Most of California's fast food workers are set to be paid at least $20 per hour. A new law mandating the minimum wage increase for fast food workers is scheduled to take effect on Monday.
I just don’t think business hire more people than they require regardless of the wages. If they could make do with one less person, they already would have.
In the US, restaurants absolutely do hire more people than they require. Employees are paid on tips. Add as many $2.13/hr servers as you can. Hire hire hire. Never stop hiring. You’ll be sloughing off people constantly because they aren’t making enough money, so you have to keep hiring ever more aggressively to feed the beast. But you’ll have 5 people to run every plate of food, bus every table, all that stuff.
Of course, one really competent server is as good as 5 of the ones being churned, but it’s too hard to get and hold onto one competent server, so better 5 incompetent ones.
This is why the only way to judge how well-managed your favorite bar/restaurant is to look at their (non-family) staff turnover. If the same cadre works there for multiple years, you know it’s top-notch. If there’s a new cast every few months, you know its management is a shit parade.
I just don’t think business hire more people than they require regardless of the wages. If they could make do with one less person, they already would have.
In the US, restaurants absolutely do hire more people than they require. Employees are paid on tips. Add as many $2.13/hr servers as you can. Hire hire hire. Never stop hiring. You’ll be sloughing off people constantly because they aren’t making enough money, so you have to keep hiring ever more aggressively to feed the beast. But you’ll have 5 people to run every plate of food, bus every table, all that stuff.
Of course, one really competent server is as good as 5 of the ones being churned, but it’s too hard to get and hold onto one competent server, so better 5 incompetent ones.
This is why the only way to judge how well-managed your favorite bar/restaurant is to look at their (non-family) staff turnover. If the same cadre works there for multiple years, you know it’s top-notch. If there’s a new cast every few months, you know its management is a shit parade.
This law doesn’t apply to any of the restaurants you describe. No table service.
Companies absolutely do try to staff fast food as short as possible. If they didn’t, you’d never experience a line.