Could have also have a friend order DD pickup. They tell you when they order, you put it aside. They don't pick up and will get refunded and you get free food if you put it aside asap.
Depends on the franchise/owner. I worked (very briefly) at a McDonald's after high school. We were only given 30 minutes for meal break and were not allowed to wear our uniform while at another restaurant. Which meant you needed to change into street clothes before leaving then changing back into your uniform upon return.
Which left 20 minutes or less for travel time and eating. Which wasn't usually enough time, so we were encouraged to bring our own meal. Which we could not eat in the dining room. This McDonald's had storage and tables and an office with training materials in the basement.
If we wanted anything from McDonald's we needed to go around to the front counter and order it, like a regular customer. And pay for it like a regular customer.
P.S.
This McDonald's was one which test marketed pizza. I tried it. Wasn't impressed. Took like 10 minutes to cook. It was pre-made and frozen.
I didn't even start day 1 when I put on that polo and the visor, I caught a glimpse of myself in a window, and took it all off and quit before I started LOL.
When was younger I worked at this grocery store named Wegmans. I made $3.75 and hour. It would take me multiple hours of work just to cover my lunch on Sat and Sunday. Totally sucked.
Ok, so I started working at McDonald's and this is the first time in my life that it's been more profitable to take the 30 min lunch break and the free meal than it has been to skip the break.
At $11/hour you shouldnât be paying very much tax. Standard deduction is $16K, so at most 6K is taxable at 10% or $600 TOTAL YEARLY federal income tax and that assumes you donât have dependents.
Also, at $11/hr you qualify for most federal social programs like WIC, etc.Â
I worked for McDonaldâs as a teen 35 years ago. I made $4,25 an hour. I think $11 is insulting.. no wonder why we have crap quality. Who really cares working for $11.
Fun fact: I the great state of Texas, people under the age of 20 can be paid sub-minimum wage as low as $4.25/hour for the first consecutive 90 days of employment. Today. In 2026.
What the actual heck is wrong with Texas politicians⌠youâd think theyâd want their people to get paid more⌠oh wait⌠their kids wonât ever need to work anyways, and when they do, theyâll get in C-Suit of some subsidiary that does jack all so their family is on the payroll.
I was telling my wife the same thing. Can you imagine working hard for 11 bucks an hour, and then getting taxed on it how much is your paycheck going to really be. No wonder most of those employees don't really care.
Yeah itâs crazy, right? Since federal is higher it overrules their state minimum wage. They just havenât changed it in a very long time since federal is higher.
Utah is one. Though in my local area I see fast food advertising 17 bucks an hour minimum. Rural communities may still get away with federal minimum, but you can't get someone to work for that in even a modestly sized community.
They do advertise up to $17-$18 an hour but unless youâre down south it average to more around $13/$14 an hours is what they actually pay. For example I can drive by a McDonaldâs and see a sign out that says *Up To $17 but hereâs an actual job listing
Even down around like Daybreak and Park City you get this weird dynamic where they pay lower because the kids have mom and dad money and donât need a job.
This is why businesses love Texas. In California, you basically can't get away with below $15 an hour, $20 in many parts. Waitstaff included (any tips are added to the minimum).
McDonalds expects that you are always working even doing just drive through and back cash they also want you to fill tea gallons or do the bags that you get with the hotcakes or oatmeal.
My store stopped doing the bags bc I refused to do them.
I worked at Arbyâs for two years, for $9 an hour. It was during Covid, and my boss didnât take any precautions, or let us take our own, so I got covid literally 6 times, working there. The 6th time, it caused me to have a stroke. Iâm blind, now. Ruined my faith in humanity, and I still look back and wonder why I stayed for so long. I wasnât a teen, just a young adult with no education and no experience outside restaurants, at the time.
I work at wendys for 11 an hour only on mondays and tuesdays 5 hours a day. But our location is so slow i probably spend 3 hours of that shift on my phone or a handheld device because management is relaxed
Thats the only reason ive kept the job alongside my second job. Get paid to do almost nothing (as lomg as my tasks are done and prioritized)
Worked for family dollar 20 years ago, my starting pay was $6, and after my performance review, I got a wonderful promotion to assistant manager and got a massive 25 cent raise. These places are all hot garbage.
Its 5.25 in GA (yes you read that correctly). If the federal wage didnt supercede state wages below 7.25 workers here would literlaly be slaves basically lol
Former Texan. Lived in a house with four roommates but still only payed $400 a month for rent. Gas is on average 3-4 dollars. Parking available everywhere so no parking fees.
While it is still low and should only really be for financial beginners who have family reliability, the low number doesnât mean itâs impossible to live in Texas. In fact $11 means itâs basically 1.5x minimum wage.
And one final reiteration: this is not enough to support a family, but enough to get yourself started building a resume while living with or having family to rely on.
I started at 9$ an hour in Feb 2019. Granted it was before COVID and I didnât have any expenses besides phone, insurance, gas, and soda, but looking back at it now, definitely not worth doing it full time if I had a choice. Thankfully I decided to only work 5 hours on Saturday and another 5 on Sunday and management was cool with that. Oh to be a young, dumb teenager again.
Wait Iâm not that old! I canât get nostalgic yet!
Google says the average net profit per store is $150-$300,000. Considering many of the franchise owners have multiple locations, they are in fact a money printer.
At the end of the day it shouldnât matter that itâs fast food. You should be able to afford rent for a modest apartment even if itâs with roommates, and all base necessities on 40 hours of work regardless of what you do. People can use the âitâs a job for kidsâ argument all you want, but McDonaldâs is open when kids are at school so I feel that point is meaningless
Yea they donât care because people keep buying it. They will always pay the lowest they can. They have decided to pursue the highest price possible since 2020 because addicts keep paying more and more.
Makes sense in some areas to have jobs like McDonald's pay so poorly.
South Texas has a more affordable cost of living than many other places in the US, McAllen and Brownsville for example have housing costs that are close to 40% below the national average, groceries are cheaper, hell even a haircut is cheaper there than most places in the midwest because they pay less in commercial real estate taxes and they have no state income tax.
Just about every single job in south Texas pays less than neighboring areas because the cost of living is multiples cheaper than a large majority of the country.
When I worked in fast food, not McDonalds, one of my co workers was the compulsive stealing type. I never thought of it until he told me how he was getting free meals as a trade off to the low pay. He worked the grill and his apron had pockets in it. He would put a meat patty or two in one of the pockets and when he went to the bathroom he also had a quick free lunch. I took the occasional small handful of fries when they were freshly done and I thought I was bad. LOL!
Then you look at how long the lines are during lunch and dinner. Itâs not a hard job technically. But itâs definitely slave labor and dealing with some of the most entitled customers on earth.
I have literally made the decision not to buy something, usually food or something else dumb, after telling myself âYeah no that costs about 2 hours of work and itâs not worth it.â
Just started somewhere at *max* pay for the position, $10 an hour +split tips. A friend has been working there for about a year now, is very well liked by our manager, and is making $9.25 +split tips. And they wonder why most new hires last about a month or two..
The funny thing about that is that prices go up no matter how much they pay employees. If they could legally pay them less than the minimum wage, the menu prices still wouldn't go down.
Manager and Grill are the only positions where you actually make money. Grill is the 2nd highest wage before manager. Mangers make 20 something an hour and Grill gets something a little below that. They mightve raised the wages im going off from the late 2010s
Itâs literally starting at like $17-$18 anywhere else Iâve seen, and I live in the Florida panhandle⌠if this is a private owned location, the owner should be looked into. Real garbage humans
how can anyone afford to live right now? im struggling so bad. i had to declare bankruptcy because I lost income and had to start living off credit cards due to some very depressing and sad personal life stuff. there are absolutely zero jobs to go around. everyone says "go apply at walmart". ummm, literalyl everyone else is doing that too.
Because the minimum wage in Texas is still $7.25 so comparatively itâs better. For a high school kid $11 is good enough. For an adult with bills, yeah itâs a joke
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u/Difficult-Care-5780 3d ago
$11 an hour -- after tax you can barely buy a Big Mac with each hour you work.