Are these numbers for an average US franchise or am I misunderstanding?
If so, it would make sense that for the average franchise, doubling salary wouldn't be viable. But surely there's a distribution where some stores are much more profitable than the average, and for those stores it would. Presumably that's part of the reason why Denmark only has 80 McDonalds (about 1/3 per capita of what the US does[0]).
We thought of that, but again: McD's Corporate has numbers for 4 of the DK locations, and they look like the American numbers. All of the DK locations allegedly use the higher wage. I don't understand how this could work.
If so, it would make sense that for the average franchise, doubling salary wouldn't be viable. But surely there's a distribution where some stores are much more profitable than the average, and for those stores it would. Presumably that's part of the reason why Denmark only has 80 McDonalds (about 1/3 per capita of what the US does[0]).
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_McDonal...