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Most of us who worked those kinds of jobs competently - certainly all the ones I ever held - come to a certain point where you can make a middle class living by sticking with them & becoming a lifer. The question is, do you want to?
You're again implying that these are placeholder or second-rate jobs, and for many - especially up to the junior management level - I'm sure they are.
But maybe you don't make a good retail or fast-food manager without it being something of your preference. Many people like hard, challenging work and don't much care about its status or cachet; being yet another office manager or software developer might bore them to tears.
You're again implying that these are placeholder or second-rate jobs, and for many - especially up to the junior management level - I'm sure they are.
But maybe you don't make a good retail or fast-food manager without it being something of your preference. Many people like hard, challenging work and don't much care about its status or cachet; being yet another office manager or software developer might bore them to tears.
There were certain advantages, challenges, and rewards, to be sure. Some people I worked with did get excited about the business of retail or food service & are still in it.
Personally I hated it. I was not the kind of person who could easily let negative interactions with customers roll off my back. It would ruin my whole day & cause me to lose sleep that night whenever it happened.
Average in n out brings in $4.6 million in revenue that salary is less than 3% total store revenue. That's double the revenue of the average McDonald's. Both were started in California of course showing the greatness of California started companies.
The averages are a bit skewed comparing In and Out to national chains. The vast majority of In and Outs are in very high COL areas. Every podunk town in the country has a Taco Bell, McDs and Wendys where the cost of living is drastically less. Regardless, good for them for paying their people a reasonable wage. Working 60+ hours a week, managing dozens of people and helping make the corporation a few million $ a year deserves reasonable compensation. They are obviously making money and retaining good people from what I can tell. I enjoy getting a burger there when I am in CA or AZ for work and they are always clean, well run and consistent.
Fast food is unappealing to me. I live in a small town with some great little mom&pop restaurants. Most of them struggle to keep the doors open.
The masses here complain there are no good restaurants yet the lines to McDonald's, Taco Bell, Starbucks are always long.
Do they even KNOW what a good restaurant looks like?
ETA: I agree with those who say fast food managers earn their pay. I'd be willing to bet many of them do have business degrees.
And here's the kicker: food at a diner is only about 20% more expensive and that's with leaving a tip. You'll likely get a just as large if not larger portion, better nutrition, and infinitely better quality.
A "meal" at most fast food places is between $6-9, not exactly cheap, which is mind-boggling considering that most of their patrons are poor. Do they not know how to cook? Middle class and better people do not purchase fast food often (if at all), and we're healthier and wealthier for it. Food cooked at home is always cheapest.
I'll admit that I sneak in a couple sandwiches at Chick-Fil-A about once a month, one on the fly, and one to save for later, but I always consider the number of minutes that I end up working to pay for those sandwiches and obviously a loaf of bread + some fixings is way, way cheaper.
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I came to believe that In-N-Outs came from the factory with a line of 20 cars for the drive-up.
Never understood the rabid obsession with the chain. Decent burgers, a little pricey, but absolutely nothing special. I chalk it up to cult status, like Coors beer before it went national.
Me neither. I found their burgers mediocre at best. But Texans have high standards for beef and Mexican food. I don't think we even have In 'n' Out here. I ate it a few times out of state. As for the pay for the fast food managers, they work a crazy number of hours.
And here's the kicker: food at a diner is only about 20% more expensive and that's with leaving a tip. You'll likely get a just as large if not larger portion, better nutrition, and infinitely better quality.
A "meal" at most fast food places is between $6-9, not exactly cheap, which is mind-boggling considering that most of their patrons are poor. Do they not know how to cook? Middle class and better people do not purchase fast food often (if at all), and we're healthier and wealthier for it. Food cooked at home is always cheapest.
This is just ignorance. How is a burger at a diner better quality? My family and I eat fast food way more often than restaurant food and we are upper middle class. I wasn't always so though and I worked in fast food and in swanky joints. The reality is the food is the same "quality" healthwise. The fast food place had very strict health standards compared to the restaurants I was at. Its really just prepared and served in a much more fancy way in a restaurant, but when its first being prepared it looks the same. This is probably one of the few areas I agree with Trump on. I shake my head at people who only eat in restaurants because of some ignorant belief that fast food is inferior healthwise. But the main reason we don't bother with restaurants very often is we have better ways to spend an hour than sit in a noisy place waiting for someone to bring us food.
Me neither. I found their burgers mediocre at best. But Texans have high standards for beef and Mexican food. I don't think we even have In 'n' Out here. I ate it a few times out of state. As for the pay for the fast food managers, they work a crazy number of hours.
We don’t have one in Houston but there are a number of them in Texas. Mostly the DFW area
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Average in n out brings in $4.6 million in revenue that salary is less than 3% total store revenue. That's double the revenue of the average McDonald's. Both were started in California of course showing the greatness of California started companies.
And yet chick fil a, a company not started in California blows them all away with sales per store exceeding everyone else including McDonald’s and is only open 6 days a week instead of 7. In an out had 575 million in sales. Not sure why you had to throw the “California is great” comment.
The top three fast food franchises for yearly U.S. sales, according to the 2018 QSR Magazine Report, which breaks down sales numbers from the previous year, were McDonald’s, Starbucks and Subway. Here’s how the numbers shook out:
McDonald’s -- 14,036 units, $37,480,670,000 in sales, or $2,670,320 in sales per unit.
Starbucks -- 13,930 units, $13,167,610,000 in sales, or $945,270 in sales per unit.
Subway -- 25,908 units, $10,800,000,000 in sales, or $416,860 in sales per unit.
Now, if you were starting your own business, you’d be pretty happy with any of those numbers. The worst of them, Subway, is reeling in nearly $11 billion in sales each year.
The averages are a bit skewed comparing In and Out to national chains. The vast majority of In and Outs are in very high COL areas. Every podunk town in the country has a Taco Bell, McDs and Wendys where the cost of living is drastically less. Regardless, good for them for paying their people a reasonable wage. Working 60+ hours a week, managing dozens of people and helping make the corporation a few million $ a year deserves reasonable compensation. They are obviously making money and retaining good people from what I can tell. I enjoy getting a burger there when I am in CA or AZ for work and they are always clean, well run and consistent.
exactly. I live in Los Angeles area and make around that amount. If you have a family then 113k is not going to be enough to own a house, probably not enough to own a condo in a area with good schools and not enough have anything left over to save towards retirement. If you are young and single it could be a decent salary but for others it's barely middle class. I'm sure In N Out managers in AZ/NV are making closer to that base of $83k. I will say that In N Out and Chick Fil A have the best and seemingly happiest crews I've ever seen in a fast food restaurant so managing one of those probably isn't nearly as stressful as managing a McDonalds or Taco Bell.
Chick Fil A is really the best deal. You can become a franchise operator for $10k investment and the operators in big markets like LA can make over $1 million/year. But getting a franchise is very competitive and nearly impossible.
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