Fast Food Giant Claims Credit For Killing $15 Minimum Wage

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The parent company of some of America’s largest fast food chains is claiming credit for convincing Congress to exclude a $15 minimum wage from the recent COVID relief bill, according to internal company documents reviewed by The Daily Poster

Fast Food Giant Claims Credit For Killing $15 Minimum Wage
In internal company documents, a private-equity owned conglomerate is bragging to its employees about successfully blocking a boost in pay for low-wage workers.
dailyposter.com
7:54 PM · Mar 26, 2021

https://www.dailyposter.com/p/fast-food-giant-claims-credit-for

The parent company of some of America’s largest fast food chains is claiming credit for convincing Congress to exclude a $15 minimum wage from the recent COVID relief bill, according to internal company documents reviewed by The Daily Poster. The company, which is owned by a private equity firm named after an Ayn Rand character, also says it is now working to thwart new union rights legislation.

The company’s boasts come just a few months after a government report found that some of its chains had among the highest percentage of workers relying on food stamps.

Inspire Brands — which owns Jimmy Johns, Arby’s, Sonic, and Buffalo Wild Wings, plus recently acquired Dunkin’ Donuts for $11.3 billion in November — on Thursday sent employees and franchisees a review of its government lobbying activity that highlighted its success in keeping the $15 minimum wage out of Democrats’ American Rescue Plan, the COVID-19 relief bill President Joe Biden signed earlier this month.

“We were successful in our advocacy efforts to remove the Raise the Wage Act, which would have increased the federal minimum wage to $15 and eliminated the tip credit,” reads the report.

Further down, the report notes the company’s ongoing lobbying campaign in the Senate against the PRO Act, which recently passed the House and contains a laundry list of organized labor’s goals, such as eliminating right-to-work laws and banning mandatory company-sponsored meetings that are designed to discourage union activity.

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[vercetti2021]

1. Cool!

Now I can add Sonic and Dunkins to my fuck you list. Whataburger is all I got left

[Vdizzle]

14. In-n-Out has been paying their employees well for decades.

And their product is far superior to any other burger chain... “water burger” included.

Lol.

No offense, just some burger loyalty banter

[ZonkerHarris]

19. In-n-Out owners and execs are big GOP donors but they do give to Democrats too sometimes

[BannonsLiver]

24. Yeah but In and Out is in like 5 states

Not an option for everyone.

[xmas74]

29. My daughter makes well above minimum wage at Chipotle

They also have employee benefits, holiday bonuses and a yearly bonus.
She's a college student and she receives bonuses, something my employer doesn't provide.

[PortTack]

2. BOYCOTT!!

[SheltieLover]

3. Boycott!

[Mary in S. Carolina]

4. Instead of Dunkin Dounuts

I will just use the Mom and Pop Bakery...a little more expensive and a little further away.

[myohmy2]

25. +1

...tastes better too...

[Xavier Breath]

33. I go back and forth between them

and Tim Hortons, so this is disappointing. I like Dunkin's coffee better. So many establishments that serve decaf believe they can serve weak decaf and people will swill it down simply because it's decaf, while their caffeinated offerings have all manner of exotic flavors. So, I appreciate Dunkin's decaf having some flavor to it.

And, if it turns out that Tim Hortons is selling war orphans to the circus or some damn thing, please, no one tell me. With all of the boycotts springing up from reprehensible corporate behavior, we're rapidly running out of products to buy and places to buy them.

[CentralMass]

5. Thanks. I wont given them my business. Although Oregon is a dry state (No Dunkins)

[Hoyt]

6. Think the Parlimentarian did that.

[hay rick]

15. Details, details.

[wellst0nev0ter]

28. Democrats can overrule the parliamentarian

Also a detail.

[RainCaster]

7. I don't need to eat at any of those places

They can get along just fine without my money.

[Hekate]

8. They're proud of that, are they?

[Hugh_Lebowski]

9. Oh, good ... I absolutely do not need to eat at any of those places ...

And I already avoid Jimmy John's like the plague. Hate the ownership, and they make the most painfully boring sandwiches of all time.

Of the big sandwich chains, give me Jersey Mikes all day long.

But of course I prefer the small California chain known as Togo's ... wish I had one closer.

Like the one in Santa Cruz, for example

[jmowreader]

16. Their decor did it for me

I was walking past one of their places and noticed a “hippies use back door” sign on the wall.

No business with one of those will see a cent from me.

[xmas74]

30. I like Jersey Mike's and Firehouse subs nt

[betsuni]

10. I don't get it. How did they "convince Congress"?

They gave $800,000 in campaign contributions "mostly to Republicans." Republicans wouldn't vote for a minimum wage increase anyway.

[aocommunalpunch]

22. Money equals speech.

Politicians are bought by this speech. They happily got the result they paid for.

[betsuni]

23. But who?

[Grokenstein]

11. They bragged about this to their employees??

If I ever ate at any of those places, I'd boycott 'em.

[Ziggysmom]

12. What they serve is not fit to be called nourishment.

Rubbish and disease causing, artery clogging crapola.

[Laffy Kat]

13. Those will be easy to boycott since I don't go to them anyway. nt

[Midnight Writer]

17. I buy Dunkin Donuts Coffee from the grocery. No more.

[James48]

18. Arby's ?

Damn.

Well, I guess no more roast beef for me.

[snowybirdie]

21. Arbys isn't

real roast beef anyway. Comes into the store as pink mush. Check out mom and pop pizza places. They do use real beef.

[CentralMass]

31. While boycotting these restaurants doesn't change that is not quite truth about their roast beef

https://www.mashed.com/223814/the-real-reason-arbys-roast-beef-is-cooked-in-a-bag/

It is real beef bagged with a self basting liquid. They roast it for 3 hours prior to serving.

[ZonkerHarris]

20. Time to boycott the donuts.

[joetheman]

26. DONE!!

[RANDYWILDMAN]

27. So glad we know what these companies care about

and it ain't the people who work there.

May your brains rot in your head for putting profits before people.

[GoCubsGo]

32. Glad I don't eat that shit.

[live love laugh]

34. Lobbyists need "term limits" not elected officials. nt