get this............a few weeks ago local am radio interviewed a culinary chef for the Biltmore here.....now this chef is supposedly the best in town
so the issue was minimum wage
the radidio host ax’d how much a culinary grad can expect to make to start
answer...8.50 an hour til ya advance to veggie preparer which pays 9 an hour
then watched and successful, you advance to sauces and it pays 10 an hour
when ya finally get a shift able to prepare all orders ya get 14 an hour
the chef said if minimum goes to 15 per
he would lose help for the obvious reason flippin burgers pays more than a workin culinary degree
A person’s labor (what they do or what they know) has some natural economic “value”.
Minimum wage laws create an unnatural condition on the supply vs. demand equation of labor.
It has always struck me as bizarre that if you thought it was worth $3/hour
to keep the floors or the parking lot of your store clean,
and I was willing and able to do perform that task for $3/hour,
that it is against federal freekin’ law for you and I to come to that agreement.