Pot is ruining Denver’s restaurant industry

http://nypost.com ^ | 04/01/2017 | n/a

[heterosupremacist]

The population of Denver has been steadily growing over the past few years, but not enough of its new inhabitants want to work in the restaurant industry.

The reason? The higher-paying jobs are in weed, man.

New eateries are popping up all over Denver to meet the increased demand of residents and tourists, but restaurant owners claim they’re having a hard time filling their kitchens with able-bodied workers, Bloomberg reports.

“Our work force is being drained by the pot industry,” Denver restaurateur Bryan Dayton told the site.

“Enter the weed business, which pays $22 an hour with full benefits,” added Dayton. “You can come work in a kitchen for (me) for eight hours a day, in a hot kitchen. It’s a stressful life. Or you can go sort weed in a climate-controlled greenhouse. It’s a pretty obvious choice.”

So why don’t restaurant owners just pay a little more? Quite simply, the marijuana industry can generally afford to pay workers at various levels much higher wages, they argue.

[DennisR]

Unintended consequences for passing a stupid law. It will probably be the same thing here in USSR-WA. Then even less people will be hired for another stupid law - the minimum wage.

[Farmer Dean]

The problem is these jobs produce nothing of real value to society.

[mountainlion]

Pleas note the source.

Northern Colorado has had high employment rates even in spite of Barry. Street drugs are much cheaper than government taxed and are outselling Governor Chickenpooper’s stores.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Pay them in weed instead of cash .... maybe they will work for you then.

[WMarshal]

“They are saying the waiters and cooks are stoned and can’t cook or serve right, not that people aren’t hungry.”

LOL!

You Have to take the good with the bad.

[Paladin2]

Restaurante food is way over salted. Nanny Bloomie needs to go fix Denver.

[M Kehoe]

Labor, just like soybeans, crude oil and pork bellies are commodities. Commodities tend to follow the laws of supply and demand.

This restaurant owner should know that.

5.56mm

[BluH2o]

Speaking, from personal experience, in Denver restaurants the behavior of customers is becoming ever more bizarre.
Attributable in my opinion to pot.
These incidents both occurred in the LO-Do (lower downtown) upscale restaurant area of the city ...
Won't go into the details ... however, I've had the pleasure to have dined in some of the more upscale eateries across this country.
The Denver restaurant scene is getting progressively more weird ... no question.

[WMarshal]

Look, Americans have voted with their feet and their wallet - weed is here to stay, just like that gin & tonic you probably swill down ever nigh while you drunkenly bitch about stoners. Many of the founding fathers smoked hemp and if it was ok with them, it is ok with me. And you know what, if it wasn’t, too bad, America hasn’t bought into marijuana prohibition so it is a dead-letter no-matter-what.

[TheTimeOfMan]

I think legalizing dope is a Really Bad Idea - but if you need more workers - pay higher wages.

Supply and demand. Part of the free market.

[MileHi]

Reading comprehension ain’t your forte, huh?

[WMarshal]

“Free-market competition is a bitch!”

Love it! Country-Club Conservatives can go FOAD.

[meyer]

I’ll bet that potato chip sales are through the roof though!

[heterosupremacist]

#26 Paladin2 wrote: Restaurante food is way over salted. Nanny Bloomie needs to go fix Denver. Nanny Bloomie is only half as demented as Mayor de Blasio...

[Kickass Conservative]

In this case maybe H1-B Visas are the answer.

Doing the work Stoned Americans just won’t do. LOL

[meyer]

Actually I’m dry for 20 years now and seldom wake up on the floor.

No No No No I don't ffffffft no more,
tired of waking up on the floor.
No thank you please, it only makes me sneeze,
Then it makes it hard to find the door.

[freedumb2003]

>>They are saying the waiters and cooks are stoned and can’t cook or serve right, not that people aren’t hungry.<<

That is the second time in as many days that someone has suggested we are supposed to read more than the headline and first sentence.

Is FR going mad?

[BipolarBob]

Girl scout cookies are doing great.

Girl Scout Cookies.? Wait isn't that a strain of pot? . . . clever

[doorgunner69]

Denver has apparently become a liberal cesspool, so tough shiite............

[WMarshal]

Oh the horror! The disruptive industry “he is stealing my cheese!”