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Owner of pizza shop says new Seattle minimum wage law is forcing her to close
Fox News ^ | April 28, 2015 | Tina Patel

Posted on 04/29/2015 4:34:57 PM PDT by george76

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To: george76
Director Jess Spear hadn’t heard about Z Pizza’s decision to close. So she wouldn’t comment specifically on that.

She should have just re-run the one-size-fits-all explanation of the current Democrat candidate:

"I can't be responsible for every under-capitalized small business in America!"
41 posted on 04/29/2015 6:14:17 PM PDT by Colinsky
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To: george76

You know, if I had the $$ and she could prove she was not a liberal, I’d front her the $$ to cover operations for 90 days on the condition she raise her prices commensurate with her increased labor costs JUST to demonstrate what liberals/Seattlites are: Raving hypocrites.

I’d lay dollars to donuts she’d have to fold anyway, but what a statement it would make.

hint/hint

Pizza dough is already being shipped frozen to shops. It’s only a matter of time before machines are making/baking/cutting/packaging nearly all pizzas and likely most fast food...

I can’t eat the crap anyway. Worse, most chain restaurants’ entire menus come out of the freezer or a container...all junk.

Quality food typically comes out of small shops or food carts these days, sometimes at a premium price, sometimes not. Hard work and long hours for those folks...tip ‘em well...


42 posted on 04/29/2015 6:22:18 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: george76

I wonder how Seattle is seeing what is going on to small businesses? Thank you, Seattle...


43 posted on 04/29/2015 6:32:21 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: logi_cal869

More and more “big” chains seem to be packing more of some kind of additive or chemical that triggers migraines and worse a few times. Seafood seems to be the worst offender.

I stick with the small timers and mom/pops. There are a few chain ones that don’t affect me.

My favorite small timers are a husband/wife outfit that does german sausage and the like. I discovered them by accident a few years ago. Great stuff and great people.


44 posted on 04/29/2015 6:32:22 PM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: null and void
Obamacare's Directive 10-289
45 posted on 04/29/2015 6:37:04 PM PDT by QT3.14 (What Washington Needs is Adult Supervision - Zero, 2007 campaign)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
I remember once I stopped at the New Hampshire Liquor Store on I95 (yes..the liquor store had an exit on 95, the New Hampshire Turnpike). Anyway, I saw 3 Connecticut State Police there to arrest CT citizens buying liquor. I was on.the way to my parent summer cottage, so I asked the manager if I can have a dozen empty liquor boxes. I walked out with the empty boxes in a carriage and put it in my trunk... the CSP trooper followed me until I was 25 miles into Maine.

New Hampshire has some nice malls... because of zero sales tax.

46 posted on 04/29/2015 6:42:54 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: WayneS
It turns out the REAL minimum wage is $0.00.

Good one! I'm gonna steal that.

47 posted on 04/29/2015 6:44:15 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: Lazamataz
That's coming. Mark my words.

Atlas is Shrugging my friend. It won't be long now before the whole socialist/marxist pipe-dream for re-working the American economy into their own vision comes tumbling down on their heads.

48 posted on 04/29/2015 6:49:40 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Veggie Todd

You are welcome to it.


49 posted on 04/29/2015 6:52:55 PM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: george76

Next I expect the Seattle socialists take her and other business owners to court to force them to keep their business open and fine them if they dismiss even one employee. Own your own business, not in Seattlegrad!


50 posted on 04/29/2015 7:16:43 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Popman

Didn’t Hillary say something about “not being responsible for undercapitalized businesses” during her Healthcare debate back in the 90s?


51 posted on 04/29/2015 8:01:12 PM PDT by PLMerite ("The issue is never the issue. The issue is the Revolution.")
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To: Colinsky

Ha! Beat me to it. That’s what I get for not reading all the posts before I open my mouth.


52 posted on 04/29/2015 8:05:25 PM PDT by PLMerite ("The issue is never the issue. The issue is the Revolution.")
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To: ExCTCitizen

Bienvenue à New Hampshire

Massachusetts State Troopers do that, too, only undercover. New Hampshire has invited them to leave. What they do is take license plate numbers and radio down to MA, where the Staties intercept the miscreants when they reenter MA. (Take the back roads home, next time.)

Someone snapped pictures of a car with with Massachusetts State Assembly plates, and pictures of the Solon loading his car with cartons of liquor. Talk about hypocrisy. The pictures were all over FoxNews25 Boston and the Herald. Somehow, the Staties and Boston Globe missed him.


53 posted on 04/30/2015 2:55:02 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (This is known as "bad luck". - Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Know et al

A friend closed his pizza joint down a few years ago. He had it for 20 years. Bad economy, increasing minimum wage (”and if I have to pay my worst guy more, I want to keep my best guys happy, so their wages go up”). I loved their pizza and forced myself to go in there and drop $28 to feed my family once a week - the prices were crazy.

But he said a huge factor was the price of flour and vegetables. Well, when the farmers stop growing wheat and vegetables to get the government subsidies to grow ethanol corn - that will happen.


54 posted on 04/30/2015 3:04:17 AM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: driftless2

“I hope he has a lot of students in his classes.”

The University of Washington is raising some student fee that the students pay in order to pay more to the students that work on campus.

Stories of waitresses complaining. “I used to get free parking, free food, and overtime. Now I don’t get any of it. And I make less tips. I’m losing money.”


55 posted on 04/30/2015 3:08:00 AM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: rarestia

You read it in a book.


56 posted on 04/30/2015 3:15:28 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: ExCTCitizen
... the CSP trooper followed me until I was 25 miles into Maine.

Well done! LOL

57 posted on 04/30/2015 3:18:57 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: bamabound

“Planning on sharing this rule with some Dems.”

It won’t make a difference in their beliefs; they’ve been brainwashed. I know some libs - two of them very well. We’ve mentioned that raising minimum raise would force some businesses to close. They truly think that everyone who owns a business — even the mom-and-pop type — are wealthy. They think that the money is stashed in a mattress or safety deposit box and are lying when they say they can’t afford to pay employees more. (We shake our heads in disbelief.)


58 posted on 04/30/2015 3:21:04 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: null and void

Bet nobama has an orgasm reading that.


59 posted on 04/30/2015 10:48:23 PM PDT by upchuck (The current Federal Governent is what the Founding Fathers tried to prevent. WAKE UP!! Amendment V.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I don’t get it, it’s illegal to buy booze across state lines??

Ed


60 posted on 05/01/2015 2:45:13 AM PDT by Sir_Ed
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