I dont buy his argument that the food is the main driver in the cost of a burger either, when i worked at mcdicks, our coach told us the cost of a burger at the time was about 20-30 cents, ironically the most expensive part of the burger was not the beef, it was the slice of cheese. Say a Bigmac costs double that cause its basically two burgers, and say inflation has doubled that price in 17 years. They still sell a big mac for 3-5$ So if they can make it for a buck they are selling it at 3-5 times the cost to make.
Also the burger is not really their high margin stuff, they make a much higher percentage on fries and soft drinks, which cost them almost nothing to make.
If you were to take an average McDonalds and say they are open 24 hours per day, thats 24 hours per day at 8 bucks an hour a person working is about 192 per 24 hour shift, with an average of atleast ten people working per hour, thats about 67000, the lease on the building would probably be roughly the same. So 130k just for those 2.
I highly doubt that a single McDonalds pays more than 130k for food costs per month. At 130k per month on food if most of that went to burgers, then that would be 4000 burgers per day thats like 3 burgers a minute all day every day. I worked at McDicks its not even close, infact our goal was to be able to make a burger in under 20 seconds during peak hours. With way more than 10 people on a shift.
