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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They are no chefs at a greasy spoon diner. There are short order cooks, and no one willing pays them a high wage.
I’m not sure that the Tenth Amendment covers this kind of behavior, but the Guarantee Clause of Article 4 Section 4, which states that the federal government has to “guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government”, I interpret that at least as an obligation to prevent states from instituting a socialistic form of government; but seeing as how the federal government has been itself turned socialist for decades, it is more inclined to influence the states to go socialist as it has been doing.
The Seafare, a popular seafood restaurant in Whittier, Calif. that opened in 1961 and seemed to be a fixture in the community, closed two years ago. The family that owned it cited rising costs due to Obamacare as a factor.
Ernie’s Jr., a popular family-owned Mexican restaurant in Eagle Rock, Calif. also shut its doors recently. The heirs of the original owner apparently didn’t want to deal with the hassles of running a restaurant in today’s toxic business environment.
It won’t be long before eateries belonging to chains will be the only places you can go out to eat.
How anyone lives in NYC for 30 grand with rents alone there is beyond me.
And it may be these guys at the diner were also not protestors.
They would all be called Order number xxx, or Hey You.
Thanks for mentioning that Olog-hai. I’ve thought about the republican form of government clause too. But if we made all leftist activists live in one state for example, leftist voters having to choose only from leftists to elect to office, then I do not see how such a state could survive.
Leftists would probably run the state like children playing out their fantasies, play time over after they eat all the cookies.
We will see an increased use of kiosks so we wont have to pay for waiters.
I’ve been to both Olive Garden and Chili’s recently. Both of them had terminals on the table, with which you could call the waiter, ask to re-order drinks, and pay your bill without the waiter having to pick up your credit card and taking it somewhere in the back to ring up the charge.
I’m sure they are finding that they can get by with fewer waiters and food runners in a restaurant, by having these terminals at the table.
which helps decrease their labor costs, and/or means they end up having fewer jobs altogether.
I’ve wondered about that clause to guarantee a republican form of government.
Does that mean that every state needs to have a governor, state legislature, court system, etc.???
I’ve never really heard anyone say what this means. But you figure every state is patterned after the federal government, in that, there is a chief executive/governor, all states except Nebraska have a bicameral legislature, every state has a system of courts, capped by a state level supreme court, etc.
The left is not pushing automation in any form, period. Automation will replace low skilled workers only as long as regulations keep minimizing the delta for ROI. Once it gets close enough, the leap can be made because the ROI always accelerates once the automation is in place.
The establishment is in the business of buying votes to augment their political power stranglehold over the Serfs. We are less than 4 months away from having that chance to wrest that power away back to those who truly own it. Then we will have the chance again to keep it.
Democrat = Venezula
... poverty, starvation, destruction ...
Democrats though hide behind nice words
... equality, justice, sharing, love ...
Alvin Lee was the man!
Some form of guaranteed-annual-income would be less disruptive than raising minimum wages to $15.00/hr.
For instance, if every adult were given the equivalent of (say) $8.00/hr (taxable) and allowed to earn more without claw-backs (except for normal taxes); then a $7.00/hr job would provide an income equivalent to a $15.00/hr job.
Incomes would be more “equalized” (the objective leftists would have us believe raising the minimum wage would achieve); there would be no disincentive to working (unlike the current welfare system, anywhere in 1st-world countries); and current wage scales would not be destroyed.
Raising minimum wages only guarantees more work for robots. A guaranteed minimum income would enable humans to compete with robots (for a while longer, at least).
Done right, a guaranteed minimum income would reduce, not increase total welfare program spending.
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I have a broken foot so didn’t feel like cooking so sent hubby on a rare outing for take out at Sonic for junior burgers (can’t afford the regular burgers). He just got back and was hollering. Seems this was the second time the Sonic person who handed him the sack asked for a 20% tip. brought in junior burgers (can’t afford the regular size) from Sonic. “It’s customary” she said. Seriously?!? A 20% tip for handing you a sack??? Of course, he gave her a tip, though not in cash.
And they didn’t include any ketchup.
No they wont. They may flail around first until their strength ebbs.
1. The government does not have the right to set hourly rates of pay.
2. 15 is worth more in Mississippi, and less in New York. One rate for the entire country is stupid.
3. It will make the guy earning $20 an hour demand 30.
“How anyone lives in NYC for 30 grand with rents alone there is beyond me.”
They all live outside the city. Most companies adjust for prices too. I had a friend who worked for a NYC based company in KC, he got a transfer and they doubled his salary. He just about netted even.
But then also consider how much money they fork out on transportation, living outside the city.
Ate there. Was a good greasy spoon.
Hey, if the money isn’t there, its isn’t there.
Politicians have to realize small business owners can’t rape the treasury for pie in the sky bullshit like they can.
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