Fast food joint pays workers $12 an hour, and lives to tell the tale

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26. I disagree with you. Look at the prices that business is asking customers to pay.

The prices are in line with and even lower than McDonald's or Burger King. The partners that are running the business obviously did their homework. Paying employees fair wages and providing medical benefits IS possible and CAN make a business wildly profitable if the owners don't go into business misty eyed and blind. I am willing to bet that if an expert goes behind the counter in that business, that expert will find several efficiencies being practiced by the owners and employees that dramatically lowers the gross margin the business needs to hit to make a profit after covering expenses. Instead of finding questionable rationale to justify doubting the chances of progressive minded businesses to survive, we should cheer those businesses, buy from them and promote the founding of more of them.