McDonald's to workers: "quit complaining"

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55. Yes, you are correct about the citations.

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I just did some google searches on number of McD's employees in the US and the same number came up on several different links, so I went with that (the 760,000 employees in the US) pretty easy to find, but I should have posted links. Now I just did a google search to see how many big macs are sold each year in the US, and I got the number 550 million a year from [quote=http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-500395_162-3200598.html]CBSNEWS[/quote]

I also did a search on the cost of Big Macs in the US (I don't buy fast food, so I don't know)...and the numbers I see for our US prices vary widely, even as low as $3.99, but I called McD's and our price here is currently 4.59, so we will go with your number.

Multiply that times six cents and you get $33 million dollars. That is just one item on the menu. When you are dealing with huge numbers, small differences can add up fast. The big mac is probably not the item they make most of the profit off of...I suspect fries and sodas is where most of their profit comes from. Not to mention we don't know if we are comparing apples to apples, since we don't know the cost of business over there, overhead, purchasing costs, or even comparing our cost of living to theirs.

I'm just saying, looking at generic numbers non exact numbers, it looks to me like we would have a really hard time convincing one company to raise it's wages if we didn't do the same for it's competition...but then...why shouldn't we do it for the competition as well? Why just hit McD's with a wage hike? Why not Burger King, KFC, Taco Bell? It should be a federal wage increase that is mandatory for everyone, so not just one company is hurt by it.

Edited to add:
Here is a link from Huffpo for number of US employees...only they use 761K
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/20/mcdonalds-vacation_n_4303629.html

And a link to CBS news on the number of big macs sold per year:
http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-500395_162-3200598.html