Actually the average CEO is paid 380 times more then the average employee not the lowest...that includes all the overpaid upper management golf buddies making the real gap much larger in reality.

For all the hate here I feel we're missing the point. Fast food workers are living under the poverty level and them attempting to elevate their wages is not a reason to hate.

The min wage in 1968 was 11 dollars adjusted for inflation asking for 15 is not unreasonable. McD's alone made 1.5 billion in profits last year yet we as tax payers subsidized their business to about 1.2 billion in benefits paid to their workers because they are too poor to afford basic costs of living.

McD's is basically making its shareholders rich by directly taking tax money to subsidize their sub standard pay model, quite a few parallels to our own industry problems if you ask me