Posted on 05/05/2021 4:53:23 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
As more and more states start easing pandemic restrictions, restaurants large and small are grappling with a widespread problem: hiring employees.
Owners and managers from New York, California, Washington, and Chicago told The Epoch Times hiring woes have become a nightmare amid a litany of other challenges like indoor occupancy rules. They say the federal unemployment bonuses handed out during the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic incentivized people to stay home instead of working.
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But, personal opinion; if you don't verify that a potential employee is legally entitled to work in this country, you are part of the problem. If you look the other way on this, to me it's the same as a butcher having his thumb on the scale when weighing my purchase in order to set the price.
As far as paying higher wages during a labor shortage, I face the same decision every time I go to a gas station; pay higher prices, or just walk everywhere while I wait for prices to get down to what I want to pay?
The problem with paying more is that you have to pay more payroll tax for each person you hire or employ. Prices for your product now have to go up and you piss off your customers.
Pretty easy to say when you haven’t invested your blood, sweat and tears into your business for years. Just revolt and risk everything you have, your investors money and time, etc...because you can sit behind you keyboard and raise your fist in solidarity while you surf.
I know, I understand. It is called inflation and the government is causing it.
Oh my God! That’s no joke! I got a flier from a restaurant I frequent that says “like our food? You’ll love making it! “
Desperate to hire. But here is the thing- they are hungry for workers but they still aren’t willing to pay.
I’ve been doing food delivery exclusively for a year. Yes, I use my own car but I now make between 25 and 30 per hour doing it.
A lot of us drivers are getting offered factory jobs and the like. Those jobs are working for companies that have seen record profits due to the Chinese flu. Thru haven’t increased their wages at all!
In southern ohio and northern kentucky there are HELP WANTED signs everywhere...
Seems no one wants to work for 10 or 12 bucks an hour..
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Not wearing a face diaper and the 24 to 29.4 hours you can normally get at a place.
grubhub?
Trucking, service and other industries and it’s being done on purpose
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Trucking pays $1600 a month training wages for about the first two months.
Then as low done OTR mega carriers pay as low as $0.20/ mile
Traffic? Not getting paid. Loading/ unloading: no pay. Waiting for load? No pay. Weather stoppages? No pay. Breakdowns: no pay
This after very expensive CDL school that also takes 3 to 4 weeks if done right.
Yes, that’s true too. Tires, batteries, oil, air filters, fuel filters, literally everything involved in running the truck and keeping up with regular maintenance. Just the tube of grease you use to smear on the hitch plate every trip. A friend in Louisiana who was a driver bought those by the case to keep his hitch greased, and he also did his own grease jobs. Twice a month I would go over to visit and he would crawl under his truck with a grease gun.
Same goes for trucking fleets, although they get lower bulk prices than he could get, it’s still a cost they have to figure into their operating expenses.
Meals on the road. Truck stop coffee. Fuel. I just checked, it’s $15 at the local Pilot for a shower. When he was driving it was less than half that, 15 years ago.
And it all is usually delivered to the retailer by truck. When their delivery cost goes up, literally everything you buy goes up. And literally everything they have to use to keep the thing on the road is going up. Vicious circle.
And by the way, most people aren’t aware of it, 15 years ago if he had to call a big rig tow truck, it was $500 to fire it up and drive across the street. Literally. If it had to go get you 25 miles away, you were looking at $2500. I saw one being hooked up a few days ago and just cringed...I bet he’s out of a job too. Fed Ex drivers are out the door for any accident at all, no matter how minor and no matter whose fault, according to a driver I talked to a couple of years ago. I think UPS does the same. If you crease the bumper youre gone. If they have to call a $2000
or $3000 wrecker...yikes...
Went to nice Restaurant other day,, manager said he is offering $600 bonus, and was worried if his $14.00 hr dishwasher was going to show,, and this is not in some high rent area of nation $14.00 to wash dishes!
And offering starting bonuses.
I think they are also trying to create the “....we need the immigrant workers in the labor force....” argument. By offering lazy Americans lots of money to stay home, it looks like there is a need for the illegals to do those jobs that “no American wants to do”....
Good point.
Restaurants cannot compete with the Government.
Restaurants must adhere to the rules of supply and demand.
Restaurants must adhere to local, state and national laws as enforced.
Most adhere to the following economic theory:
30% utilities and location cost
30% supply cost
30% salaries
10% profit
This is Business and economics 101.
ALL businesses must pay 90% of ALL money taken in as expense. The 10% profit is a variable dependent upon costs.
If any of these costs rise unexpectedly, (all are rising steeply now)owners both private and public cannot be profitable.
If a business is restricted in its hours or capacity, or has unexpected expenses long term, by definition IT MUST FAIL.
Business cannot compete with Government.
It appears Governments plan is to force all entrepreneurs out of business. Thus eliminating all competition.
Re: 5 - Really? That sounds like nothing more than an excuse to justify staying home and sucking on the government teat.
Labor, like everything else that goes into that bowl of beans, such as taxes, insurance, utility's, etc are what drives the cost of the product..
You seem quick to call other folks offensive names... Is there a reason for that.? That usually happens when someone is losing an argument.. Are you losing this argument.?? You seem to be doing pretty well, though I'm not convinced that what's happened to us is just "Free Market" pressures...
This is a serious problem across the board in most industries. Trucking, service and other industries and it’s being done on purpose. When we went on vacation restaurants are hit big time and every worker we have spoken to is pissed. They want to work because it’s the right thing to do….but are mad at the lazy people collecting a check and sitting home.
This is a big problem in the Phoenix area. In my grocery store, they’re down to half the number of employees. It’s a huge store, only 3 or 4 cashiers ever on duty, nobody bagging groceries. The former employees are getting nice fat unemployment checks. The local Lowes normally has 130 employees on staff, they are now at 70. Former workers have big unemployement checks so they prefer getting paid to do nothing. The Lowes store has been holding job fairs for almost a month, only 6 people have applied for a job. The otherwise busy pedicure salon I go to is working at least 50% below capacity because the nail technicians want to stay home and collect unemployment.
This is EXACTLY what the Vile Plugs Biden and his puppeteers wanted—fewer people working, more people becoming addicted to government handouts.
So?
Restaurants (and other affected businesses) need to pay more - a lot more.
I do ubereats with a side of instacart. PM me if you have any questions.
Other delivery services require one to schedule and follow that schedule. As an entrepreneur I find value in making my own schedule without penalty.
It's worth it to them to establish a permanent salaried voting base. After all, it's not their money...
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