Fast Food Microeconomics

For example, the chief lobbyist, Bill Signer, told the Houston Chronicle “there was nothing wrong with the use of federal subsidies to create low-paying, low-skilled, short-term jobs for the poor” (qtd Schlosser 72). Government subsidies are offered to fast food restaurants that use workers for only four hundred hours and receive more if the worker quit or replaced (Schlosser 72). The average fast food employees work an average thirty hours a week. Fast food companies hire thousands of crew members every year, but the turnover rates are high. Workers are not given benefits and cannot afford healthcare of their monthly salary. The only incentive they receive is a free lunch. Fast food company are aware and unashamed to offer low wages that even
they could not live on. They are purposely creating these low paying jobs and have the backing of the government. The fast food industry also enlisted the help of store managers to pull their agenda.