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

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50. I'm bumping this thread because I just went to Moo Cluck Moo this evening.

It was my first time there and was a little hard to find being tucked between a tattoo parlor and a transmission shop but it was well worth the search. The front of the restaurant is tiny compared to their kitchen so it can get tight when someone is eating at the small table or if there's a line, which there was by the time we got our meals. They use tablets to place your order and the process was very efficient. We had our meals (moo burger and bigger moo, both with bacon and cheese, garlic fries and milk shakes) in less than five minutes and it was all fresh.

As for quality, the burgers had a texture and flavor that resembled actual meat, not some sort of processed or reconstituted meat-product. The buns were sweet, firm and obviously fresh baked. The shakes were delicious, something we always expect when using Calder's ice cream, and the fries were probably the best either of us has ever tasted. They don't use garlic powder but instead it seems like a garlic infused oil, likely olive, which gives them an incredible flavor.

As someone else pointed out, there's no high fructose corn syrup used - even their soda is from a Michigan micro-producer using real sugar. In fact, all the ingredients were top notch and the prices were very reasonable. Coupled with paying their employees a living wage, and from what I saw treating them with respect, I don't know how you beat it. We'll be back, often.