Posted on 04/01/2017 5:57:54 PM PDT by heterosupremacist
The population of Denver has been steadily growing over the past few years, but not enough of its new inhabitants want to work in the restaurant industry.
The reason? The higher-paying jobs are in weed, man.
New eateries are popping up all over Denver to meet the increased demand of residents and tourists, but restaurant owners claim they’re having a hard time filling their kitchens with able-bodied workers, Bloomberg reports.
“Our work force is being drained by the pot industry,” Denver restaurateur Bryan Dayton told the site.
“Enter the weed business, which pays $22 an hour with full benefits,” added Dayton. “You can come work in a kitchen for (me) for eight hours a day, in a hot kitchen. It’s a stressful life. Or you can go sort weed in a climate-controlled greenhouse. It’s a pretty obvious choice.”
So why don’t restaurant owners just pay a little more? Quite simply, the marijuana industry can generally afford to pay workers at various levels much higher wages, they argue.
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I call bullshit. When you have indulged herb you are famished.
Gives a new meaning to the restaurant term, “Being In the Weeds.”
““Enter the weed business, which pays $22 an hour with full benefits,””
Good paying jobs in a growth industry.
Girl scout cookies are doing great.
They are saying the waiters and cooks are stoned and can’t cook or serve right, not that people aren’t hungry.
Brownie sales up as well!
Greenies complain about arable land being used for biofuel rather than food for the hungry.
More weed; less food.
Can one die from unrequited munchies?
I call for a $30 an hour minimum wage for Pot workers!!!
Free the Bud!
Actually I’m dry for 20 years now and seldom wake
up on the floor.
The snack food and pizza industry should be skyrocketing.
The pot industry is smaller than the restaurant industry, so it can’t be stealing everyone. More dangerous is that Colorado passed a minimum wage increase.
“They are saying the waiters and cooks are stoned and can’t cook or serve right . . .”
And customers aren’t stoned and can tell the difference?
Free-market competition is a bitch.
Hit Taco bell on the way home.
It’s not the pot users who are the problem. It’s that the pot growers pay so much more.
If new eateries are popping up all over Denver, there should be good money for those in the biz.
Raise their wages if ya want workers. Otherwise find another biz to invest in.
I figured it would hurt the restaurant business because nobody eats full meals anymore. They eat snacks all the time ‘cause they got the munchies.
One suspects that Denver's labor pool is...ummm...
...wasted, pretty much anyhoo, and not much interested in that ... ummm...
...work thingy...
...dude.
A booming economy that lifts all boats, and the left continues to complain.
They would complain if you hung them with a new rope.
They can’t get good tips for good service?
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