Subway in Ireland lost a court case about VAT because the bread they sell is not bread but cake because of the high sugar content. Bread is VAT exempt because it is a staple food while cake is not.
I'm actually shocked that Subway bread is ~10% sugar. Because it's not like it tastes sweet. It just tastes like bread. Not great bread, don't get me wrong. But I would have thought that a 10-to-1 flour-to-sugar ratio would be very, very noticeably sweet. But I don't bake bread so I guess I just don't know these things.
Most of the bread I have had when visiting the US tasted sweet to me. Even my children (brought up in Norway and aged then between 5 and 15) complained that everything was too sweet.
Oh wow -- OK, so then it's pretty easy to imagine that suddenly McDonald's, Taco Bell, Starbucks -- they all start installing little miniature baking ovens in the corner and adding a "fresh-baked bread roll" at the very bottom of the menu.
If that's all it takes to avoid paying minimum wage?
When I was in college, the city where my university was located had a requirement that a drinking establishment had to sell food to have a liquor license. This meant that the local bar, which was actually a hollowed out house, had a menu which consisted of $20 cans of soup and $50 hot pockets. I was drunk enough to buy the hot pocket once.
