Anonymous
Post 06/16/2025 16:33     Subject: $8 for a fountain soda?
Anonymous wrote:What is the profit margin on an $8 fountain drink? Even if rent is high, the cost of everything baked in can’t be more than what, fifty cents???


Some things they make a huge profit, some things they take a huge loss. Drinks and salads make them big profits. A/C and free bread are huge losses. It has to balance out, and the restaurant business operates on a very thin margin.
Don't get look at their property taxes, business taxes, fees, licenses, bribery, extortion, etc. they have to pay.
Anonymous
Post 06/16/2025 11:29     Subject: $8 for a fountain soda?
What is the profit margin on an $8 fountain drink? Even if rent is high, the cost of everything baked in can’t be more than what, fifty cents???
Anonymous
Post 06/13/2025 21:33     Subject: $8 for a fountain soda?
It should be more. How much would it have to be for you to stop drinking it?
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2025 16:40     Subject: $8 for a fountain soda?
Anonymous wrote:Drinks have been overpriced for decades. Yawn.


Yup. I remember in the 1980s skipping the 79 cent coke for water. The 2 piece fish and chips with a side was $1.99 and they wanted 79 cents for a 12 ounce paper cup of soda with ice.

40% the cost of the meal.

That would be like $7-10 sodas today. Hmmmmmmmmm

Anonymous
Post 06/11/2025 16:38     Subject: $8 for a fountain soda?
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Anonymous wrote:Is it wrong for me to be outraged that City Perch in Pike and Rose charged $7.95 for a Diet Coke? A fountain one, by the way - it’s not like they weren’t importing Mexican coke in bottles or anything. When I got home, I looked online to see if it shows up on the menu, and it doesn’t. Is this the new going rate?



It’s outrageous and get ready for all the restaurants to charge that much. With minimum wage going up to $17 an hour $8 for a soda will become more and more common.



Hopefully you're just unfortunately misinformed instead of willfully spreading debunked right wing anti-labor talking points, but this is simply not true. Restaurants may very well raise their prices after minimum wages are hiked, but if they do it's entirely out of greed and capitalizing off misinformation like your post, not necessity.

In Denmark, McDonald's workers earn an average of $22 an hour, and their food costs less than the US: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mcdonalds-workers-denmark/

Here's a peer reviewed study that shows Seattle raising the minimum wage had no effect on grocery store food prices: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6579531/

Here's another peer-reviewed study that shows on average a 33% increase in the minimum wage only leads to a 3% rise in fast-food prices: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272243506_Does_the_Minimum_Wage_Bite_into_Fast-Food_Prices

Hopefully now that you know the reality of the situation you'll support labor's push for a livable wage in your community


Are you new to the USA? This country is full of greed.


Wait until you venture out of the USA and see what the rest of the world is like.
Anonymous
Post 06/11/2025 16:37     Subject: $8 for a fountain soda?
Anonymous wrote:Trump and the Republicans have increased the cost of everything.


Trump has gone back in time and started inflation in 2006 huh? Miraculous.