https://www.businessinsider.com/california-20-fast-food-wage-increase-pay-restaurants-retail-jobs-2024-3
"If somebody is a back-of-house line chef and they're actually preparing real food and chopping and dicing and really cooking, do they really want to go across the street and warm things or fry things?" Zackfia said.
The prestige of being a line cook is just insurmountable. Great observation.
He thinks he is making some kind of profound point, but I literally did exactly that, better hours, easier work and better pay working at fast food than being a line cook.
I have a friend that went to culinary school and worked at some 4 star restaurants and then went on to writing cookbooks for a kitchen gadget company. He now works at a U-haul and doesn't seem to have any regrets.
Line CHEF. So they're management. And the fuck kind of argument is this? I'm an amazing cook, and I will absolutely go across the street to warm and fry things if I'm not being compensated for my extra labor and skill. I told my boss when I started and was clearly way above the dishwasher position I was hired for and was running the line while working the pit at the same time within a week that they gotta take the P out of their Praise real fast. Like my idol The Joker once said 'if you're good at something, never do it for free" and accepting a shit wage means part of your skill is being used for free (it always is but you gotta try to narrow the gap). Be like the Joker, make sure the mob gives you a 40 foot pile of money before killing batman. You can just rob banks with juggalos for the lowball money. The threat of me saying "why should I bust my balls here instead of reading a book and getting stoned working at a gas station?" Is absolutely imperative.
Still too low. We used to live in the San Francisco bay area, in a 1 bedroom apartment. $32 an hour, multiple hours of overtime. After taxes, still not enough to pay rent, let alone the rest of our bills.
It's not just the bay area, I make $35 and live in a small tourist town on the other side of the country and still can barely make rent.
The only people still out here working either own or inherited homes, are homeless, or live with parents.
Minimum wage here is still $7.25/hr and average rent is $2200-$2500/mo for a one bed.
That's about 4x what the average worker out here can afford.
I’ve been quick to blame the tech sector for rent rises in these places but the true cause is rentier profit seeking, which is ubiquitous in all areas. I live in rural New England and it’s hard for people to find decent 1BR apts for less than 1200 a month
: "no no no NO! Please don't make me compete! You were supposed to all work for free, stop being entitled and GIVE ME FREE LABOR!"https://apnews.com/article/california-governor-newsom-panera-bread-fast-food-faca8695e96b0f3224da2ba6d0657e3b
Newsom signed a law last year that says fast food restaurants that are part of a chain with at least 60 locations nationally must pay their workers at least $20 per hour beginning April 1. But the law does not apply to restaurants that have their own bakeries to make and sell bread as a stand-alone menu item.
That exception appeared to apply to restaurants like Panera Bread. Last week, Bloomberg News reported that Newsom had pushed for such a carve-out to benefit donor Greg Flynn, whose company owns and operates 24 Panera Bread restaurants in California.
I can't express how angry I feel that this law is so specific. Only fast food places, with more then 60 locations, that don't serve bread. Fuck everyone else I guess. If they work for a small fast food chain their time just isn't worth as much.
If the job isn't paying a living wage, the job should not exist (if we have to have the wage commodification arrangement).
