Seattle, like Portland and Frisco and nearly every large liberal city has drug rehab treatment places ALL over. Too many foks doing squat with their hand out waiting for welfare.
Also gee, I'd thought that all these good communists in Seattle would be standing in line to pay extra to support a business which paid their workers $15 per hour. Yes I call them communists! I was outside Starbucks in Pike Place Market, the wife wanted a Starbuck's Pike cup and there were a group playing good old commie work songs by the Starbuck's door. Thought it was ironic that commies would be playing commie music outside a capitalistic enterprise.
Seattle Soup Kitchens will take over ,LOL
Everybody knows that anybody who creates a job for another human being is rich and has piles of money that they are just too greedy to share with their employees.
For them to run out on their responsibility to provide jobs for their faithful and loving employees just because they are forced to pay them a few more pennies is a crime.
When I visited my grandmother in Winston-Salem decades ago, I remember when she took me out for dinner one night with some of her friends. The restaurant? As I recall, it was called "S & W". You walk in, pick up a tray, and go down the serving line, selecting your options. At the end, a cashier would tote up what was on your tray and that was what you paid. (No tip jar, as I recall.)
Fast-forward a few decades: a night out with friends in Mountain View, CA, was at a place called "Togo's": you ordered your custom submarine sandwich, then played 20 questions with the additions. At the end of the line, your sandwich went one way while your money went another. Drinks? The soda fountain is right behind you, sir. Plus, you bussed your own table.
There is a reason our institutions have cafeteria lines: it's cheaper to operate. Schools for all ages, nursing homes, hospital cafeterias, even company lunchrooms. Soon, that's what will be left. Sit-down restaurants will fade as the new mininum-wage mania spreads across this great land of ours.
I predict one thing: as restaurants turn to "the food line" there will be a growth in delivery services: not everyone likes to cook, and having the food come to you may be worth some money. Instead of just Chinese and pizza, soon you may be able to order a steak dinner to be delivered. Already, many of the better restaurants are doing a brisk "take-out" business. Some will go exclusively that way.
Perhaps the return of automats is in our future.
You would need someone preparing the food, someone for cleaning and that is about it.
With computer controlling things, you could even have fast food prepared as ordered. This would insure freshness as well as cut down on waste.
Many low skilled jobs have been lost because of “minimum wage”
Before minimum wage, anyone willing to work could find a job. It paid what the owner thought it was worth.
With minimum wage, when what the owner is willing to pay to have something done is less than what the government mandates he either does it himself or lets it go.
Minimum wage encourages investing in labor saving devices.
Central government control is slowing killing this once great nation all in the name of “compassion”.
Stuff like this drops the purchasing power of the dollar because all it does is add to inflation.
Let see how long this will take to isolate Seattle then watch it dry up. As city fathers complain about nearby communities profiting from their collective stupidity. Or complain about an underground economy that springs up like mushrooms run mostly by illegals and goes out of control.
Won’t be just restaurants it’s the tourist industry as a whole. Kiss the convention business goodbye. Nobody will want to go there because its too expensive and not worth it. If your a Senior living there you’re so screwed.
Liberals & Math = Oil & Water
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I think the profit margin for sit-down chain restaurants is in the neighborhood of 12%+. I’ve heard that number in the past, and it made sense given that their were stockholders to pay. So, my sense is that they’re wrong on the 4% profit margin, but even if the restauranteur was pulling down 70 grand, that’s not a lot of money. It’s even less if taken down to 40 or 50 grand.
That won’t happen.
They reduce operating hours to their most productive hours, trim staff, trim menu, and go for less expensive ingredients. If someone’s bills are set based on a 70 grand income, they can’t shift down to 50,000 in a short period of time...if they ever can.
Between this and Obamacare, these businesses are pretty much screwed. But hey, that doesn’t stop the liberal march over the cliff and into the ocean.
If only these greedy capitalist pigs of business owners would make less profit...
I hope they all go out of business.
But the laws of the United States continue to frustrate this Communist ambition, so they turn to these types of minimum wage polices and labor laws to try to drive as many of us out of business as possible.
Where are people to work, you ask? To a Leftist, when Utopia arrives everyone will be paid by the government. So they aren't especially concerned with whether people are able to earn money - they consider themselves to be liberators, freeing oppressed employees from the awful realities of capitalism. If the former employees need money, there is always some sort of social program out there to support them until The Revolution comes.
Hope the Stalinists enjoy their $50 Lil’ Krystals.
So the typical owner was only making $28k a year. Now with the $15/hr minimum wage, the employees will make more than the owner. Only a liberal thinks that is good.
Let’s say I own a grocery store and I pay my entry level, a first time job holder or part time person only able to work a few hours per week and not interested in progressing or taking on additional responsibilities; the inexperienced cashiers and stock clerks who I have to invest a lot time and money to train BTW, the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour to start but now I have to pay them $15 per hour. I pay more based on performance and longevity and I pay for instance a more experience cashier or stock clerk, someone who is a shift leader, a go to person, but someone with no supervisory or management yet, but a person due to their experience who prior to the minimum wage increase, got $10 per hour and say an entry level first time shift supervisor getting paid $14 per hour, someone who may be a person who may be someone who could advance further, I’m now going to have to pay them both more than the entry level person who they are leading and or supervising and so on up the salary chain.