Upstate is screwed as well. And we didn’t vote for this. We’re getting the hikes, just not as much as fast. Small restaurants are dropping like flies. Chains charge too much. We’re just eating out way less. Saving us a ton of money, but God help folks who need/want a job in the restaurant biz.
Yeah, New York was one of the reasons fast food joints, at least in New York, so not have a “dollar menu” anymore. They have been replaced with “value menus” where something that the same restaurant will charge $1.00 for in Ohio costs is $1.50-2.00 here.
Doesn’t affect the rich liberals at all. Either in paying $10.00 for a $7.00 Chipotle bowl, or having their kid fired, or their wife moved from full time to part-time, as the business owner tries to absorb some of the labor costs.
“Upstate is screwed as well. And we didn’t vote for this. We’re getting the hikes, just not as much as fast. Small restaurants are dropping like flies. Chains charge too much. We’re just eating out way less. Saving us a ton of money, but God help folks who need/want a job in the restaurant biz.”
I was in a McDonald’s recently, and not even in a $15 minimum wage territory. I just said, SCREW IT (regardless of my tag line) when I saw their prices, and ended up spending $1.60 for a gas station hot dog, which was damn good, by the way.
I think one difference that those on the Left don’t consider is that the REAL COMPETITION for restaurant food is not other restaurants, but rather people simply staying home and cooking. The restaurant owners know that FULL WELL, but the leftists simply think that if every restaurant is more expensive, then nothing bad happens...but the truth, of course, is that there will be many shutting down, until a new equalibrium is reached, where the Middle Class eat out much less, if at all, and the Upper Middle Class also cut back significantly.
I was in a ‘second world’ type of country. Modern place but the locals are not very well paid. One of the guys that I was with asked them if they eat out much, considering that the food there was excellent and lots of choices. The response: “Are you kidding, on our salaries?”. That’s where we are heading.