A Starbucks worker reveals the average customer order costs more than she makes an hour, as the coffee giant focuses on more expensive, complicated drinks mmeisenzahl@businessinsider.com (Mary Meisenzahl)
Starbucks is relying on fewer customers who are spending more on their orders.
Workers told Insider that customizations with the expectation of fast food delivery is unsustainable.
Some workers say the company has not adjusted staffing needs appropriately to deal with the new volume.
With the US job market heating up, a shift supervisor at an Atlanta Starbucks told Insider she s leaving for a job with better pay and benefits. The final straw for leaving her job of two years, she said, was realizing how her pay compared to the increasingly pricey drinks Starbucks sells.
Workers told Insider that customizations with the expectation of fast food delivery is unsustainable.
Some workers say the company has not adjusted staffing needs appropriately to deal with the new volume.
With the US job market heating up, a shift supervisor at an Atlanta Starbucks told Insider she s leaving for a job with better pay and benefits. The final straw for leaving her job of two years, she said, was realizing how her pay compared to the increasingly pricey drinks Starbucks sells. The thing that really radicalized me was that our starting wage ($9) is less than one average customer s ticket, she told Insider.
Three out of five U.S. customers are interested in trying a premium chicken sandwich, according to recent survey from market researcher Datassential. That demand pushed U.S. sales at chicken-focused fast-food restaurants a category that includes Popeyes, KFC and Chick-fil-A to more than $32.2 billion in 2020, up 7.6% from a year earlier, according to market researcher Euromonitor International. U.S. sales at their burger-focused counterparts, on the other hand, dropped 2.9% to $113.8 billion in 2020.
By the time McDonald s rolled out its new offerings this year, the chicken sandwich war was well underway and the battlefield was crowded. Competitors like KFC, Burger King and even Taco Bell have launched crispy chicken items. They re all chasing Chick-fil-A, which is a growing competitive threat to McDonald s, and Popeyes, whose sandwich started the recent craze.
McDonald’s chicken sandwich
McDonald s new chicken sandwiches have sold well in their first two months on the menu, but they appear unlikely to overtake poultry leader Chick-fil-A.
The Chicago-based fast-food giant entered the chicken sandwich fray in late February, offering three takes on the new sandwiches: Crispy, Spicy and Deluxe, all served on a potato roll with various toppings. McDonald s franchisees had long asked for a sandwich that would compete with chicken stalwarts and tap the hottest menu trend in fast food.
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Three out of five U.S. customers are interested in trying a premium chicken sandwich, according to recent survey from market researcher Datassential. That demand pushed U.S. sales at chicken-focused fast-food restaurants a category that includes Popeyes, KFC and Chick-fil-A to more than $32.2 billion in 2020, up 7.6 percent from a year earlier, according to market researcher Euromonitor International. U.S. sales at their burger-focused counterparts, on th
Chicken run! Fast food joints complain of poultry shortage as chicken sandwich wars cause demand to soar
Analysts say an increase in demand during the chicken sandwich wars, coupled with a global pandemic and extreme weather, has affected the chicken supply
Many fast-food executives are now saying they cannot meet the demand for their chicken sandwiches, as their profits soar
The demand for chicken wings has also increased during the pandemic
But a freak snow storm in Texas in February hindered the poultry industry, and suppliers say they do not have enough employees to meet the demand