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This isn't so straightforward. I would argue that they have some effect on the customers as well.

In the US, fast food restaurants are remarkably cheap, which is probably caused by low wages as well. If the workers were paid Danish or Swiss wages, quite a non-trivial part of the US population would be no longer able to afford a visit.

Now there is a wider question if that wouldn't actually improve their health, but that is already a bridge too far from the conversation. Miserly wages of restaurant workers do make the restaurants themselves more affordable to the general public, and the customers seem to be content about it.



The Netherlands has a lower minimum wage for people under 21. This is why you see a lot of teenagers working at McD.

A big Mac is still 5 eurodollars.




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