Arby’s Says It Helped Kill the $15 Minimum Wage

 The parent company of some of America’s largest fast-food chains is claiming credit for convincing Congress to kill a $15 minimum wage from the recent COVID relief bill then boasting about it on internal documents.

"Inspire Brands — which owns Jimmy John’s, Arby’s, Sonic, and Buffalo Wild Wings, plus recently acquired Dunkin’ Donuts for $11.3 billion in November — on Thursday sent employees and franchisees a review of its government lobbying activity that highlighted its success in keeping the $15 minimum wage out of Democrats’ American Rescue Plan, the COVID-19 relief bill President Joe Biden signed earlier this month.

“We were successful in our advocacy efforts to remove the Raise the Wage Act, which would have increased the federal minimum wage to $15 and eliminated the tip credit,” reads the report."

I really don't understand the logic from this industry and these brands in particular.

It kinda makes sense for manufacturing and US Businesses that compete internationally. Raising US wages increases the advantage of those already setup with foreign plants run on cheap international labor.

But these are food brands, selling food made locally to local customers. Their biggest competition is local restaurants that compete for the same minimum wage employees.

By raising the minimum wage, they raise it for their competitors too. Then it becomes a competition of marketing, supply chains, and financial management, which should allow them to crush every mediocre local joint within months.

By fighting the minimum wage, it only ensures their labor force is sick and comprised exclusively of people who couldn't find a job working anywhere else. It leaves them weak to compete against the local guys who can hire the good labor these brands trained in the industry very affordably.

So essentially, these execs are bragging about how many times they've shot themselves in the foot this year with perfect aim.

https://jacobinmag.com/2021/03/fast-food-chains-block-15-minimum-wage-relief-dunkin-arbys-sonic

I will continue to NOT support these places.

I will continue to NOT eat the diarrhea inducing reconstituted beef-slurry/spam-slop that Arby's calls roast beef (it's a spam-like, gooey, slimy, jelly in a bag before it's baked into a solid and sliced onto your sandwich. They do this to make dollars off the pennies worth of "meat" they sell you, fyi).

I will continue to NOT support the owner of a sandwich shop who's menu of a dozen different sandwiches, all of which taste like mayo (and only mayo), so he can go big game hunt in Africa and trophy-kill all those dangerous giraffes. He can't pay his employees, but he can afford to kill lions and elephants on the regular. Stop funding this douchebags asshole-safaris.

I will continue to NOT support the third-rate corporate coffee chain, their glorified gas-station coffee, and the shit-toast they call food. If America runs on Dunkin, it's employees sure as shit DON'T run on the crap pay they receive.

America: Put down the fork and the frappe and boycott these cheap sacks of shit. The workers of the service industry need our help.