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Originally Posted by CarlosTheGaucho
That's what I'm talking about - from the franchise owner's perspective, you pay your burger flipper $ 2.50 per hour yet you sell more pricey sandwiches at about $4 - $5 a piece or a menu for $ 7.
So you get an idea about the profit margins, it's no surprise many prime locations in the city centers are usually rented by McDonald's franchise owners.
Now the paradox is that this is pretty much an equivalent of price that you would you pay in a real restaurant or bistro for real food (that's really cheap), yet it obviously doesn't prevent locals from spending money on overpriced junk food.
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I think the burger flippers are paid a little bit more than $2.50 an hour....
When I worked in fast food they had everything broken down by price and profit. It was amazing really. The broke down the price of every ingredient, cost of the amount of time to prepare the item, and then factored in costs of power for the grill, bun toaster, etc.
The most profitable item was soda. It cost them nothing to produce and serve, and was pretty much pure profit.