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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The real issue is how fast can they take the minimum wage to $15 in the rest of the state without causing major damage. All of NYC will be $15 by next year. Long Island and Westchester are at $12 and will be at $15 by Jan 1, 2022. The rest of the state is at $11.10 and will be at $12.50 by Jan 1, 2021. How fast it gets to $15 is yet to be determined.
The correct answer is, the labor costs are $0. She has no employees.
That is true.
I grew up on 40 acres just outside of town with cows, horses, pigs, chickens, geese, and various other farm animals. We had a creek with enough crawdads and fish to keep kids entertained, not to mention the swampy areas. So we had tree houses and “forts” on the ground built out of scrap lumber and brush where we would pretend we were living off the land, by eating berries and occasionally even frying fish or roasting some poor unfortunate little creature we caught or killed with our bb guns on a small fire.
These days we have deer that wander around our town that are tame from getting handouts and have lost their fear of people. You could easily coax them into your garage or the back of your house. All of our neighbors were very upset during bow hunting season a few years ago when some trespassing yahoo hit a big buck with an arrow that everyone had been feeding for years.
He would walk right up to people and eat out of their hand. The arrow didn't kill him. People caught a few glimpses of him with an arrow in his side for a few days but no one was able to catch him until he finally died from the infection. Killing the neighborhood mascott wasn't very sportsman like. They did catch the guy who did it, and he got a fine.
The correct answer is, the labor costs are $0. She has no employees.
I give up. Have a nice day!
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