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.
Restaurant owners do it as a community service not expecting to be paid. They are happy to provide incomes and jobs for others, but are delighted when they sleep in homeless boxes with their families every night. That’s what it’s all about. None of that nasty profit motive going on there. These are pure people who are free of capitalist urges wanting only to feed the masses.