of their food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Staying Ahead of the Curve\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Back in Oakland at \u003ca href=\"http://www.cuesa.org/seller/roliroti\" target=\"_blank\">RoliRoti Gourmet Rotisserie\u003c/a>, Thomas Odermatt says the increase has not impacted his food truck and catering business. He’s been paying his employees well above minimum wage for years, and the costs are built into the price of his products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an employer, I am responsible for the social well-being of my employees, making sure that they get paid well and are safe and happy on the job,” he says. In 2006, RoliRoti started offering health insurance, 401Ks, and profit sharing for their employees. Their lowest paid employees now earn $14-15 an hour, and tips from catering gigs are shared between front-of-the-house catering workers and kitchen workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paying his employees above the mandate is also a sound business strategy. “I try to keep my business one step ahead, so that I don’t have to think about the next increase,” he says. Turnover at RoliRoti is low, and some of his employees have been with the business for 10 to 12 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Odermatt is a strong proponent of paying his workers the most he can within his business’s means, he does not look favorably upon the minimum wage increases, which he views as the government passing the buck of the Bay Area’s affordable housing crisis on to small businesses. “It should be the responsibility of a good employer to give a fair wage,” he says. “I feel like I have done the right thing, but I’m not rewarded as an employer. The employer is treated like the bad boy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like RoliRoti, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cuesa.org/seller/acme-bread-company\" target=\"_blank\">Acme Bread Company\u003c/a> pays its employees above the minimum, with a starting wage of $12.50 at its bakeries in San Francisco and Berkeley (which also passed a \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/06/27/berkeley-sets-new-minimum-wage-to-reach-12-53-by-2016/\" target=\"_blank\">new minimum wage ordinance last year\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owner Steve Sullivan sees the minimum wage increase as leveling the playing field. “You don’t have to wonder about whether your competitors are paying lower wages or not paying for health care, because everyone has to participate.” Each year, the company adjusts their product prices based on many factors, including the costs of flour, fuel, energy, and labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because turnover is low at Acme, many employees are making close to $15 an hour at this point. At least in the short term, Sullivan does not foresee a large impact from the wage ordinances, though it may mean that newly hired employees’ wages stay static for longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can never pay people as much as you’d like to, but you want to be able to pay people enough so they can live a reasonable life in the context of what it costs to get by,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Keeping Local Food Businesses Viable\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Oakland-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.cuesa.org/seller/hodo-soy-beanery\" target=\"_blank\">Hodo Soy Beanery\u003c/a> raised all of its workers’ pay by 20% this March, ensuring that longer-term and higher-level employees also benefited from the wage increase. “I am in favor of the new minimum wage,” says founder Minh Tsai. “The fact that it wasn’t phased in was challenging, but we support it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Juhu Beach Club, Wise Sons, RoliRoti, and Acme, Hodo Soy makes sourcing quality ingredients a priority, using only organic, non-GMO soybeans in their tofu products. So far, Hodo Soy has not had to raise product prices, but as a food manufacturer without a retail storefront, he recognizes that his company can more easily absorb the increase than restaurants, which have high front-of-the-house labor costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether or not a food business has to raise its prices in this transition, he hopes that Bay Area customers will continue to support businesses that maintain a commitment to sustainability. Like sourcing local and organic produce, paying for worker welfare is an important step.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he puts it, “Labor is a precious ingredient. You want ingredients to be grown well, and you also want workers to have the freedom to live here and have a meaningful wage. You can’t separate the two.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are all committed to being Bay Area producers,” he continues. “The cost of living is rising for everybody. Some businesses will have to raise prices, and others won’t. Our customers have been supporting us for years, and we hope they will continue to support us as we support our laborers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Support all of these businesses at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.cuesa.org/event/2015/evolving-city-evolving-restaurants\" target=\"_blank\">join CUESA on Tuesday, April 21 for a conversation\u003c/a> about the how restaurants are adapting to a changing San Francisco.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"On Wednesday, food workers and other low-wage earners around the country rallied to increase the federal minimum wage to $15, which would more than double the current federal rate of $7.25 for untipped and $2.13 for tipped workers. 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In the Bay Area, where \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_27922829/east-bays-soaring-rents-spark-growing-calls-rent\" target=\"_blank\">rents have soared by 44%\u003c/a> over the last five years, steps are already underway to make this goal a reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the passage of Measure FF with 82% of the vote last fall, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/02/oakland-minimum-wage-measure-ff\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland raised the city’s minimum wage\u003c/a> from $9 to $12.25 this year. At the same time, San Francisco voters passed Proposition J, which will \u003ca href=\"http://sfgsa.org/index.aspx?page=411\" target=\"_blank\">incrementally raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2018\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while many restaurateurs and food producers agree that living wages are critical to an equitable food system, they are also struggling to figure out how make the finances work in an industry that already operates on tight margins. As food prices increase, the question remains: will Bay Area voters put their money where their mouths are?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Putting the Squeeze on Local Restaurants\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, where minimum wage increased 36% on March 2, restaurateurs have adjusted their business plans in \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/the-tipping-point/Content?oid=4197067&showFullText=true\" target=\"_blank\">numerous creative ways\u003c/a>: increasing menu prices, adding services charges, doing away with tips, or some combination of the above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"http://www.cuesa.org/seller/juhu-beach-club\" target=\"_blank\">Juhu Beach Club\u003c/a> in Temescal, owner Preeti Mistry is already feeling the pinch of the increase, having raised her menu prices to accommodate the additional overhead. In addition to increasing the wages on the restaurant’s lowest paid workers, Juhu also raised some of the kitchen crew’s wages, and servers are now sharing tips with kitchen staff.\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>“We’re giving customers a sheet that explains the situation, but people are still shocked by the prices,” says Misty. She wants to pay her employees a living wage, but she also feels for her customers, who are getting hit with bigger restaurant bills. “People see that our restaurant is busy and they think we’re making all this money, but we’re also spending a lot of money. It’s not like we’re getting rich,” she says. “I hope people start to understand that this is the new normal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, Mistry is reluctant to raise Juhu’s prices at their recently opened Ferry Plaza Farmers Market stand, while it is still establishing a customer base. “We don’t want to create more obstacles for people to give us a try, so for now we’re just eating the costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Fair Raise for All\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Evan Bloom of \u003ca href=\"http://www.cuesa.org/seller/wise-sons-jewish-delicatessen\" target=\"_blank\">Wise Sons Jewish Delicatessen\u003c/a> is preparing for the city’s May 1 wage increase, a jump from $11.05 to $12.25. Prices at his two brick-and-mortar restaurants and Ferry Plaza Farmers Market stand will go up across the board, and he anticipates equivalent hikes in the coming years as the city’s minimum wage increase schedule plays out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s a lot of misinformation out there that restaurants are just gouging diners to make a profit,” says Bloom. “The reality is that most food businesses struggle to make a profit at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to recovering from a devastating \u003ca href=\"http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2015/01/30/wise-sons-deli-reels-from-big-mission-fire/\" target=\"_blank\">Mission District fire\u003c/a> that destroyed their production kitchen, Wise Sons has also seen increases in the cost of beef and other ingredients due to the drought. All of these costs factor into the restaurant’s bottom line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out of fairness to all staff, Wise Sons is not just raising the wages of their lowest paid employees. “I don’t think you can suddenly give a raise to your lowest paid employee, if it means there’s almost parity between the cook and the dishwasher,” he says. “You really have to increase everybody at the same time.” For his 50 employees, he says, the increases will result in hundreds of thousands per year in additional payroll costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bloom says he supports the increase in a city where the cost of living has rapidly outpaced earnings for most workers, but he’s interested to see how the public will react to the new pricing. “This increase was something that the city voted for, and I hope that people can see that it does affect the cost of their food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Staying Ahead of the Curve\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Back in Oakland at \u003ca href=\"http://www.cuesa.org/seller/roliroti\" target=\"_blank\">RoliRoti Gourmet Rotisserie\u003c/a>, Thomas Odermatt says the increase has not impacted his food truck and catering business. He’s been paying his employees well above minimum wage for years, and the costs are built into the price of his products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an employer, I am responsible for the social well-being of my employees, making sure that they get paid well and are safe and happy on the job,” he says. In 2006, RoliRoti started offering health insurance, 401Ks, and profit sharing for their employees. Their lowest paid employees now earn $14-15 an hour, and tips from catering gigs are shared between front-of-the-house catering workers and kitchen workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paying his employees above the mandate is also a sound business strategy. “I try to keep my business one step ahead, so that I don’t have to think about the next increase,” he says. Turnover at RoliRoti is low, and some of his employees have been with the business for 10 to 12 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Odermatt is a strong proponent of paying his workers the most he can within his business’s means, he does not look favorably upon the minimum wage increases, which he views as the government passing the buck of the Bay Area’s affordable housing crisis on to small businesses. “It should be the responsibility of a good employer to give a fair wage,” he says. “I feel like I have done the right thing, but I’m not rewarded as an employer. The employer is treated like the bad boy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like RoliRoti, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cuesa.org/seller/acme-bread-company\" target=\"_blank\">Acme Bread Company\u003c/a> pays its employees above the minimum, with a starting wage of $12.50 at its bakeries in San Francisco and Berkeley (which also passed a \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/06/27/berkeley-sets-new-minimum-wage-to-reach-12-53-by-2016/\" target=\"_blank\">new minimum wage ordinance last year\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Owner Steve Sullivan sees the minimum wage increase as leveling the playing field. “You don’t have to wonder about whether your competitors are paying lower wages or not paying for health care, because everyone has to participate.” Each year, the company adjusts their product prices based on many factors, including the costs of flour, fuel, energy, and labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because turnover is low at Acme, many employees are making close to $15 an hour at this point. At least in the short term, Sullivan does not foresee a large impact from the wage ordinances, though it may mean that newly hired employees’ wages stay static for longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can never pay people as much as you’d like to, but you want to be able to pay people enough so they can live a reasonable life in the context of what it costs to get by,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Keeping Local Food Businesses Viable\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Oakland-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.cuesa.org/seller/hodo-soy-beanery\" target=\"_blank\">Hodo Soy Beanery\u003c/a> raised all of its workers’ pay by 20% this March, ensuring that longer-term and higher-level employees also benefited from the wage increase. “I am in favor of the new minimum wage,” says founder Minh Tsai. “The fact that it wasn’t phased in was challenging, but we support it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Juhu Beach Club, Wise Sons, RoliRoti, and Acme, Hodo Soy makes sourcing quality ingredients a priority, using only organic, non-GMO soybeans in their tofu products. So far, Hodo Soy has not had to raise product prices, but as a food manufacturer without a retail storefront, he recognizes that his company can more easily absorb the increase than restaurants, which have high front-of-the-house labor costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether or not a food business has to raise its prices in this transition, he hopes that Bay Area customers will continue to support businesses that maintain a commitment to sustainability. Like sourcing local and organic produce, paying for worker welfare is an important step.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he puts it, “Labor is a precious ingredient. You want ingredients to be grown well, and you also want workers to have the freedom to live here and have a meaningful wage. You can’t separate the two.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are all committed to being Bay Area producers,” he continues. “The cost of living is rising for everybody. Some businesses will have to raise prices, and others won’t. Our customers have been supporting us for years, and we hope they will continue to support us as we support our laborers.”\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>Support all of these businesses at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.cuesa.org/event/2015/evolving-city-evolving-restaurants\" target=\"_blank\">join CUESA on Tuesday, April 21 for a conversation\u003c/a> about the how restaurants are adapting to a changing San Francisco.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/95198/raising-minimum-wage-were-in-this-together","authors":["byline_bayareabites_95198"],"categories":["bayareabites_109","bayareabites_12276","bayareabites_8770","bayareabites_1962","bayareabites_1874","bayareabites_95","bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_1875","bayareabites_366","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_12104","bayareabites_14376","bayareabites_11794","bayareabites_14377"],"featImg":"bayareabites_95202","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":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Across The Country, Fast-Food Workers Rally For $15-An-Hour Pay","datePublished":"2014-09-05T03:05:09.000Z","dateModified":"2014-09-05T15:27:02.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"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_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. But not everyone agrees that raising the minimum wage will fix the problem.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1386271935,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":990},"headData":{"title":"Fast-Food Workers Cry Poverty Wages As McDonald's Buys Luxury Jet | KQED","description":"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. 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\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":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Why U.S. Taxpayers Pay $7 Billion A Year To Help Fast-Food Workers","datePublished":"2013-10-16T20:53:02.000Z","dateModified":"2013-10-16T20:53:02.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"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":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"McDonald's President Was Caught Off Guard By Low-Wage, Single Mom","datePublished":"2013-10-11T23:00:59.000Z","dateModified":"2013-10-11T23:00:59.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"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_69240":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_69240","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"69240","score":null,"sort":[1377895697000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-fast-food-restaurants-that-require-few-human-workers","title":"The Fast-Food Restaurants That Require Few Human Workers","publishDate":1377895697,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_69270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1120px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/automat.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/automat.jpg\" alt=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/08/28/216541023/the-fast-food-restaurants-that-require-few-human-workers. Photo: John Kannenberg/Flickr\" width=\"1120\" height=\"840\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69270\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/08/28/216541023/the-fast-food-restaurants-that-require-few-human-workers. Photo: John Kannenberg/Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/144449221/elise-hu\">Elise Hu\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/08/28/216541023/the-fast-food-restaurants-that-require-few-human-workers\">All Tech Considered at NPR Food\u003c/a> (8/29/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In perhaps the largest nationwide fast-food strike in history, the employees who make your 99-cent burgers and tacos were \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/08/29/largest-strike-so-far-by-fast-food-workers-set-for-thursday/\">planning strikes\u003c/a> in 50 U.S. cities Thursday. Workers are calling for a $15 minimum wage and hoping to raise attention to the fast-food industry's low pay and limited prospects. The current federal minimum wage standard is $7.25 per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_69271\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/automat-febo.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/automat-febo-290x217.jpg\" alt=\"The Febo snack bar is open all night. Photo: Adam Jackson/Flickr\" width=\"290\" height=\"217\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69271\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Febo snack bar is open all night. Photo: Adam Jackson/Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Business-friendly groups argue that the push for higher wages will only speed up the workers' \"replacement by automation,\" especially if the demand for a higher minimum wage is met.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The burgers of tomorrow could be made by robots — not employees,\" argues The Employment Policies Institute, a business-financed think tank that is running a full-page ad against the strike in \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.epionline.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/EPI_MinimumWageRobot_WSJ_final_lowres.pdf\">The Wall Street Journal\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fight for $15 is a fight against technology, not management — and that's a fight that these union-organized protestors can't win. Instead of securing a bigger paycheck, the less-experienced employees demanding a more than 100 percent pay increase will find their jobs replaced by less-costly alternatives,\" Michael Saltsman, research director at EPI, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_69272\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 217px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/automat-japan.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/automat-japan-217x290.jpg\" alt=\"At Japanese automats, you buy a ticket in the machine, hand in the ticket with your order, and pick up your food. Photo: Anna Lee/Flickr\" width=\"217\" height=\"290\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69272\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Japanese automats, you buy a ticket in the machine, hand in the ticket with your order, and pick up your food. Photo: Anna Lee/Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The chances of Congress raising the federal minimum wage are beyond slim, especially during a time when the only bills lawmakers can seem to pass involve renaming post offices. But the automation question got us thinking. Haven't we seen automated fast-food restaurants somewhere before?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes! They're called \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat\">automats\u003c/a> — restaurants where the food is served by vending machines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, \u003ca href=\"http://www.holland.com/global/tourism/article/febo-amsterdam-2.htm\">Amsterdam's Febo chain\u003c/a> of stores feature only vending-machine service for burgers, fries and more. A few employees are responsible for stocking the items behind the machines but way out of customer view, so you can walk up, drop in your coins and get a hot meal after a long night out without talking to anyone face-to-face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Japan also has a version of automats, known there as \u003cem>shokkenki\u003c/em>. There, you choose the meal you want and purchase a ticket for it, then you hand in your ticket to the cook behind the counter. I guess this eliminates the role for the person who takes your order at the register.\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the serverless restaurant was actually in vogue in the United States at the turn of the 20th century. \u003ca href=\"http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/object_aug01.html\">\u003cem>Smithsonian Magazine\u003c/em> looked back\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"Horn & Hardart and its cavernous, waiterless establishments represented a combination of fast-food, vending and cafeteria-style eateries. These restaurants, with their chrome-and-glass coin-operated machines, brought high-tech, inexpensive eating to a low-tech era. Making their debut in Philadelphia in 1902, just up the street from Independence Hall, and reaching Manhattan in 1912, Horn & Hardart Automats became an American icon, celebrated in song and humor. With their uniform recipes and centralized commissary system of supplying their restaurants, the Automats were America's first major fast-food chain.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But by the 1970s, the magazine explains, automats fell victim to consumers' changing tastes and lifestyles. Americans had moved into the suburbs, which killed the late night business at downtown automats. And places like McDonald's had lower food costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that automation is en vogue again, maybe automats, like so many other trends, will get a chance at a comeback.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nCopyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As fast-food workers go on strike in cities across the country, opponents argue robots could replace them if their demands for a higher minimum wage are met. But robots for fast food exist already — kind of.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1377895697,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":623},"headData":{"title":"The Fast-Food Restaurants That Require Few Human Workers | KQED","description":"As fast-food workers go on strike in cities across the country, opponents argue robots could replace them if their demands for a higher minimum wage are met. 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Photo: John Kannenberg/Flickr\" width=\"1120\" height=\"840\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69270\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/08/28/216541023/the-fast-food-restaurants-that-require-few-human-workers. Photo: John Kannenberg/Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/144449221/elise-hu\">Elise Hu\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/08/28/216541023/the-fast-food-restaurants-that-require-few-human-workers\">All Tech Considered at NPR Food\u003c/a> (8/29/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In perhaps the largest nationwide fast-food strike in history, the employees who make your 99-cent burgers and tacos were \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/08/29/largest-strike-so-far-by-fast-food-workers-set-for-thursday/\">planning strikes\u003c/a> in 50 U.S. cities Thursday. Workers are calling for a $15 minimum wage and hoping to raise attention to the fast-food industry's low pay and limited prospects. The current federal minimum wage standard is $7.25 per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_69271\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/automat-febo.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/automat-febo-290x217.jpg\" alt=\"The Febo snack bar is open all night. Photo: Adam Jackson/Flickr\" width=\"290\" height=\"217\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69271\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Febo snack bar is open all night. Photo: Adam Jackson/Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Business-friendly groups argue that the push for higher wages will only speed up the workers' \"replacement by automation,\" especially if the demand for a higher minimum wage is met.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The burgers of tomorrow could be made by robots — not employees,\" argues The Employment Policies Institute, a business-financed think tank that is running a full-page ad against the strike in \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.epionline.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/EPI_MinimumWageRobot_WSJ_final_lowres.pdf\">The Wall Street Journal\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fight for $15 is a fight against technology, not management — and that's a fight that these union-organized protestors can't win. Instead of securing a bigger paycheck, the less-experienced employees demanding a more than 100 percent pay increase will find their jobs replaced by less-costly alternatives,\" Michael Saltsman, research director at EPI, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_69272\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 217px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/automat-japan.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/automat-japan-217x290.jpg\" alt=\"At Japanese automats, you buy a ticket in the machine, hand in the ticket with your order, and pick up your food. Photo: Anna Lee/Flickr\" width=\"217\" height=\"290\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-69272\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Japanese automats, you buy a ticket in the machine, hand in the ticket with your order, and pick up your food. Photo: Anna Lee/Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The chances of Congress raising the federal minimum wage are beyond slim, especially during a time when the only bills lawmakers can seem to pass involve renaming post offices. But the automation question got us thinking. Haven't we seen automated fast-food restaurants somewhere before?\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>Yes! They're called \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat\">automats\u003c/a> — restaurants where the food is served by vending machines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, \u003ca href=\"http://www.holland.com/global/tourism/article/febo-amsterdam-2.htm\">Amsterdam's Febo chain\u003c/a> of stores feature only vending-machine service for burgers, fries and more. A few employees are responsible for stocking the items behind the machines but way out of customer view, so you can walk up, drop in your coins and get a hot meal after a long night out without talking to anyone face-to-face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Japan also has a version of automats, known there as \u003cem>shokkenki\u003c/em>. There, you choose the meal you want and purchase a ticket for it, then you hand in your ticket to the cook behind the counter. I guess this eliminates the role for the person who takes your order at the register.\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the serverless restaurant was actually in vogue in the United States at the turn of the 20th century. \u003ca href=\"http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/object_aug01.html\">\u003cem>Smithsonian Magazine\u003c/em> looked back\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"Horn & Hardart and its cavernous, waiterless establishments represented a combination of fast-food, vending and cafeteria-style eateries. These restaurants, with their chrome-and-glass coin-operated machines, brought high-tech, inexpensive eating to a low-tech era. Making their debut in Philadelphia in 1902, just up the street from Independence Hall, and reaching Manhattan in 1912, Horn & Hardart Automats became an American icon, celebrated in song and humor. With their uniform recipes and centralized commissary system of supplying their restaurants, the Automats were America's first major fast-food chain.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But by the 1970s, the magazine explains, automats fell victim to consumers' changing tastes and lifestyles. Americans had moved into the suburbs, which killed the late night business at downtown automats. And places like McDonald's had lower food costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that automation is en vogue again, maybe automats, like so many other trends, will get a chance at a comeback.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nCopyright 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/69240/the-fast-food-restaurants-that-require-few-human-workers","authors":["byline_bayareabites_69240"],"categories":["bayareabites_1962","bayareabites_4084","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_181"],"tags":["bayareabites_12290","bayareabites_12292","bayareabites_12291","bayareabites_1435","bayareabites_12104","bayareabites_12296","bayareabites_989","bayareabites_12293","bayareabites_10921"],"featImg":"bayareabites_69269","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_69039":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_69039","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"69039","score":null,"sort":[1377795743000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"for-restaurant-workers-a-struggle-to-put-food-on-the-table","title":"For Restaurant Workers, A Struggle To Put Food On The Table","publishDate":1377795743,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_69045\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1120px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/food-worker-family.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/food-worker-family.jpg\" alt=\"Losia Nyankale helps daughter Jonessa and son Juliean learn the alphabet. Nyankale, who works in a restaurant in Washington, D.C., says she needs food stamps and child-care subsidies to make ends meet. Photo: Jennifer Ludden/NPR\" width=\"1120\" height=\"839\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69045\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Losia Nyankale helps daughter Jonessa and son Juliean learn the alphabet. Nyankale, who works in a restaurant in Washington, D.C., says she needs food stamps and child-care subsidies to make ends meet. Photo: Jennifer Ludden/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/08/29/216495125/for-restaurant-workers-a-struggle-to-put-food-on-the-table\">Morning Edition\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2013/08/20130829_me_16.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/2100815/jennifer-ludden\">Jennifer Ludden\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/08/29/216495125/for-restaurant-workers-a-struggle-to-put-food-on-the-table\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (8/29/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Losia Nyankale, 29, didn't \u003cem>mean\u003c/em> to make a career in the restaurant business. But after Nyankale was in college for two years, her mom lost her job as a schoolteacher and could no longer pay tuition. Then, Nyankale's temp jobs in bookkeeping dried up in the recession. So she went back to her standby — restaurant work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did some kitchen work. The pantries or the salad station,\" she says. \"I've also managed, supervised, wash[ed] dishes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, after her waitressing shift in a tony Washington, D.C., neighborhood, Nyankale picks up her 5-year-old son from school and her 4-year-old daughter from day care. Then it's an hourlong trek on the subway and bus to Nyankale's third-floor walk-up apartment. She and the children's father are separated, and he takes the kids on weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nyankale, who started out in fast food, joined such workers in a protest march in New York this past spring. The union-backed movement is asking for the right to organize and for \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/08/29/largest-strike-so-far-by-fast-food-workers-set-for-thursday/\">a pay increase\u003c/a> to $15 per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nyankale is actually luckier than many restaurant workers; with tips, she \u003cem>can \u003c/em>sometimes make that much. But she has cut back her hours — to 25 a week — to allow time with her children. The only way she can make ends meet now, she says, is through food stamps and subsidies for rent and child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traditionally, the food and restaurant industry has been an entry point for young people, who then move up. But today, according to government figures, the average such employee is 29 years old. And, like Nyankale, nearly a quarter of them are parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juggling Jobs, Long Hours\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nyankale has tried working more. When the kids were very young, she juggled two part-time waitressing jobs, routinely getting off at 1 or 2 a.m. To find cheap child care at that hour, she went on Craigslist, but the women offering to watch kids in their homes were hit or miss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You'd show up at the door and they're not home,\" Nyankale says. \"And then if you're trying to potty train [the children, the sitter's] not doing anything, or you pick up your child and your hand's soaked because their diaper hasn't been changed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nyankale tears up thinking about it. \"You know, there were times where I just went to work just to pay for my babysitter,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, some restaurant workers say they pay more than one-third of their income for child care, says Saru Jayaraman, co-founder and co-director of the worker advocacy group the Restaurant Opportunities Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says most restaurant workers are part time, which means no paid time off. So when a child gets sick, \"it creates a real crisis. Basically, lose your job and go get your child,\" Jayaraman says. \"Or, scramble to try to find some informal care that might be able to go get your child for you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jayaraman supports a bill to raise the minimum wage to just over $10. So far, there's not enough congressional support to pass that, let alone the $15 per hour that fast-food workers are striking for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Case Against Higher Wages\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry officials say a sharp increase in the minimum wage would kill jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Doubling the minimum wage is absolutely, positively going to reduce the number of jobs,\" says Scott DeFife, executive vice president of policy and government affairs at the National Restaurant Association. He says the industry is proud that one-third of all American adults got their start in restaurant jobs. Part-time work and flexible schedules are a big attraction for many, he says, and he points out that half of those making the minimum wage are teenagers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Above all, DeFife says, the restaurant industry offers opportunity. \"It's there for people who have had economic difficulties in the past, or who may not have finished four years of a college or university program,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some workers say they find it impossible to get ahead making the minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Constantly Behind On Bills\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I been cooking all my life. My grandmother, at like 5 years old, threw me in the kitchen,\" says Christopher Drumgold of Detroit. The 32-year-old father of two is a kitchen worker at a McDonald's and makes $7.40 an hour, Michigan's minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drumgold wanted to make a career of cooking and spent six months at the Le Cordon Bleu cooking school in Las Vegas. But he worked as an overnight security guard to pay tuition and couldn't keep up with his classes. Nearly a decade of restaurant work later, Drumgold's pay has hovered between $6 and $9 an hour — hardly enough to support himself, he says, let alone his two children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The day care I send my kids to, they have an overnight stay,\" Drumgold says. \"The monthly charge comes to near, like, $100\" for each child, he says. He's constantly behind on bills and must sometimes decide between spending what he has on food or on rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drumgold plans to join nationwide strike marches on Thursday, even if the fight for higher wages is a long one. He hopes his kids don't spend their working life in fast food. But if they have to, he says, they should be able to make a better living at it than he can. \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":"Fast food and restaurant work used to be seen as an entry point for the young. Today, the average such employee is 29, and nearly a quarter are parents. For these workers, current wages are hardly enough to support them, let alone their families.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1377795743,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":995},"headData":{"title":"For Restaurant Workers, A Struggle To Put Food On The Table | KQED","description":"Fast food and restaurant work used to be seen as an entry point for the young. 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Nyankale, who works in a restaurant in Washington, D.C., says she needs food stamps and child-care subsidies to make ends meet. Photo: Jennifer Ludden/NPR\" width=\"1120\" height=\"839\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69045\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Losia Nyankale helps daughter Jonessa and son Juliean learn the alphabet. Nyankale, who works in a restaurant in Washington, D.C., says she needs food stamps and child-care subsidies to make ends meet. Photo: Jennifer Ludden/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/08/29/216495125/for-restaurant-workers-a-struggle-to-put-food-on-the-table\">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/2013/08/20130829_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/2100815/jennifer-ludden\">Jennifer Ludden\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/08/29/216495125/for-restaurant-workers-a-struggle-to-put-food-on-the-table\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (8/29/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Losia Nyankale, 29, didn't \u003cem>mean\u003c/em> to make a career in the restaurant business. But after Nyankale was in college for two years, her mom lost her job as a schoolteacher and could no longer pay tuition. Then, Nyankale's temp jobs in bookkeeping dried up in the recession. So she went back to her standby — restaurant work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did some kitchen work. The pantries or the salad station,\" she says. \"I've also managed, supervised, wash[ed] dishes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, after her waitressing shift in a tony Washington, D.C., neighborhood, Nyankale picks up her 5-year-old son from school and her 4-year-old daughter from day care. Then it's an hourlong trek on the subway and bus to Nyankale's third-floor walk-up apartment. She and the children's father are separated, and he takes the kids on weekends.\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>Nyankale, who started out in fast food, joined such workers in a protest march in New York this past spring. The union-backed movement is asking for the right to organize and for \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/08/29/largest-strike-so-far-by-fast-food-workers-set-for-thursday/\">a pay increase\u003c/a> to $15 per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nyankale is actually luckier than many restaurant workers; with tips, she \u003cem>can \u003c/em>sometimes make that much. But she has cut back her hours — to 25 a week — to allow time with her children. The only way she can make ends meet now, she says, is through food stamps and subsidies for rent and child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traditionally, the food and restaurant industry has been an entry point for young people, who then move up. But today, according to government figures, the average such employee is 29 years old. And, like Nyankale, nearly a quarter of them are parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juggling Jobs, Long Hours\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nyankale has tried working more. When the kids were very young, she juggled two part-time waitressing jobs, routinely getting off at 1 or 2 a.m. To find cheap child care at that hour, she went on Craigslist, but the women offering to watch kids in their homes were hit or miss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You'd show up at the door and they're not home,\" Nyankale says. \"And then if you're trying to potty train [the children, the sitter's] not doing anything, or you pick up your child and your hand's soaked because their diaper hasn't been changed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nyankale tears up thinking about it. \"You know, there were times where I just went to work just to pay for my babysitter,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, some restaurant workers say they pay more than one-third of their income for child care, says Saru Jayaraman, co-founder and co-director of the worker advocacy group the Restaurant Opportunities Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says most restaurant workers are part time, which means no paid time off. So when a child gets sick, \"it creates a real crisis. Basically, lose your job and go get your child,\" Jayaraman says. \"Or, scramble to try to find some informal care that might be able to go get your child for you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jayaraman supports a bill to raise the minimum wage to just over $10. So far, there's not enough congressional support to pass that, let alone the $15 per hour that fast-food workers are striking for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Case Against Higher Wages\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry officials say a sharp increase in the minimum wage would kill jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Doubling the minimum wage is absolutely, positively going to reduce the number of jobs,\" says Scott DeFife, executive vice president of policy and government affairs at the National Restaurant Association. He says the industry is proud that one-third of all American adults got their start in restaurant jobs. Part-time work and flexible schedules are a big attraction for many, he says, and he points out that half of those making the minimum wage are teenagers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Above all, DeFife says, the restaurant industry offers opportunity. \"It's there for people who have had economic difficulties in the past, or who may not have finished four years of a college or university program,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some workers say they find it impossible to get ahead making the minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Constantly Behind On Bills\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I been cooking all my life. My grandmother, at like 5 years old, threw me in the kitchen,\" says Christopher Drumgold of Detroit. The 32-year-old father of two is a kitchen worker at a McDonald's and makes $7.40 an hour, Michigan's minimum wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drumgold wanted to make a career of cooking and spent six months at the Le Cordon Bleu cooking school in Las Vegas. But he worked as an overnight security guard to pay tuition and couldn't keep up with his classes. Nearly a decade of restaurant work later, Drumgold's pay has hovered between $6 and $9 an hour — hardly enough to support himself, he says, let alone his two children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The day care I send my kids to, they have an overnight stay,\" Drumgold says. \"The monthly charge comes to near, like, $100\" for each child, he says. He's constantly behind on bills and must sometimes decide between spending what he has on food or on rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drumgold plans to join nationwide strike marches on Thursday, even if the fight for higher wages is a long one. He hopes his kids don't spend their working life in fast food. But if they have to, he says, they should be able to make a better living at it than he can. \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/69039/for-restaurant-workers-a-struggle-to-put-food-on-the-table","authors":["byline_bayareabites_69039"],"categories":["bayareabites_1962","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_34","bayareabites_181"],"tags":["bayareabites_12104","bayareabites_11427","bayareabites_10921"],"featImg":"bayareabites_69044","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_69050":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_69050","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"69050","score":null,"sort":[1377795640000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"largest-strike-so-far-by-fast-food-workers-set-for-thursday","title":"Largest Strike So Far By Fast-Food Workers Set For Thursday","publishDate":1377795640,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_69056\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1120px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/tacobell-protest.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/08/tacobell-protest.jpg\" alt=\"Outside a Taco Bell restaurant in Warren, Mich., early Thursday, supporters of the push by fast-food workers to raise the minimum wage were marching. Photo: Jessica J. Trevino /MCT/Landov\" width=\"1120\" height=\"839\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69056\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Outside a Taco Bell restaurant in Warren, Mich., early Thursday, supporters of the push by fast-food workers to raise the minimum wage were marching. Photo: Jessica J. Trevino /MCT/Landov\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/104192887/mark-memmott\">Mark Memmott\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/29/216765679/largest-strike-so-far-by-fast-food-workers-set-for-thursday\">The Two-Way\u003c/a> at NPR Food News (8/29/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers say workers at fast-food restaurants in cities across the nation will walk off their jobs Thursday in what's expected to be the largest such strike so far, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=216549079\" target=\"_blank\">The Associated Press writes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the wire service adds:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"Thursday's planned walkouts follow a series of strikes that began last November in New York City, then spread to cities including Chicago, Detroit and Seattle. Workers say they want $15 an hour, which would be about $31,000 a year for full-time employees. That's more than double the federal minimum wage, which many fast food workers make, of $7.25 an hour, or $15,000 a year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/29/us-usa-restaurants-strike-idUSBRE97S05320130829\" target=\"_blank\">According to Reuters\u003c/a>, \"employees of McDonald's Corp, Wendy's Restaurants LLC, Burger King Worldwide Inc and others have pledged to walk off their jobs in 50 cities from Boston, Mass., to Alameda, Calif., organizers say. They are expected to be joined by retail employees at stores owned by Macy's Inc., Sears Holdings Corp. and Dollar Tree Inc. in some cities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/08/29/for-restaurant-workers-a-struggle-to-put-food-on-the-table/\" target=\"_blank\">Thursday on \u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/08/29/216495125/for-restaurant-workers-a-struggle-to-put-food-on-the-table\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Edition\u003c/a> \u003c/em>and on The Salt blog, NPR's Jennifer Ludden reported about the struggle that many restaurant workers have to put food on their own tables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saru Jayaraman, co-founder and co-director of the worker advocacy group the Restaurant Opportunities Center, tells NPR that the cost of child care alone can eat up one-third of some restaurant workers' incomes. She supports a bill to raise the minimum wage to just over $10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as Jennifer adds, \"industry officials say a sharp increase in the minimum wage would kill jobs\" by forcing some employers to cut positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update at 9:40 a.m. ET. Protest In Manhattan:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Associated Press writes that \"in New York, about 300 to 400 protesters marched and flooded inside a McDonald's near the Empire State Building. Shortly after the demonstration, however, the restaurant seemed to be operating normally and a few customers said they hadn't heard of the movement. The same was true at a McDonald's a few blocks away.\" \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":"In 50 cities across the nation, many employees at fast-food restaurants have pledged to walk out. They're hoping to draw attention to their campaign for an increase in the minimum wage.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1377795792,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":393},"headData":{"title":"Largest Strike So Far By Fast-Food Workers Set For Thursday | KQED","description":"In 50 cities across the nation, many employees at fast-food restaurants have pledged to walk out. 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Trevino /MCT/Landov\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/104192887/mark-memmott\">Mark Memmott\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/08/29/216765679/largest-strike-so-far-by-fast-food-workers-set-for-thursday\">The Two-Way\u003c/a> at NPR Food News (8/29/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers say workers at fast-food restaurants in cities across the nation will walk off their jobs Thursday in what's expected to be the largest such strike so far, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=216549079\" target=\"_blank\">The Associated Press writes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the wire service adds:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\"Thursday's planned walkouts follow a series of strikes that began last November in New York City, then spread to cities including Chicago, Detroit and Seattle. Workers say they want $15 an hour, which would be about $31,000 a year for full-time employees. That's more than double the federal minimum wage, which many fast food workers make, of $7.25 an hour, or $15,000 a year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/29/us-usa-restaurants-strike-idUSBRE97S05320130829\" target=\"_blank\">According to Reuters\u003c/a>, \"employees of McDonald's Corp, Wendy's Restaurants LLC, Burger King Worldwide Inc and others have pledged to walk off their jobs in 50 cities from Boston, Mass., to Alameda, Calif., organizers say. 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