Posted on 10/25/2017 2:48:02 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
Launched in 2015, the fair-wage pizza shop will close at the end of the year, according to Bing Broderick, executive director for the nonprofit Haley House, which oversees the shop. While popular, the shop is not breaking even financially, which has put stress on the wider nonprofit organization.
“I don’t think anyone is looking at it as a failure,” said Luther Pinckney, a team leader at Dudley Dough, which is in the Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building. “It’s an experiment, and some very good things came out of that, such as skill-building for staff and being in this building at this time of gentrification and change in this community.”
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” “I don’t think anyone is looking at it as a failure,” said Luther Pinckney,”
are you retarded?
Boston Globe / snort...
Communist and democrats (same thing). Waaay to stupid to understand business.
>>“I don’t think anyone is looking at it as a failure,” said Luther Pinckney<<
Other than everyone.
I do. But then again, I am not a delusional liberal.
No money to pay the staff = FAILURE!..............
SJW’s value system:
Team building is what counts, even if the business fails.
That must be what the French military told themselves when the Germans ran over them in days.
Skill building for a pizzeria? Lol!
” “I don’t think anyone is looking at it as a failure,” said Luther Pinckney,”
are you retarded?
The usual socialist disease - ran out of other people’s money to spend.
LOL
GEEE! Really? Ya Don't Say.....
And it was such a great idea......
“Fair wage”,presumably,meaning that you pay everyone at least $25/hr.That,of course,would mean that just to break even they’d have to charge $22 for a small pepperoni pizza and $30 for a small mushroom and sausage pizza.
They are in a building in a neighborhood undergoing gentrification. They made money in real estate and wrote off the losses on the business.
One of the commenters on the messageboard brought up a great point. If a non-profit with all this community support cannot make a “fair wage” business work, how the hell are the small businesses who have no such support supposed to make $15/hr work in a for-profit model???
I’m guessing his bank views it as a failure.
>> It’s an experiment, and some very good things came out of that.
I agree with the above, but perhaps not with all of his conclusions.
I used to judge a lot of science fairs. Kids whose experiments didn’t turn out as they expected seemed to think the experiment was a failure. If you expect an experiment to prove that X is true and the experiment “fails”, it might be that you have proven that X is false - or at least you have gathered some evidence pointing in that direction.
So perhaps the experiment provided yet more evidence that the idea behind it (socialism) has some serious flaws. Or that socialists are really, really, really slow learners.
“It’s an experiment, and some very good things came out of that, such as skill-building for staff and being in this building at this time of gentrification and change in this community.”
Then charge the staff for education/training, and for historical preservation.
They didn’t need an experiment to learn that socialism doesn’t work.
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