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 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.
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.
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?????????????
Let LA burn.
We’re swimming in guilty liberals out here so this is no big surprise.
I used to think Appomattox was a good thing but I never saw this coming.
Liberals are not reality based people. If they grasped math and economics, they wouldn't be Liberals.
This is really a fairly positive development on balance.
First, fast food restaurants will automate. Machines don’t earn a wage.
Second, family restaurants and those that cater to the middle class will close. What will take their place are unlicensed, untaxed eateries on the low end. Such as food trucks. On the higher end, dinner clubs where you eat in a home and have a really nice fixed menu dinner will become more widespread. Also unlicensed, unregulated, and untaxed.
The same sort of thing will happen in other industries, with the key difference being that any remaining businesses that can move, will move.
So the leftists strangle their own taxation stream, expand undocumented businesses, and cause more businesses to move to places where they’re decently treated. Some businesses will close which is of course sad, but many will reopen in some other form or fashion.
I bet many of the single business Restaurants there owned by immigrants from Asian and Latin America pay their employees in cash and off the books with no payroll taxes.
I recall going to China-town in NYC many times and not being charged NYC sales taxes in those Chinese Restaurants.
And it was cheap too compared to other Restaurants.
In a State where 70 thousand dollar houses any where else in the Country will cost you half a million bucks, would seem 15 dollars an hour is chicken feed...