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>And I am certain that they either had to raise the wage or they wound up with someone totally incompetent (who had to be replaced after they realized that they needed to raise the wage). You get what you pay for. OTOH, you don't need a rocket scientist to serve up burgers at McDonalds.

I'll tell you something.....go into a Chick-Fil-A (or however it's spelled) and you can tell those kids have been trained.

Tuesday night is milk shake night in our house, so I go there every Tuesday night. The kids there are friendly, well spoken, and actually pay attention to what they do.

I'm not going to slam every fast food worker at other places - I'm sure you have good conscientious kids at other places - but the kids working at Chick-Fil-A are definitely several cuts above.

And getting slightly off the subject - I'm an atheist, have been one all my life. But I find myself defending commercial institutions that have strong roots in Judeo-Christian beliefs, because I find a strong correlation between that and good products/services/work ethic. So "God Bless" the concept of good old-fashioned values that sometimes tend to get overlooked.