$15 an hour, figure a pizza slice costs $2 bucks so you would have to sell 7 slices an hour or one every 8 minutes just to pay the help, and on top of that you would have to make money to pay the store rent, then insurance then money for yourself to pay your rent and support a family. Oh yes, I can definitely see how $15 an hour would work. And don’t tell me: Millionaire liberals push this crap. Millionaires who really never worked real jobs or ran a real business in their lives.
If you took most minimum wage employees and gave them an eight-hour introduction to the cost angle to the operation....I think most would stand there in shock. Most have no idea what the rent costs for the operation. No one could make a reasonable guess on utilities (pizza ovens run continually, thus sucking huge electrical costs). If you make deliveries, there’s some cost there. Toss in insurance and advertising. If you run some franchise operation, then you have eight to ten percent of your profit going out the door. Just two or three ‘bad’ deliveries a week could turn off potential customers and screw-up your long-term profit margin. For $15 to work...an average pizza would have to be at least 20-percent more than it is currently. Who the heck would pay $14 for a medium pizza?
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.