I was talking to my doctor last month. He said that the taxes and fees in Alabama make it cheaper for them to shut down early one day a week than to run a full 40 hour a week operation. They can’t make a profit if they operator more than 35 hours a week.
Being a small business owner i hired my first employee 10 years ago. I try to explain to people who don’t have employees that for every dollar I paid my employee I spent another dollar just for taxes and paperwork.