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In reply to the discussion: Fast food joint pays workers $12 an hour, and lives to tell the tale [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)So that when we got to other places, we pay the price for a burger but throw out additional "fast food employee bucks" that we pay for in to a fund for, and that employees of these firms can take back (perhaps we right down the place and time on the buck when we give it to them) so that they can cash it in for money for themselves later. That way we as consumers can make sure that employees are paid more of the money we pay for food at these places. Perhaps the totals for how much of these are given to employees of each of these establishments can get published, so that we can embarrass the owners of these establishments that they are paying too little.
Perhaps for a place like this that pays its people decently, we'd have some way for these new currency bucks to be paid to the business itself, as a way of rewarding them for paying their people reasonably.