The average fast food worker is about 30 years old, female and, as with low-wage work in general, likely to be a person of color. In 2011, 28 percent of working black women and over 31 percent of ...
California's experiment with a $20 hourly floor for fast-food workers was sold as a simple fix for poverty wages, but the ...
When people get more conservative with spending, it hurts restaurants that lack a true following. Some people love chains such as Chipotle, Chick-fil-A, Starbucks, and even McDonald’s. They view ...
In 2023, California adopted a law that raised the minimum wage to $20 per hour. It also created a Fast Food Council with the power to further increase wages by dictate every year. Twenty bucks an hour ...
Edgar Recinos no longer has to choose between paying rent and buying groceries. As a cook at a Wingstop restaurant in Los Angeles, Recinos got a significant wage bump last year — one of half a million ...
Decades before McDonald's, there was White Castle. Historians credit the hamburger chain with creating the modern fast-food industry as we know it. The legend goes that White Castle founder Walter ...