In January, 22 states raised their minimum wage for hourly workers, according to the WSJ. Around 59 percent of small business owners said that higher labor costs were the biggest source of inflation in January, requiring price hikes to maintain current revenue levels.
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We don't have the high minimum wage insanity here (yet). Should it come I won't be tipping the wait staff at restaurants anymore. The tip will be more than built in.
ReplyDeleteSo what is the minuim wage as I am down under and here it is $23.23 which is around $15 USD
ReplyDeleteWow, but I haven't read about one Chinky culinary take-out palace going belly up. I guess dogs & cats don't have minimum wage restrictions.
ReplyDeleteIf you look into the actual cooking area, you'll see it's full of Central and South Americans, mostly illegals.
DeleteKind of funny really. Eating out used to be a luxury until huge numbers of people forgot how to cook and only eat food other people make. Maybe some'll figure out how to read a cookbook and make meals out of ingredients. FJBidenomics gets better and better.
ReplyDeleteJust do what democrats WANT you to do: SHUT DOWN. People having jobs is bad for democrats.
ReplyDeleteOrange Man Bad.
I can't afford to eat out unlessbossman is paying.
ReplyDeleteWent to the big city over the weekend, to Steak &Shake. Not one person working in the front. No cashiers, or waitresses.
ReplyDeleteAll ordered and paid at a "kiosk".
There were cooks in the back only.
If a business can't afford to pay a wage they won't.
There is a Steak & Shake down the way, I'm going to have to take a look.
DeleteLast time I went to a Steak & Shake, a kiosk would've been preferred. The wait staff was horrible.
DeleteHonestly the kiosk is preferred to dealing with an incompetent, there is a way higher likely hood of my order actually being correct this way. These people are not needed they serve no purpose other than to get in the way and get paid for it.
DeleteWaitstaff don't get minimum wage in most states. They can be paid as little as $2 an hour, if they're allowed to keep their tips. Tipping being an accepted part of wages is an abomination, and should be banned. If you have to rely on your customers to directly pay your workers, you deserve to go out of business. Maybe people will start fucking cooking again, eh? Somehow, in basically every other nation on the planet, they manage to have restaurants without allowing tipping to be counted as part of the staff's wages. People still tip, sometimes, but only for truly exceptional service. No bullshit guilt trips, because the owners actually have to pay their waitstaff (and other staff, in hotels etc) just like any other worker in any other profession. Madness, amirite? Home cooking FTW. (For The Win, if I understand it correctly)
ReplyDeleteI don't trust anyone enough to eat out, any more. Even grocery store food is getting sketchy.
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