Very enlightened and relevant, as always.
OT: Burger King
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Chik-Filet (spelling?) is shockingly good. Never understood the hype until I tried it a few months ago. Wow.
Expensive AND not good. What's not to love? And, in fact, you can get other food today quickly that's much better quality, healthier and the same price. The big fast food chains are past their prime and just hanging on through habit and sheer numbers.
If you couldn't eat 2 qtr pounders, in HS, without getting fat.. you weren't doing it right. Or maybe you were one of those smallish pencil-neck things... not that there was anything wrong with that.
..that is what I was indicating... high activity levels.. burning those calories everyday, easily... better calories were preferable, of course.. but you need not get fat.. now.. desk jobs and still doing that... you stopped growing... danger zone
but even kids not on HS sports teams year-round were playing street/sandlot/grassy park sports in the pre-video games era.. even if they had an Atari 2600 or intellivision.. actual sports were more entertaining.
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3 whoppers
3 reg cheese burgers
3 medium fries
$18+change
Employees making a decent wage, not a lot but not starvation wages (in which some people want them earning ) that what I paid would put a crimp in their budget
Some look down on people and want to keep them down
Some feel everyone deserves a living wage and are glad to see them
earning a wage that keeps them off government assistance
Not a peep is heard about top executives earning wages like this
$834,959,367
$540,513,050
$296,247,749
but let a fast food worker earn a wage that allows him/her to have a decent place to live, put food on the table and clothes on their back
then they are the ones causing the economy to fail
3 reg cheese burgers
3 medium fries
$18+change
Employees making a decent wage, not a lot but not starvation wages (in which some people want them earning ) that what I paid would put a crimp in their budget
Some look down on people and want to keep them down
Some feel everyone deserves a living wage and are glad to see them
earning a wage that keeps them off government assistance
Not a peep is heard about top executives earning wages like this
$834,959,367
$540,513,050
$296,247,749
but let a fast food worker earn a wage that allows him/her to have a decent place to live, put food on the table and clothes on their back
then they are the ones causing the economy to fail
Sorry, I didn't eat a 3,000 calorie dinner in HS (or ever in life). I'm comfortable with my slender 6'8" 225lb figure. Been this way for most of my life since 16'ish. I am eating less than before and my diet continues to evolve, but I never was really a junk eater, even during my sporting days.
I ate plenty of junk food , on my own, as a teenager.
Pizza and Chinese was the only takeout my parents brought home.
I did bring fast food takeout home for kids along with Pizza and Chinese, but the fast food was a rare exception and not as an excuse to forgo home cooking.
That was the Pizza and Chinese place at the family table at mealtime
Never gained weight because of junk food back in the day because of always being active.
As I grew older junk food became far less of my diet and didn't indulge to the point that it added unwelcome weight.
Now being up there in age and even with exercising a bit, junk food isn't
part of eating out or take home often, only an infrequent indulgence.
Can't see the big deal against it, like everything in life as you get older some things need to be cut down, but still enjoyed occasional.
Life has many choices and one must do what's best for them, but still find ways to enjoy life.
disclaimer: late night White Castle runs were part of my 20s, but those little grease burgers never put on weight, but didn't make for a good morning feeling when I woke up after a run the previous night
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Pizza and Chinese was the only takeout my parents brought home.
I did bring fast food takeout home for kids along with Pizza and Chinese, but the fast food was a rare exception and not as an excuse to forgo home cooking.
That was the Pizza and Chinese place at the family table at mealtime
Never gained weight because of junk food back in the day because of always being active.
As I grew older junk food became far less of my diet and didn't indulge to the point that it added unwelcome weight.
Now being up there in age and even with exercising a bit, junk food isn't
part of eating out or take home often, only an infrequent indulgence.
Can't see the big deal against it, like everything in life as you get older some things need to be cut down, but still enjoyed occasional.
Life has many choices and one must do what's best for them, but still find ways to enjoy life.
disclaimer: late night White Castle runs were part of my 20s, but those little grease burgers never put on weight, but didn't make for a good morning feeling when I woke up after a run the previous night
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"Slender 6'8" is just a sugary way of saying "gangly, freakish oaf banished to the forest by fearful villagers."
Well said. And did he ever have any decent low post moves on the basketball court?"Slender 6'8" is just a sugary way of saying "gangly, freakish oaf banished to the forest by fearful villagers."
Absolutely not - was able to also eat a whole pizza as a teenager. My metabolism back then must've been off the charts, as I ate ridiculously, but never got fat; playing every sport imaginable likely also helped.
I grew into my freakishness! Actually, I never had a crazy growth spurt that makes you awkward and clumsy. I was always 6-12 inches taller than most dating back to early elementary school."Slender 6'8" is just a sugary way of saying "gangly, freakish oaf banished to the forest by fearful villagers."
Beginning of the end of FF burger joints. Left sez we can’t eat beef. Look 
for air fried cricket places opening up
for air fried cricket places opening up
In NJ the minimum wage is $14.13. For part time work by kids it's ok. Full time, looking to live in NJ is impossible by yourself.
The fast food industry built itself on part time employees. Why? No benefits! The franchise FF business is a dying model.
God forbid that food workers earn a living wage. How dare they! Right wing lunatics rant against the minimum wage so they can enjoy really cheap hamburgers. Everything else be damned.
Mc Donalds seems to be doing fine paying the help along with the brass
For its 2020 fiscal year, MCDONALDS CORP, listed the following executives on its annual proxy statement to the SEC
| Kevin Ozan Corporate Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | $4,531,221 View details | #21 View more |
| Christopher Kempczinski President and Chief Executive Officer | $10,847,032 View details | #28 View more |
| Joseph Erlinger President, McDonald's USA | $4,663,516 View details | #14 View more |
| Jerome Krulewitch Former Corporate Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary | $2,715,431 View details | #4 View more |
| Ian Borden President, International | $4,784,263 Viedetails |
| Heidi B. Capozzi Corporate Executive Vice President - Global Chief People Officer | $8,939,920 View details | #3 View more |
I guess its a good thing, but I still have ambivalent feelings about raising the minimum wage so much so quickly...
From what I see in some of the people around me, the $15 minimum wage has also had a big or bigger negative impact on low income and fixed income individuals who didn't happen to benefit from the wage increase, but who now have to spend more of their limited income or savings on products and food that is significantly more expensive, in large part because of the the minimum wage increase. Some of the small businesses I patronize have cut back on staff too. I wouldn't be surprised if many more low income individuals have been hurt by the $15 minimum wage than have benefited from it.
Actually the federal minimum wage has stayed the same since it was $7.25 an hour in 2009 .
But individual states have raised their minimum wage trying to help reduce those working 40 hours a week and still needing government assistants to survive without becoming homeless but fully employed.
Low wage earners are hurt by many things, but raising the minimum wage is not really one of them like many think it is, but makes a good excuse for keeping low income workers from making a living wage.
Is that just their base salary? Usually their equity is included in financials. Not many McDonald employees get equity.
Restricted stock and stock options are included in those numbers.
I'm perfectly okay with CEO's getting huge salaries. But I'm also perfectly okay with raising minimum wages to a more reasonable level.
Although this latter thing is going to be, in many cases, a moot point in the not-too-distant future. Especially for fast food workers. They'll all be replaced by fully automated facilities. Humans are just not needed to prepare and serve fast food at this point. Machines will do it better and far less expensively.
Although this latter thing is going to be, in many cases, a moot point in the not-too-distant future. Especially for fast food workers. They'll all be replaced by fully automated facilities. Humans are just not needed to prepare and serve fast food at this point. Machines will do it better and far less expensively.
If its overpriced then all fast food joints are way overpriced. At least its clean and filled with friendly servers, the food is good as well considering its FF
Problem is "reasonable level" is not equal across the country. Just for kicks I checked out apartment rentals in Ottumwa, Iowa. 1 bedrooms 500-600 a month. You pay that much in NJ for a parking space. 2 bedrooms 750-1000. Probably should raise the federal to cover recent inflation, but it doesn't need to match NY/NJ.
I agree that minimum wages should probably be a state law, not a federal one. As a general rule, I think it's wise to allow states to dictate as much law as is reasonable and possible.
But I'm not ideological about it. There are some reasonable exceptions where federal law makes more sense.
But I've never heard any great arguments for why minimum wage should not be a state law. At the very least, if there's a federal wage law, it should allow for state and possibly even county-level adjustments to accommodate varying cost of living.
I'm aware of all the good that increasing the minimum wage can do...
But also, from what I've heard from talking to many people who've been affected by the increase in prices that followed large minimum wage increases in my state, your statement above isn't always true. Here, the state sets a minimum wage, but local jurisdictions can set their own higher minimum wage if they choose to. And a significant jump in prices after a big minimum wage increase has been very real, at least here.
A little more than a blue moon for me. Maybe every 2-3 weeks when I don't feel like cooking. My go-to is two Big Macs with a glass of milk. If not McD's, a double Whopper with cheese. There's also a place down here called Krystal which is a lot like White Castle. I get a 12-pack of those once in a while for me and my lady.
That what they say about WC but I like them. Heck I like Spam sandwiches
Sugary drinks are brutal. Only time I ever drink soda is a coke at cruising altitude.