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A Boring Dystopia

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[โ€“] frostysauce@lemmy.world 39 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, it's McDonald's. The manager doesn't have the ability to pay her a living wage. The manager is a wage slave as well, or even worse on salary while having to cover so many shifts they're barely averaging minimum wage themselves.

No, the person you're mad at is the franchise owner.

[โ€“] Halosheep@lemm.ee 19 points 17 hours ago

And, depending on the store, the franchise owner could be barely breaking even despite paying employees so poorly.

Restaurants, and especially Fast food, is a very low margin industry unless the stores are churning through a significant number of orders consistently throughout the day.

Source: managed a fast food store for a couple years that, after all costs, barely broke even most months of the year.