Fast Food Restaurant Survey January-March 1992 Restaurant Information Chain: Burger King KFC Roy Rogers Wendy's Location: NJ PA Phone Number: Note if changed: Date: Callbacks # 1 # 2 # 3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello, may I please speak to the manager or assistant manager? I'm conducting a survey for economists at Princeton University on the effects of the Minimum Wage in the restaurant industry. The survey will only take a few minutes and your answers will be kept strictly confidential. Would you mind answering a few questions about your restaurant? Refused Asked to call back? When: Otherwise continue to question 1. 1. How many full-time and part-time workers are employed in your restaurant, excluding managers and assistant managers? Number full-time: Number part-time: 2. And how many managers and assistant managers? 3. What percent of your workers are teenagers? percent. 4. What is the average starting wage rate for a nonmanagement employee at your restaurant today? ($ per hour) the minimum wage 5. Is it the same starting rate for full-time and part-time workers? Yes: Otherwise: full-time employees: ($ per hour) part-time employees: ($ per hour) 6a. Do new employees at your restaurant usually receive a raise after some time on the job? No: Go to question 7. Yes: Then ask b. About how many weeks do they typically have to work until that raise? weeks c. And how much is the usual raise? ($ per hour) 7. Do you have any special programs to recruit new workers, such as free bus fare or a bonus to an employee who recruits a new worker? No programs Bus fare or other transportation assistance Bonus for employee who recruits a new worker Other 8a. Are there any employees in your restaurant who receive a training wage of less than $4.25 per hour No: Go to question 9. Yes: Then ask What percent of employees earn less than $4.25 per hour: 9. About what percent of your full-time and part-time employees are currently earning between $4.25 and $5.00 per hour? Not the managers and assistant managers: just the non-management employees. percent. 10. Do you provide employees with a free or reduced price meal? No: Yes, free meals Yes, reduced-price meals 11. About what percent of your employees have been working at the restaurant for over 6 months? Percent 12. About what percent have been working at the restaurant for over a year? Percent 13. What are your hours for a typical weekday (Monday to Thursday)? Open from to 14. And what are your hours on Saturday? Open from to Now I have a few questions on prices in your store. with tax 15. What is the price of a medium soda : without tax with tax 16. What is the price of a small order of fries: without tax 17a. Ask for Burger King, Roy Rogers, or Wendy's Only with tax What is the price of a regular hamburger: without tax 17b. Ask for KFC Only with tax What is the price for 2 pieces of chicken: without tax Or equivalent (specify): 18. How many cash registers are in your store? (number) 19. How many (of these cash registers) do you usually have open at 11:00 am? All of them OR number open . 20a. Is your store company-owned or a franchise unit: Company owned Go to 21 Franchised unit Then Ask 20b. Does the owner work in the store? 21. What town is restaurant located in? Interviewer check restaurant in Pennsylvania. Go to END restaurant in New Jersey. Go to 22. NEW JERSEY ONLY 22. The New Jersey minimum wage is scheduled to rise to $5.05 per hour on April 1. Have you heard about this increase? No Yes 23. Will you have to raise the wages of some of your employees to comply with the new law? No Yes 24. Would you say this rise in the minimum wage will have a big effect on your costs of business, a small effect, or something in between? Big effect Small effect In Between END OF INTERVIEW: Thanks for your assistance.