How many, and what percent of the total number? Will it be 2 or 3%, or 30-40%, or somewhere in between?
Lefties are getting what they voted for. Tough to feel bad for them although I do have sympathy for the business owners that didn’t want $15 per hour for just this reason.
Looks like the money tree has no more money on it.
Bump
There is today’s liberalism, thinking having the power in government to do anything you please, and then there is reality. The media is the biggest enabler of these falsehoods.
The sad thing is these statist liberals/progressives will just shrug off all the damage they have done to the small business man, the backbone of what made America work, and look for other ways to exploit them for their own government greed.
CGato
LibTurds have made another DETROIT.
There is notihng stopping the states from using their 10th Amendment-protected power, such power constitutionally unchecked with respect to minimum wage, to shoot their feet off as a consequence the foolish use of such power.
If socialists ultimately sink Washington State as a consequence of chasing their minimum wage fantasies then we can always remove a star from the flag.
Good. The less these drone “jobs” are, the better society will be. Now if only gubmint benefits are terminated... will force the parasite class to rise up.
This is simpleton logic which I expect when liberals run anything and rapidly make a hash of it - I would imagine the servers are not thrilled about it in the slightest as: 1) food prices will rise; 2) business will fall off; 3) people will be a lot less likely to tip over 15 percent since they know the server is making a lot more than the minimum and tis reflected in their dinner checks; and, 4) this will all be reported as taxable income to the IRS, as opposed to tips, which are often “guesstimated’ by the recipients according to what I have read about the restaurant industry.
Eat it, leftists.
Someone will open up. Eating out is a bargain.
How can they afford it? They keep their costs low, their menu options minimal, and deliver pretty good food. On the flip side, their menu prices are also relatively low compared to other chains.
Thing is, up until now, by offering higher wages than competitors, they were able to maintain not only employee loyalty, but encourage hard work for that money. The customer benefited, the employees benefited, and the company benefited.
Now, by artificially raising the tide of wages, they will strip out much of that ethic that In-N-Out has been able to maintain by eliminating their ‘higher than average’ wages and making it equal with the clock puncher at McDonalds who could really care less what you buy, what they do, and even if you get your order.
And that's going to hit restaurants hard - chain restaurants will simply have more clock punchers, places that offered higher wages likely won't be able to raise them much higher - why work hard for $17 an hour when you can slug along at $15? Traditional restaurants will likely have to cut down kitchen staff - eliminating thousands of prep kitchen assistants and simplifying menus, and server staff will have to pick up more of the slack, as many busboy positions will be eliminated as well.
In the end, what the people of Seattle will get is probably worse service, fewer menu choices, fewer options to eat at, and lose tens of thousands of jobs. It'll be an absolute boon to the kitchen food supply companies, as restaurants turn to more pre-prepared food to serve as they can no longer process fresh foods into meals, and it will be an absolute boon to food borne illness, as all these cuts mean more exposure of food to contamination from tables being cleaned by servers, food left on tables longer, kitchen staff filling in for busboys, etc.
So yes, the dream of a $15 an hour food service job is obtainable on the open market, but by making the market change, they eliminate the rewards of hard work. They hurt local farms which will find less of a market for their raw foods, they hurt the currently employed by making their services too expensive, they hurt the food options through simplified menus and more reliance on food service companies, all so they can feel better about paying more for the same food.
I sometimes wish balloting wasn't secret. I'd love to see a $30 surcharge on every bill given to a voter for this deal, since even with the higher wages, the servers deserve more, and they should pay that extra. Maybe the restaurant could split that surcharge with staff and lower the bills of those who didn't vote for this idiocy.
Well, if privately-owned restaurants can’t survive, then the government will have to subsidize them, or even take them over.
Then, food prices can be priced on a “progressive” sliding scale, so the EBT crowd can get burgers for $0.25, while the rich white people will have to pay $25.00 /s
Seattle restaurants going dark as $15 an hour minimum wage goes into effect
3/14/2015, 8:54:42 AM · by afraidfortherepublic · 129 replies
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3267831/posts
Seattle eateries closing as $15 minimum wage approaches
Hotair ^ | 03/14/2015 | Jazz Shaw
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3267895/posts
$15 an hour closing restaurants? who could have seen that coming/ Oh yeah anyone with a brain................
The restaurants frequented by the elites who made the law can probably afford it, so no harm done.....
The people who get killed here are the servers. They make most of their money on tips and most make lots on tips.
A good server can make a hundred or more dollars a shift on tips.
If they make $15 per hour, the combination of higher wages and higher food prices will kill tips