Seattle’s Wage Mandate Kills Restaurants

No, not minimum wage..

 

Well this was hardly reading LMAO Thank God Mello Guy had a great point or your post would have been a total nothing burger! ¯\_(º¸º)_/¯

 

The leftist economics, suck all you can out of the bastards because they are most likely to fail anyway

 

I find it Comic relief..

 

And Kroger is testing packaging now that tally's soon as you get to the pay station.. Produce it the only thing holding them back ATM..

 

Or pay wages where the employees can be consumers who help support hundreds of other businesses. It's not a one-way street. You know who buys food at restaurants? Restaurant employees who eat at other restaurants.

 

You got that right, Seattle use to be a really fun city to visit, but the Liberals have turned it into a Shithole. Now if you want to go to a restaurant there, you have to step over and tip toe around all the used Needles, Human Feces and actually need to have a very large concern that you might be assaulted by the Homeless invasion there. Some parts of what was once a beautiful city now look like a refugee camp in Syria. There's a revolving door policy for Criminals where as soon as they are arrested, they're released back to continue attacking people. It's not only restaurants that are closing, but other businesses that are being constantly ripped of and employee's threatened. The Liberals have literally given the get out of Jail free card to criminals and given them more rights than Law abiding tax payers. There are RV's parked all over the place, where Drug addicts shoot up and plan their criminal activity. Sickening place to go now.

 

I think the fundamental question is why should government decide what the minimum should be? People earning the minimum only represent 5 percent of the population anyway. Let the restaurant pay 10 cents an hour if they really want to. No one will work there at that wage anyway.

 

Guess what? All that automation was being developed and test marketed when the minimum wage was $9.00 per hour. It was going to happen anyway.

 

Eateries are different Daniel.. The cost curve even at $10 push's many customers to simply fixing their own meals, especially those with a couple children.. It's not like buying a pair of pants that can be worn for a period of time, food is just a one time deal and then a turd you have to pay to flush and clean up after

 

That's because big companies look ahead! Something Democrat politicians don't do

 

And just like every other minimum wage increase over the last 40 years, those costs soon get baked into people's psyche and we go right back to the way it was before the raise. It's not like we don't have a historical pattern on minimum wage increases to learn from.

 

The two owners are two if the most suceessful in the city one acreditted win creating the boom and yes you are saying the city sets the rules for "good" restaurants. They mandate the wages and if yo can't pay them you are not a good restaurant.
And business, some survive MARKET DRIVEN incremental competitive wage increases which the MARKET deterimines it can bear. This is wage increase by government fiat and intrusion into the free market and we see the results as much as you are in denial.

 

Well isn't that what they are doing? The owner pays more for labor, and product so he charges more and people shy away and prepare the same foods "Fast foods" for far less money!! And it does "wage hikes" in some cases kill your customer base! Plus eateries deal in perishables so their products is subject to shelf life, it's tough Bro to be a restaurant owner and deal with wages, shrink and to lose customers base.

 

How does one pay wages that profits doesn't afford it?


WTF?

 

So your argument would be that after the last minimum wage increase, every restaurant in Seattle closed down and none ever reopened.

 

Raising the minimum wage is useless, raising the minimum wage causes inflation

 

Its lemonade stand economics 101.

You are still at the bottom

 

Do you use charcoal, gas, or wood? Post as much on this subject as you like. I will read it all.

I think to save by eating at home one has to do it regularly. Many times I have bought 8 hamburger buns, eaten 4, and the other 4 go into the freezer. By the time I grill again, I want fresh buns, so ....

Of course, I really have no excuse for not making my own hamburger buns. Or mayo, for that matter.

 

Catch 22. If you don't pay wages high enough for your employees to be consumers, then every business they used to visit has revenue problems and those owners don't eat at restaurants. If you raise the wages, then those thousands of restaurant workers visit other businesses more often and the owners of those businesses can eat out more.

But as we've seen before, minimum wage raises get baked into the system after a few months, and people go back to their old habits, otherwise every restaurant would have closed forever after the first implementation of minimum wages.

 

Id imagine at some point the more profitable eating stations in a leftist world will that of a hog trough type setting. Where the customers pay a flat rate and simply graze a long buffet while people drop armpit hairs, cough, sneeze and all serve themselves with the same serving utensils out the same tub that children grab a handful out of from time to time!!

 

Your argument would be

It's not about Seattle and you know it its about the the federal minimum wage being raised

Some people hate companies moving to low minimum wage states..

Admit it already

 

Bullshit the catch 22 is you want a $15 buck minimum wage across the country

So companies don't move.

 

I thought I was the only one who paid a guy jusy to flush my toilet for me. He's always griping about his salary, but it's not like he does very much.

 

All of the above! I'm sort of a "Self proclaimed Pit master" around this area