Posted on 01/04/2024 5:02:37 AM PST by voicereason
Moonstone Bistro, a popular fine-dining restaurant in west Redding, has announced they will stop serving lunch, citing California’s increased minimum wage requirements as a critical factor. Starting in April, California fast-food chains, with more than 60 locations nationwide, will be required to pay their employees $20/hour. Across the state, minimum wage continues to climb and now sits at $16/hour. Moonstone Bistro won’t have to follow that first law, but they do expect its ramifications to be felt.
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"Tanya and I are the reason why this business exists, not the opposite," Che told KRCR's Sam Chimenti on Wednesday. "If we stopped working, these jobs disappear. Don't make it sound like we're terrible because we're undervaluing people's work. I think it's time for us to understand that our work is being undervalued, and that we're being told that we are terrible people because we are not giving enough."
Politicians have their hired help paid for by the taxpayers, so the sky’s the limit.
If a busboy, janitor or waiter is making $20 an hour then how much is a mechanic, electrician or plumber making?
You cannot pay so much for unskilled labor without affecting the skilled workforce. Leftist are such idiots.
2024 will be the year that corporate employees push back against 2% annual raises.
I wonder if the state of California will check Taco Truck stands to see if they pay employees 20 dollars an hour.
It would be better and easier if the Moonstone Bistro just packed up and moved their operation to Florida. Miami might be nice place to start or Palm Beach or the Tampa Bay area.
Also, no state income tax...
“Truth consists in the conformity of the mind to reality” Thomas Aquinas
People in California are slowly conforming their minds to the reality that socialism sucks.
Workers in CA should demand pay cuts because they are much better off that way. What is wrong wit them? Just kick back part of your pay to your employer.
Absolutely not. The goal of raising the minimum wage is to incentivize employers to hire illegal aliens under the table.
An increase in wages does not guarantee an equivalent or better increase in productivity.
Small biz gets this.
Deep State does, too.
But Deep State doesn’t care.
At $20 bucks an hour, I can retire, take my Social Security monthly check, work as a part timer at Mickey D’s and not cross the tax threshold. Add in my VA disability and starting to take my monthly annuity checks and I can live very large.
Sounds like a plan.
It’s the politicians that are setting policy which arbitrarily overvalues a given position’s worth based on a “living wage” standard. A Job, or task is only worth so much based on the output produced and the ability to make some profit off of it.
Strip away all profit and the motive to produce is gone, or the price of the product becomes insanely high to compensate, thus depreciating the marketability.
I want to know how the owners of this “Bistro” voted. If they voted for the RATS they deserve what’s coming to them.
All restaurant costs are going up. Labor for some reason is treated differently. If wages go up 10% it is an existential crises and the business is going to go under? I call BS.
Labor is different because of productivity.
From 7.35/hour to 20/hour is a hell of a lot more than 10%. Even from 16/hour to 20/hour (what CA is experiencing here) is more than 10%.
If a job isn’t worth 20/hour to the employer, it simply doesn’t make sense to pay that much to an employee. The state is forcing the issue regardless of the reality of the situation.
Labor, whether skilled or unskilled has a finite level of worth to an employer, plus there is competition in the marketplace for good employees in both realms. After a point, an employee or job seeker can price themselves out of the market all on their own and find that they need to learn a new trade/pursue a new career if they want to garner better wages. That, or they have to settle.
That’s just the way the market works.
Unless you are a fan of price and wage controls and arbitrary limits on how you do business.
You keep posting that same nonsense on every thread related to this subject. Why don’t you tell us about YOUR experience in running YOUR restaurant?
Sweet Lady Jane, a chain of bakeries closed all their doors in California on 1/1/24. Many of the responses are from dumbf**ks saying they were terrible people, if they can’t pay living wages then they shouldn’t be in business, selfish, etc. etc. Some are trying to explain the economics and reality of owning such a company in Cali and folks won’t have it. They got what they voted for!
He’s a union man. They like minimum wage to go as high as possible as that’s used to justify their own wages to be much higher.
Funny. No one caught the irony of this guy being named Che. He’s hardly like his namesake.
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