We're in 2024 with inflation taking all of our paychecks. What I don't understand is McDonald's and most of the industry stuck in the old school ways. Slap a shirt on a warm body, pay them minimum wage and grind them to death and who cares about high turn over rate, who cares about not having a great team/awarding good employees to keep a cohesive team, who cares about employee retention, the list goes on. But you have newer faster growing fast food chains like Raising Cain and Chik Fil A among others that fully support higher wages, rewarding good employees, keeping good people, making a team that works. Raising Cain is pretty blunt on their website about the wages and raises they pay almost to the point of thumbing their noses at the rest of the industry. I would hope it's only a matter of time before the newer model proves the old model as outdated and ineffective.

Edit; Hell even the local gas stations around here pay more just to operate a register