True, but the way I have heard that story "spun" in the past is that it is
done as a labor saving technique. In the face of threats of increases in
the minimum wage in the US, these sorts of businesses (which see minimum
wage labor as a relatively high percentage of total costs) would have an
incentive to make such a preemptive strike. My question is that (I think)
these sorts of labor market restrictions are more prevalent in Europe, but
have companies reacted similarly? I think previous posts have said that
there are no free drink re-fills in Europe <sit down restaurants>, but is
this also true of fast food? Maybe the test case is the same franchise on
different continents.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, July 09, 2000 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: Free Re-fills
>In a message dated 7/9/00 10:38:41 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
><< McDonalds and Burger King don't offer free
> refills on anything.
> >>
>
>Not so---most fast-food places of this type now have self-serve soft
drinks,
>and while they don't explicitly say you are permitted to drink as much as
you
>want, they don't try to restrict you either.
>
>Brian Doherty
>
