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Restaurants are very overrated, and there are probably too many of them
Well the good news is with a living wage being paid to servers in those areas, we no longer have to subscribe to the mandatory tipping system when we go out to eat.
The result of one early experiment in a citywide $15 minimum wage is an ominous sign for the state’s poorer inland counties as the statewide wage floor creeps toward the mark.
Consider San Francisco, an early adopter of the $15 wage. It’s now experiencing a restaurant die-off, minting jobless hash-slingers, cashiers, busboys, scullery engineers and line cooks as they get pink-slipped in increasing numbers. And the wage there hasn’t yet hit $15.
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A recent study by Michael Luca at Harvard Business School and Dara Lee Luca at Mathematica Policy Research found that every $1 hike in the minimum wage brings a 14 percent increase in the likelihood of a 3.5-star restaurant on Yelp! closing.
Many on C-D, like myself, have been claiming that job losses will happen with high minimum wages. There is still time to reverse course for those who would rather have people working than forcing business to pay labor more than certain jobs are worth.
I ran a business for over 30 years, always paid well above minimum, which gained me some very loyal employees and had no negative effect on my bottom line.
So don't be stupid enough to jack up the minimum wage so high to $15. You never hear of stories in the media how the min. wage of $9.30 is destroying jobs in Colorado where the unemployment rate is under 3%, or in Nebraska where the min. wage is $9.
Many on C-D, like myself, have been claiming that job losses will happen with high minimum wages. There is still time to reverse course for those who would rather have people working than forcing business to pay labor more than certain jobs are worth.
Please try to grasp how severely wrong you and others are. In Colorado, the min. wage is $9.30 an hour. The unemployment rate is 2.6%. Compare that to Oklahoma where the min. wage is $7.25 an hour, and the unemployment rate is 4.3%.
I looked up the unemployment rate in the Bay area. Its 3.1%...
Just more scare mongering from the ruling donor class and their working stiff shills. This propaganda will continue for years as workers finally start having the guts to stand up for themselves.
I am fine with minimum wage being a local thing. Adopting $15 per hour nationwide would be ridiculous and hurt many of the people such a law would be attempting to help.
Self checkout happens in places with $7.25 minimum wage and it has happened in countries with $25 minimum wage (incl employer payroll taxes and worker benefits). You cant fight that.
Right. My West 6th St. Wal-Mart finally added self checkers. Min wage here is $7.25.
Our local, large McD's franchisee is adding tablets for ordering. Bye bye cashiers at counter.
When Casual dining did this, they fired cleaning staff paid full MW, and had waitresses (title on payroll) clean tables with the extra time they saved as folks self ordered food. Went from a combined restaurant cost of $9.42 (1 mw, 1 waitress wage) to 2.17 per hour. Ca-ching.
I wonder if Wendy's is doing something similar. In my town an additional Wendy's is going to be added and the old one torn town and replaced by a new one.
Right. My West 6th St. Wal-Mart finally added self checkers. Min wage here is $7.25.
The future is automation. Raising minimum wages just speeds up the process.
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