Should Fast Food Workers Be Paid?

Sixty percent of all fast food workers are under the age of twenty-four, and they want more money. Fast food workers want their pay per hour to be increased from minimum wage to fifteen dollars. That is a big increase considering that waiters and waitresses at medium scale restaurants make within three dollars fifty cents, and seven dollars and fifty cents, not including tips. Fast food workers should not be paid extra because if their wages increased, the food would be more costly and they would replace humans with machines.

To begin, if fast food workers were paid fifteen dollars an hour, it would make the fast food a lot more expensive. Fast food is most certainly not marvelous quality, and it is not right to be paying a lot of money for a standard hamburger. For instance, according to Newsela article, “Most fast food customers want a quick, cheap meal. They will not pay top prices for a burger and fries.” (Newsela con article) In other words, fast food customers do not like soaring prices. This demonstrates that fast food restaurants would lose business if they raised their prices. Also, people with less money go there because it is the only thing they can
There would be many problems but the main one would be having robots work the jobs of humans. According to Newsela article, “The technology is ready. Customers could use self serve iPad stations to enter their orders. There’s a robotic burger flipper that makes up to 400 hamburgers an hour. Restaurants could install one to replace several workers at once.” This means that they are thinking about replacing humans with robots. This indicates that there will be even less jobs. Restaurants might have to have costly machines if they are paying a wage of fifteen dollars an hour. Thus it would not be beneficial to pay fifteen dollars because they would substitute some people with