Anyone who thinks that a $15 min wage will work in the restaurant industry is a damn fool. It will destroy restaurants. People can’t afford to eat at restaurants now, just wait until they have to hike their food prices by 30% and see what happens. They won’t be able to sell all their rotting food that no one will pay for and will quickly go under.
You are exactly right! That will be the end of the foodie restaurant craze and along with that, the celebrity chefs like this Mario Battalli jerk! I predict, however, that companies like Blue Apron will reap the windfall from foodies who still want gourmet cooking but will have to resort to cooking it themselves.
“Anyone who thinks that a $15 min wage will work in the restaurant industry is a damn fool. It will destroy restaurants”
All these lower end restaurant jobs will be automated. No need for chefs, waiters, and cashiers. High-end restaurants will still have humans.
Let them have the raise. But don’t leave a tip. Diners might even save a few cents in the process. The waitresses will soon be begging for the old lower wages and the old lower prices.
If so then the ones that remain will get more business and will be able to pay the wage. It all works out.
I rarely go out.
A good burger place in my area runs $12-18 depending on the location.
In the middle of nowhere town close to where I slave for a living, there is a little sandwich shop/flower place that is pretty good and not too hard on the wallet.
I’m picky and avoid any of questionable places if at all possible.