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$15 minimum wage shutters old-school Brooklyn diner
New York Post ^ | July 22, 2016 | 10:47pm | Jennifer Bain and Natalie O’Neill

Posted on 07/23/2016 9:46:33 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Say goodbye to the late-night fries and gravy.

One of the last classic Brooklyn diners is biting the dust — and soon they’ll all die off due to the state’s minimum-wage increase and other factors, restaurateurs and economic experts predicted Friday.

The owner of the four-decade-old, 24-hour greasy spoon, Del Rio Diner in Gravesend, said his place is closing down because he can’t afford to pay cooks $15 an hour, along with rising rents and expensive Health Department inspection fees. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bluezones; brooklyn; cuomo; deblasio; delriodiner; fightfor15; gravesend; healthdepartment; minimumwage; newyork; nyc; theend; urban
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Welcome to Obama’s Diner.

Coffee......$15
Pie.........$15
Water.......$15

Remember to tip your server, it’s the Law!


21 posted on 07/23/2016 10:02:12 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Doesn’t the “California Effect” still guarantee stuff happening on a national level? Jerry Brown signed that phase-in of $15 minimum wage over six years, even though he admitted that “(e)conomically” it does “not make sense”.


22 posted on 07/23/2016 10:04:34 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

$15 an hour - Job Killer

Caution progressives at work


23 posted on 07/23/2016 10:08:31 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: Olog-hai

At $15/hr. waitstaff don’t need tips. Ohhhh, nooooo! Can’t have that because tips is how they the big bucks. I know one who makes $100-300 a shift at the mall. On a slow night, wages and tips come to $30/hr. for unskilled labor. On a good night, over $50/hr. just keeping water glasses full. Not to mention most tips never show up on their taxes.


24 posted on 07/23/2016 10:11:23 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Olog-hai

One of my friends is a regular there along with some coworkers. While the reasons given probably played a major role as well, my friend said the owner was offered mucho dinero for his property.


25 posted on 07/23/2016 10:11:53 AM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: M1903A1

Where did the offer come from?

Can’t see any business succeeding there no matter what. Candidate for “affordable housing”?


26 posted on 07/23/2016 10:12:55 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

There is no $15 Minimum Wage.

Employers have other costs that add to their total Employee Compensation.

It’s more like $18 an hour.


27 posted on 07/23/2016 10:13:44 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (There is nothing Democratic about the Democrat Party. (Or the GOPe))
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To: SkyDancer
What will they do now?

I recommend when they get really hungry to go find some politicians to eat.

28 posted on 07/23/2016 10:17:08 AM PDT by Gritty ("Our most effective response to terror is compassion, it's unity and it's love" - A/G Loretta Lynch)
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To: M1903A1

That makes sense. Why not sell out and make a lot of Money out of it? Even though only New York and California (and a few other places) are instituting the $15 minimum wage, what we are seeing is an intense pressure for the fast food/restaurant industry to automate. We will see an increased use of kiosks so we wont have to pay for waiters.


29 posted on 07/23/2016 10:17:54 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

And I’ll see a lot more home cooking.

Seems to me that the left is actually pushing automation by doing this.


30 posted on 07/23/2016 10:20:15 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: HiTech RedNeck
If you could not work you went to jail

Jail isn't a bad place in the US. A charge of homelessness won't get you sent to a max security unit so the threat of gang violence isn't a worry. Free room, board, color tv, gym membership, arts and crafts, no late fees at the library, no passing of the collection plate during church services, free dental, free gender surgery, etc.

31 posted on 07/23/2016 10:20:45 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Olog-hai

How about a minimum-profit law for employers expected to pay these externally dictated wages?

Comes out of their general revenue fund.


32 posted on 07/23/2016 10:20:53 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Olog-hai

On the other hand, who wants to eat at a place that pays the chefs less than 15/hr? Jeez, is the guy hiring bums to cook food?


33 posted on 07/23/2016 10:22:49 AM PDT by raybbr (That progressive bumpers sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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To: ClearCase_guy

Leftists “would love to change the world”

Always loved that guitar solo...


34 posted on 07/23/2016 10:23:35 AM PDT by newfreep
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To: Olog-hai

What a shame.


35 posted on 07/23/2016 10:23:59 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: raybbr

Leftists don’t pay according to merit, although they think they do. NYC mayor John Lindsay (1966-1973) thought that way, i.e. one must offer $40,000 per year for positions that were then paying half that amount, in order to attract people worth the higher amount; instead, he ended up with people worth $20,000 being paid double. And now that is being forced on the private sector.


36 posted on 07/23/2016 10:27:34 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

The ones that are protesting for the minimum wage escalation probably don’t have a job to worry about. What they are too stupid to realize is there are going to be a lot fewer jobs in the future because the businesses won’t reopen and new businesses won’t come along to replace the ones these “progressive” buttheads drove out of business.


37 posted on 07/23/2016 10:28:24 AM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: Olog-hai
wonder if the owners voted for RATS and are now getting bit in their azz for it?
38 posted on 07/23/2016 10:32:31 AM PDT by Chode (You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING!)
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To: Olog-hai

“To add insult to injury, there are the ever-increasing Department of Health regulations, so Cuomo stuck it to these businesses double”

All in the plan, drive the little to the gutter, open an Apple store, Starbucks or Chipolte in it”s place. Much higher tax base.


39 posted on 07/23/2016 10:32:54 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: Olog-hai; All

10th Amendment-protected state powers are not immune to social Darwinism. I suppose that we can always remove cities from the map and stars from the flag for cities and states that implode.


40 posted on 07/23/2016 10:40:20 AM PDT by Amendment10
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