[heterosupremacist]

[WMarshal]

I call bullshit. When you have indulged herb you are famished.

[dfwgator]

Gives a new meaning to the restaurant term, “Being In the Weeds.”

[Timpanagos1]

““Enter the weed business, which pays $22 an hour with full benefits,””

Good paying jobs in a growth industry.

[dasboot]

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?

[SkyDancer]

The snack food and pizza industry should be skyrocketing.

[Vince Ferrer]

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.

[NobleFree]

“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.”

Free-market competition is a bitch.

[dragnet2]

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.

[Terry Mross]

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.

[Seaplaner]

It cannot be just the restaurant industry.

One suspects that Denver's labor pool is...ummm...

...wasted, pretty much anyhoo, and not much interested in that ... ummm...

...work thingy...

...dude.

[DennisR]

Unintended consequences for passing a stupid law. It will probably be the same thing here in USSR-WA. Then even less people will be hired for another stupid law - the minimum wage.

[mountainlion]

Pleas note the source.

Northern Colorado has had high employment rates even in spite of Barry. Street drugs are much cheaper than government taxed and are outselling Governor Chickenpooper’s stores.

[Paladin2]

Restaurante food is way over salted. Nanny Bloomie needs to go fix Denver.

[M Kehoe]

Labor, just like soybeans, crude oil and pork bellies are commodities. Commodities tend to follow the laws of supply and demand.

This restaurant owner should know that.

5.56mm

[BluH2o]

Speaking, from personal experience, in Denver restaurants the behavior of customers is becoming ever more bizarre.
Attributable in my opinion to pot.
These incidents both occurred in the LO-Do (lower downtown) upscale restaurant area of the city ...
Won't go into the details ... however, I've had the pleasure to have dined in some of the more upscale eateries across this country.
The Denver restaurant scene is getting progressively more weird ... no question.

[meyer]

I’ll bet that potato chip sales are through the roof though!

[Kickass Conservative]

In this case maybe H1-B Visas are the answer.

Doing the work Stoned Americans just won’t do. LOL

[doorgunner69]

Denver has apparently become a liberal cesspool, so tough shiite............

[be-baw]

Slightly off topic, but I’m in Michigan where medical marijuana is legal, and possession (in my town) of an oz or less for rec use is not enforced.

Now pot shops outnumber bars by at least 6 to 1, by my estimation. Restaurants that don’t serve alcohol are plenty and seem to be doing well.

Banning tobacco use in bars has pretty much killed the local tavern industry.

[dowcaet]

If the pot industry in Colorado is paying workers $22 an hour with benefits then demand for their product must be sky high. Must be a run on city hall in Denver to open up 7-Eleven and AM PM franchises in the area.