Most colleges finish mid-to-late December and break for Christmas and for the first week of January, then the Spring semester starts in the second week of January (for my college kids, on Jan 9, 2024 this year).
This is increasingly true. Smart college kids have pretty much stopped taking those kinds of jobs. Instead, as you say, they take an internship. There are numerous benefits to internships:
They are in, or close to, a field the student is studying and will/may want to work in upon graduation.
Internships can even be had in the first year in some cases.
Some colleges, especially “honors” colleges require internships.
Internships, in most fields, pay better than fast food temp jobs.
And they have more regular hours.
They give much more useful experience, and even if not true experience, they allow you to have better resume entries.
One of my kids has a friend that interned at Google a few years ago. They paid an insanely high salary for an intern, and then they hired them immediately after graduation to a full-time job (also at a very high salary).
High school kids, on the other hand, still take fast food jobs (one of my kids who is still in high school works at a local pizza shop on weekends and holidays and during the summer break).
One of the most important: contacts in an actual business allied to your future employment. A great portion of my success was in “who you know” as opposed to “what you know.” Tell kids on internships to make friends, or at the very least get to know as many people as possible, including other interns (who will age up along with you) but also people in the business, and even in unallied portions of the business. (Knowing a guy in the finance department, even if that’s not your thing, may lead to hearing about an opening before it’s actually open.)
This is what helped me the most over my working years. Only had to interview for my first real job at 18 (Delivered newspapers during high school) after that just had to call people (Or just put the word out I was looking) I know though 1st job and had a different job.
Still working nicely now that I’m self-employed. My network is always feeding me more work than I can handle.
First, it was a rest stop. Those prices are higher.
Then this
Why is McDonald’s so expensive in Connecticut?
According to the company’s website, McDonald’s allows its franchises to set their own prices on menu items. Fairfield County’s coastal town of Darien, which has a median income of $250,000, is the wealthiest town in the state, according to PropertyClub.Jul 20, 2023
The headline fails to note that these prices are at a McDonald’s on a tollway where the franchisee pays a usurious rent to the state for exclusive access. The issue here isn’t “minimum wage”, it’s the state profiteering from restricting competition in roadway services.
Gas prices are always higher at thruway toll roads. A bag of chips always costs more at a “convenience” stop on a toll road. Big surprise, so does a BigMac.
I wonder when the Right will ever bother to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. I’d guess it will be a very long time, if ever.
PS: If you exit the toll road and go about a mile down the road, the same meal costs $11.29
I thought it was pretty common knowledge that the contracts to have location in certain “restricted” areas (toll roads, airports, even shopping malls) were much higher than freely available rents elsewhere. That’s why the price for a Coke is higher at the airport gate than in the vending machine at the gas station, etc.
But here’s a chart showing how prices are substantially higher in some of those restricted lease locations: (This one happens to be New Jersey, but it’s the same everywhere.)
I posted recently about a gas station in metro Detroit being investigated for price gouging. That station is the last one, at the approach to the airport, where people can top up the tank of their rental car, before turning it in. That station always charges at least a Dollar more than any other station, to give people a skinning, before they leave town.
All hail free enterprise!, except when the “reporter” has a personal axe to grind.
To be fair, you are also stating here that The State, using its power, is causing the price to go up. That’s pretty similar to the claim of “the right” when it comes to minimum wages and other types of State interference in commerce/business.
I have no argument with this; yes restricted locations usually are more expensive. I was questioning your use of the word “usurious” which is really defined as ‘illegal or exorbitant rates of interest on loans’. In these highway rest-stops I suspect that most of the states put the locations out to bid and take the businesses that are willing to pay the most! Makes perfect sense and I wouldn’t want it any other way.
It’s not really the state using its power here. It’s basic supply and demand. Supply (in this case, the supply of restaurant options) is limited due to the location on a toll road. Consumers can’t access other options without the inconvenience of leaving the toll road. The restaurant can get higher prices because of the location. Because of that, the landlord can also command a higher rent from the restaurant for the premium location. Both of these work together to raise prices to the consumer at that location.
The real issue in this example is not higher wages, as is clearly suggested in the headline. It is basically telling a lie by omitting pertinent facts.
And if you haven’t noticed, telling lies to manipulate emotions is a widespread problem in society today.
This is like having the price of cigarettes, meth, or heroin increasing. There may be some temporary job losses I suppose, but overall I think society will be better off if the fast food business model, as well as cigarettes, meth, and heroin, becomes unaffordable.
In any case, this story is probably only for the really gullible. I’ve been to many decent restaurants that are above the minimum wage scale and don’t recall seeing too many burgers priced at $18. A quick Google run shows that the Outback Steakhouse burger for example is $14.99 in Burbank and the half-pound Longhorn Steakhouse Burger in Cherry Hill, New Jersey is $9.99. https://www.longhornsteakhouse.com/menu/half-pound-steakhouse-cheeseburger-combo/prod6380009
No. The price was for a Big Mac Meal, as reflected in the header and the body of the article. Includes medium fries and a medium drink.
That said, it’s certainly a high price. I just looked up the price of a Big Mac Meal at the McDonald’s closest to me (in Miami), and it’s listed at $9.29; picking a random McDonald’s in Greenwich, Connecticut has a price of $9.89. So that’s clearly an outlier.
Unfortunately for health advocates, it appears that the increase in the minimum wage wasn’t all that harmful to McDonalds. This thread seems to be much ado about very little. Turns out McDonalds could afford to pay their workers a bit more.
McDonald’s on Monday reported that its revenue was up 14% in the latest quarter — a surge the burger giant said was driven by “strategic menu price increases.”
The Golden Arches brought in a total of $6.69 billion in revenue for the three-month period ended Sept. 30 — beating expectations of $6.58 billion, according to Refinitiv analysts.
The very existence of the toll road is due to the power of The State. And the methodology of tolling is determined by The State. On the FL Turnpike, you can exit and enter with no penalty (or no meaningful penalty). And sure enough, prices at the numerous rest stops are more reasonable than in most other places with rest stops on toll roads. Even gasoline isn’t particularly expensive at the Shell stations at the rest stops compared to most other typical gasoline stations.
I don’t think the State should work to raise prices to the consumer.
I think we’re getting off track here. The issue isn’t the toll road. It is the convenience of the location. It could just as easily be a restaurant inside an airport terminal or right next door to a big entertainment venue. (The McDonalds right across the street from the Disneyland entrance charges premium prices, too.)
But even that is off the main topic of my reply, which was that the entire premise of the article Dr Bob posted is a lie. The high prices at that particular location have nothing to do with minimum wages, as evidenced by much lower prices at other McDonalds a few miles away who are subject to the same minimum wage laws.
MCD franchisee just taking advantage. Has little to do with his costs. He bought the location to gouge the public. They are a captive audience.
Love all the excuse making but no. Yes costs are higher in that location but no. Gouging is done purposely.
Minimum wage in CT is the same across the state. Only that MCD has those prices. Yahoo is like a lame horse blaming the person who has to muck the stables.
You may have noticed that new $5 fee on Doordash and Uber Eats orders, but it is not just causing frustrated customers to delete their apps, as we reported. We are now learning the people the ordinance was designed to help are hurting. What used to be considered “hotspots” for workers on those apps, feel a little colder since Jan. 13, according to several drivers we heard from…
“Assuming that you are working constantly, then yes, you’re going to be making that much money. But that’s not what’s happening right now. Because people are not ordering as much anymore. The tips are going down because they think we’re making all this money.”
One driver shared how much he made on this week last year: $931. But this week, he only made $464.81.
…I checked my Uber Eats app on Friday to see how much more customers will now pay.
In September I was charged $44.90 for a gyro delivery, and an additional $8.47in service and delivery fees, before tip and tax.
The same order today is also $44.90 for the food — which, by the way, is about 20% more than what the restaurant charges in-store — but now has $18.27in fees. That’s more than double from September.
Before the plague, the “independent” delivery drivers were not much of a thing. They went mainstream during the plague. They would probably be replacing store employees anyway.
And I have commented on how my AT&T bill has escalated nearly 20% in a year. The automakers are increasing their ATP and GP at a rapid rate. As long as anyone keeps paying the escalating prices, the “JCs” will continue to escalate prices.