Posted on 01/31/2019 7:08:03 AM PST by lowbridge
The result of the Fight for 15 movement in New York City has finally gone into effect. The minimum wage jumped by 15% in many cases, to $15 per hour this month. This mostly affects employers of lower skill level workers, particularly in the food service and beverage industries. And now that labor costs have risen, restaurants from fast food joints to upper-end fine dining establishments have raised their prices. As a result, some people have had to make adjustments in their budgets and lifestyles, going out to eat less often and bringing their own lunches to work.
As you might imagine, that’s not only been annoying for the customers. It’s impacting the restaurant business as well. (NY Post)
New York City’s hotly contested minimum wage increase to $15 — up from $13 or $13.50, depending on employer size — rolled out citywide at the start of the year. And although that’s good news for NYC restaurant servers, patrons are grumbling about its impact on menu prices at their favorite eateries.
Ahead of the wage hike, the NYC Hospitality Alliance conducted a survey of 574 local food establishments in late 2018. They found that 87 percent of respondents planned to increase menu prices this year to offset the minimum wage bump. True to their promise, the cost of food has risen at various spots around the city.
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Ok, by me.
LOL!
But our corrupt government meddles in the labor supply.
The only problem I have with machine picked fruit is the engineered tasteless hard fruit!
Their salaries are already built into the price so your original premise is ignorant in comparison to a government mandate that affects a type of labor cost ACROSS the board where the managers OR investors have no control over.
When the government artificially meddles with the amount of money that businesses are required to pay unskilled workers it accomplishes many bad things. One of the bad things is providing an incentive for unskilled laborers to cross our borders illegally to get the jobs. This is proven by decades of bad policy and tens of millions of illegal aliens who have saturated the low end of our labor market. If they all got booted out, the shortage of unskilled laborers would cause the market value of unskilled labor to go up... no minimum wage legislation needed.
Your reasoning abilities on this continue to baffle me, and your hatred and envy of the job providers who are still largely small business owners proves only that you are a socialist. Socialism is one of the leading causes of poverty in the world today. Socialist governments are corrosive to their own people and result in the government running amuck and killing millions of their own people. Take a trip to Venezuela and if you somehow make it back alive you can share your observations with the rest of us.
I have no hatred or envy just I am simply relaying my personal experiences with working for small businesses. I always did my best and gave it 100%. If you interpret that as some kind of hate that is your problem pal.
Socialists and communists want to set wages too. Well, The Chamber of Commerce does the same thing when they flood the labor market and bribe congress to keep the borders open and keep tariffs at historic lows. Same thing. I am trying to AVOID a socialist takeover.
I live in a flyover country population center. The going rate for house cleaners and yard people is $20+ per hour. The metro area is over 200K. Before the financial crisis hit, fast food workers started at $12. I am not sure what they are making now, but I doubt it is any less. For New York City, I can't imagine anybody working for less than $15 per hour unless they are total newbies. Rural areas don't command those types of pay. Waving a wand doesn't make it so.
Doesn’t make Free Republic look silly when they claim the sky is falling when Manhattan dish washers make $15.00/hr. Like they all fell off the turnip truck yesterday.
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Sounds like the smart thing to do in your area is to own a small business.
An easy way to get rich.
So why doesn't everyone do it?
I am glad they make money what I hate is the poor pitiful me BS routine.
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If she does not charge enough to cover her cost of labor, she goes out of business.
I can relate.
I grew up in semi-wilderness where the take from hunting and fishing added substantially to the family food supply.
We had half a mile of prime trout stream run through the family farm, and we started hunting by grabbing a rifle and walking out the door.
It is just not the same to plan a hunt months in advance, fly or drive hundreds of miles, and pay big bucks to do it.
There is an exquisite pleasure in providing food from the hunt, but when you rack up the expenses, it shows as a pretty expensive vacation.
You have to live next to good hunting and fishing to make it worthwhile.
Unless you live far, far, from other people, living off the land is a fantasy.
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Straw man argument. That is *not* what anyone is claiming.
People who claim that minimum wages just raise workers wages are making a silly claim.
Here is an article by Thomas Sowell on minimum wages. Curious what you think about it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3723580/posts
Thomas Sowell is free trader. I stay away from him.
Yeah.. I was wondering why it’s so expensive.. $174.99 on Amazon. The reviews rave about it, though. Sounds worth the price.
LOL indeed!
What’s her cost of labor?
It cannot be easily determined with the facts given.
Just because you cannot separate and identify a cost, does not mean it is not there or is not paid for.
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