Increase fast food wages?

[Ryllharu]

I`m not familiar with the wages in USA, how many people can you sustain realistically with fast food wage?

Less than one if solo. I suppose it is doable, though not fun, if there are two minimum wage earners per household.

$7.25/hr. A fast food worker will be lucky to get 40 hours, most won't. So that's at most $1160 a month, before taxes. Assume the worker has to pay for food and rent (utilities probably not included). Average 2012 rent in the US was around $850 a month.
If they're part-timers, they won't get benefits.

I'm not going to get into the economics of raising the wage or not, because I argued that position once on IRC and got my ass handed to me. Economics is not my forte.