Posted on 05/24/2015 6:33:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Get ready for completely automated fast food restaurants.
In my area the only restaurants that seem to have employees “on the books” are chains; it seems any family-owned restaurant is staffed almost exclusively with illegal aliens. An American greets you and another rings you up; those are the only English speakers in the place.
New wage will be ZERO for those who can’t find work.
Businesses will close. People will lse their jobs. Liberals will eat in the restaurants that didn’t close. And they will feel good about the great work they did.
The elites are unaffected. A $200 or $500 per person tab is all the same to them. That a mom and pop restaurant goes under as a result. What do the elites care; they don’t eat at those sorts of places.
The self-entiltled liberal jerks put themselves out of work by making demands that defied logic and reasoning and now rget’re getting what they deserve. I feel better already
These business owners are stupid for accepting the premise that “we all need to do something about paying a higher wage.”
Typical shared sacrifice horse vomit. It is not the business owner who has to worry about the needs of its workers outside of the workplace. If the worker is still struggling, that’s their problem, not the owner.
These owners don’t need to explain anything to the LA city council or join in some ridiculous roundtable that does nothing but promote the leftist agenda. Simply close your business and relocate if possible, and deprive the city and state of sales tax revenue.
Liberals think they can just mandate something and that only positive things happen. When something happens because of the law of unintended consequences, they always manage to look surprised and blame someone else.
The real minimum wage is $0.00.
They tried completely robotic fast food places years ago. After a very brief novelty wore off, the public lost interest. To make matters worse, the robots maintenance and restaurant cleaning required so much labor that it was just cheaper to hire people.
Bingo.
The premise is wrong. Any business owner should see that and say that. The business determines what it can afford to pay to each individual on staff.
Pretending that government ought to set the wages — in some sort of “reasonable” manner — is pure idiocy.
I think this will be an interesting experiment. Most of the people who live and/or work in LA should be able to leave the city to go to a restaurant in a neighboring city, instead of paying the markedly higher cost of eating in LA.
Huh? Why should California interfere with (or even care) how tips are distributed?
Oh, wait. I forgot. It's California. Every little aspect of every little thing has to be regulated.
True. Since LA residents generally own cars, they're, unlike their NYC counterparts, not stuck with restaurants accessible by mass transit.
The minimum wage for restruant workers in Texas is $2.13
https://www.google.com/search?q=waiter+minimum+wage&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
In Seattle, and now Los Angeles, it will soon be $15. Therefore I simply WILL NOT TIP in either city. I’ll print up some business cards explaining why and leave them in my check.
I’m still trying to figure out how mere city council members think that they have the authority to order THEIR EMPLOYERS, the citizens of their city, to pay their other employees any amount not agreed to by the employer and employee. If you agree to mow my lawn for $10.00, and I agree to pay you that amount....why should anyone else in the world be able to change that agreement?????????????
The left knows fully well what they are doing....creating more dependents on government.
Let LA burn.
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