re: Waffle House workers are the latest group to strike, requesting $25 per hour

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Funny how they think these efforts are making living more affordable.

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Marxist logic

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So scattering, smothering, and covering is more important than nursing?

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Importance has very little to do with it.

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They want to be paid more than beginning 4 year BS degreed medical technologist, RNs, and rad techs.

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If they can get it, more power to them.

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They want to be paid more than beginning 4 year BS degreed medical technologist, RNs, and rad techs

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Sounds like all these people are underpaid. Bank tellers earn more..

Private citizens leveraging their labor for better working conditions from their private employer is doing a communism

Yeah, I don't think the folks in my local one deserve $25/hour.

Ate there Sat night at midnight, with my hot Pennsylvania blonde friend Heather (no pics). She got a little tipsy at the bar so wanted to sober her up a little.

Walked in, three workers there. Our hostess, Charlotte, was in her 70's, obviously a life long smoker. The night manager cook was a bald guy in his 50's. Victoria was the waitress / cook, bout the same age as the cook. They were slammed. Waited a long while for food. People would walk in and wait for a while then leave. Charlotte told us she gets off work at 2, but then has to be back at 6:30am as she agreed to an extra shift. Damn.

The other patrons were the best part. Lotsa piercings and tats. All shapes, sizes, and colors. Did have a large group of well-dressed young folks that looked like they all just came from church.

Heather had the Classic and I had the All Star with grits and the waffle ($11). Was fun.

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They want to be paid more than beginning 4 year BS degreed medical technologist, RNs, and rad techs.

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That must explain why there's a nurse unionization effort underway at several Louisiana hospitals.

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Private citizens leveraging their labor for better working conditions from their private employer is doing a communism

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You sure they ain't doing a wokism?

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Looking at pay rates I’d say they are underpaid. But 25 is too high, most make between 10-15/hr

I’d say 15-20 range is reasonable

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If they get offered 20 and don't take it that's a mistake for sure.

I’m saying that restaurants are built on a formula of costs in order to have a menu that people will buy.

X% wages of employees (cooks, waitresses, etc)
Y% for food costs
Z% for building costs (utilities, rent, taxes, etc)

If one of those inputs goes way up, it threatens the prices on the menu. If the prices go up too much, people stop buying and they shut down.


Should wages be artificially depressed for sales? No. But artificially increasing them sure as frick will drive down sales, especially since inflation is already driving up the costs of food like eggs and beef.