Pending $15 minimum wage forces Seattle pizza shop to close

KPLC ^ | April 29, 2015

[FrdmLvr]

The director of Now Seattle, which rallied for the minimum wage, had no comment, only saying "Restaurants open and close all the time, for various reasons."

This reminded me of what Hillary said in 2008: "The ['Hillary Care'] plan prescribed some eye-popping maximum fines: $5,000 for refusing to join the government mandated health plan; $5,000 for failing to pay premiums on time; 15 years in prison for doctors who received ‘anything of value’ in exchange for helping patients short circuit bureaucracy; $10,000 a day for faulty physician paperwork; and $50,000 for unauthorized patient treatment. When told the plan could bankrupt small businesses, Mrs. Clinton said, 'I can’t be responsible for every under-capitalized small business in America'!" -- Tony Snow reporting on Hillary's health care plan

[FrdmLvr]

I don’t know where I got 2008 …I think it was 1992.

[I want the USA back]

That’s how it is in a business. You can’t argue with the bottom line. If your expenses are greater than your revenue, you lose money. Nothing can change that.

Business owners work long hours, and get paid only if there’s any money left over after paying employees, rent, taxes, fees and supplies.

[CMailBag]

“”Pretty soon they will pass another law forbidding businesses from closing due to wage increases. I’m only half joking.””

It’s the ‘Obama Way’..

[outofsalt]

A lot of folks point to the BS of, "raising wages for the poor" and fail to see that this is a campaign to devalue the Dollar.

Our debt is over $18,000,000,000,000. We can't pay that back so we must make that amount a pittance. So what if it destroys America? That works right into their plan.

[VRW Conspirator]

How dare them! A companies sole purpose is to provide a livable wage to it’s employees. Everybody knows that. /s

[Bulwyf]

It’s a shame something doesn’t happen to it.

I can’t believe they allowed that to be built and erected in a free country.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Restaurants will be the hardest hit in this. Typically, in a large metro area, new restaurants have a 50% attrition (closing) rate in their first six months. Then half of the remaining restaurants close within a year. So a 75% failure rate in one year.

So, if you like your restaurant, you better enjoy it while it lasts.

[vortec94]

I think I’ve read something like this. As stated up above “Directive 10-289”. Who is John Galt?

[Popman]

Where public officials, to appease union voters 'raise' minimum wages to 'help the working poor' which really is all aimed at raising union wages. Because if the little guys get a 40% raise, so should the public employee unions.

Many union contracts are tied to the minimum wage, Minimum wage goes up, so does the union wage...

Employers both public and private have no choice...

[MortMan]

One issue noted in the article is that the owner is a franchisee who has 2 years to reach $15. Her competition contains a good percentage of independents who have five years. Because she has a franchised shop, she will be at a competitive disadvantage for 3 years, which means she may well face 3 years of deficit.

That’s a hard pill to swallow for a small business.

[ExCTCitizen]

Dear Seattle suburbs... Want to get more taxes? Lower the minium wage to what is legal in Washington State, then invite Z pizza to open up. Z would win, by keeping her business open,you would win by having a tax paying business and Z's customers would win, by having Z open.

Of course, Z's owner must be a liberal, or she would think of that...The suburbs must be Liberals too, of they would.

[ExCTCitizen]

Liberals fault...😊

[ExCTCitizen]

That smug arrogant SOB is a typical Marxist.

[ExCTCitizen]

I charge 15/hour for some computer work. I guess if I was in Seattle I could charge 45/hr. Seattle is beautiful, especially the houseboats on Lake Washington.

[COBOL2Java]

Someone needs to do a fictional business introduction video of a little pizza shop and how this ‘cog’ fits into a business profile....surviving off marginal profits.

Public-school educated individuals, as well as liberal government leaders like those running Seattle, have a "Scrooge McDuck" understanding of business economics. They figure all profits are hoarded in a huge vault somewhere by greedy owners who refuse to "share". Ergo, a $15 minimum wage increase is no problem, and businesses that shut down are just doing it out of spite.

[Salgak]

Of course: Atlas is Shrugging. So Directive 10-289 isn't far behind. . .

[ExCTCitizen]

What Marxist put a statue of Lenin up? I guess the northeast isn’t as bad as Seattle, Hartford doesn’t have a Lenin statue.

[ExCTCitizen]

Bet they think Lenin was to conservative 😁.

[EDINVA]

“Restaurants open and close all the time, for various reasons.”

What a cavalier attitude for one who advocated for the increase that will leave most of those advocated for unemployed.