Saturday, July 5, 2014

Why Shake Shack CEO Randy Garutti Pays His Team More Than the Minimum Wage


Paying Employees to Stay, Not to Go. (The New York Times, 7/4/2014)

Looking beyond the bottom line.  These companies’ founders were intent on paying their workers more than the going rate partly because they wanted to do the right thing, they said, and partly because they thought this would help their companies thrive long term.

"These companies" include

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