The food service sector was almost in marginal existence in the 1960s. You went to a bowling alley, a McDonalds, or some local restaurant. Today? In any town of 20,000....there’s at least thirty establishments, and they translate into 1,200 jobs in the local area.
In the 1990s....it was deemed appropriate to get into the job market there, and then move on.....finding better jobs, education, and more opportunity.
Well...here we are....with no new markets, a declining industry pattern throughout all fifty states (we shifted jobs to Mexico and China)....and we pretend that the food service sector is now a life-time job.
Something about this is absolutely wrong in vision. Even if you made the jobs $10 an hour....you simply are gaming the sector for 2020 and $14 an hour.
We screwed up when we allowed industry to pack and leave. And this gimmick here? This is the answer to our issues? I just don’t believe it.
While we’re on this subject, I watch the Food Network and they have so many shows dedicated to people who want to open up a restaurant, or food truck. With so many people out of work...out of money, who’s spending their money on eating out?
You need to catch up. Here in Washington state the minimum wage is $9-something an hour. In the town of SeaTac they just voted a minimum wage of $15 an hour!!
A friend of mine is looking for work in S. Carolina. He has seen adds for Bachelor of Science degrees, two years experience, and $11 an hour. Pretty stupid to have government interfere in things where a guy flipping burgers is guaranteed a better wage than a B.Sc. graduate. (Although now-a-days they are often one in the same).
We’re doing the same thing with the print media. Once it’s gone, we’ll never get it back.