Fran works six days a week in fast food, and yet she's homeless: 'It's economic slavery'
by Dominic Rushe with video by Tom Silverstone from on (#2ZVK9)
Fran Marion and Bridget Hughes are leading voices in Stand Up Kansas City, part of the Fight for $15 movement that aims raise the minimum wage across the US
Once a customer has barked their order into the microphone at the Popeyes drive-thru on Prospect Avenue, Kansas City, the clock starts. Staff have a company-mandated 180 seconds to take the order, cook the order, bag the order and deliver it to the drive-thru window.
The restaurant is on "short shift" at the moment, which means it has about half the usual staff, so Fran Marion often has to do all those jobs herself. On the day we met, she estimates she processed 187 orders - roughly one every two minutes. Those orders grossed about $950 for the company. Marion went home with $76.
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