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"Trained employees are quitting because they find they have to work like Westerners and get paid like East Europeans." That says it all. You always get what y
by nick2 13y ago
"Trained employees are quitting because they find they have to work like Westerners and get paid like East Europeans." That says it all. You always get what you pay for.
- dasil003 13y agoAlso, I bet the food prices aren't correspondingly low. I remember when McDonald's started expanding in Brazil a couple decades ago, prices were ridiculous (like $8-$9 equivalent for a big mac meal) but people still lined up around the block for the novelty and addictive quality of the food.
- emiliobumachar 13y agoBrazilian here. It's still about that expensive, and still very popular.
- tracius01 13y agothen you deserve your fate as a nation!
- VLM 13y agoThere's a chain restaurant in the USA advertising itself as genuine Brazilian cuisine. Looks like about $40/person or I believe thats about 100 Brazilian Real per person. I'm betting that a typical Brazilian Cuisine restaurant in Brazil charges much less than 100 Real per person. That would fit my guess that they're a specialty destination which can charge pretty much anything they want... for awhile, while the novelty lasts. (Edited to add, lazy me, I googled around and found an article online from 2012 claiming a single dude should expect to spend about R$350/month on food, so the local Brazilian restaurant in the USA is asking for more than a weeks worth of groceries equivalent, which would be pretty high end dining in my USA local experience)
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- laurentoget 13y agoSame in france. McD's is very popular even though for the price of a Big Mac you can get two delicious sandwiches from the corner boulangerie. Or at least that is how it was in the 90's.
- guard-of-terra 13y agoWhy do people do that? Quick is so much tastier. I fail to understand why many people choose a place to eat as if it was a first one in their life.
- T-hawk 13y agoPrices in the US are creeping up to that level too. A full meal of Big Mac, fries, and drink is over $7 at all but the most rural McDonald's locations now.
- dasil003 13y agoSure, but in 1993 I'm pretty sure a #1 meal was $2.99.
- dghughes 13y agoThen there is Alberta Canada I think Edmonton where fast food workers get paid $20/hour due to the oil boom in the area. But a small apartment rents for close to $2,000/month if you can find one.
- goodcanadian 13y agoI think you are thinking of Fort McMurray. There is such a labour shortage in the oilsands (and correspondingly high pay), that there is no one available to work fast food, build houses, or anything else really. Of course, I have also seen very similar results in resort towns for slightly different reasons: only the rich can afford to live there, so there is no poor to work the low paid jobs.
- dghughes 13y agoYou're right I have no idea why I wrote Edmonton. I know enough people that went there recently and in the early 1980s too during phase one of the oil boom.
- greenyoda 13y ago"Trained employees are quitting because they find they have to work like Westerners and get paid like East Europeans. ... You always get what you pay for." And I'd guess that employees are similarly averse to being exploited all over the world. For example, if you were hired as a developer in the U.S. at an average salary but your employer expected you to work twelve hours every day and answer support calls in the middle of the night, you'd quickly realize that you could find another job where you could get the same salary with less painful working conditions. And the constant departure of qualified employees should be a strong signal to management that they don't pay enough.