Welcome to the age of robot technologies where the minimum wage law is bypassed for automated fast food restaurants where you order by tap screen, insert your debit card and the robots will make your food to your order with perhaps one or two “managers” on hand in case ingredients run out or the conveyor belt gets jammed.
You can pay two fast-food “technicians” $20 hour and the rest of the jobs have been lost to robot technology. Take that, unions!
Oh goody a die in..hopefully they will actually ya know, starve instead of what the Palestinians do when they do a “die in” and sneak food in and say “Yeah Im starving”
How is anyone supposed to pay employees 15$ an hour when they generate less than 15$ an hour? Is there some sort of magic involved? Please tell me so I can pay myself $1000 an hour.
It’s a feature, not a bug!
That is probably why every Dunkin Donuts I’ve been in lately is owned by someone named “Patel” or similar.
If one’s family runs the place from kitchen to cashier, they need not be paid at all.
Hard to compete with that...
They didn’t need all those eateries anyway. Each city just needs a few government run restaurants with workers making good salaries and full benefits.
It will be better food at a better price.
The Affordable Food Act, coming soon!
“unintended consequences”
Sorry, but they are intended.
The consequences are foreseeable, foreseen, and therefore intended.
He that wills the end wills the means.
More jobs lost, the more they claim more socialism is needed.
It’s a racket.
the A team I love it when a plan comes together../not
From SF to Reno is about 250 miles, the same from LA to Quartzsite, AZ, and from San Diego to Yuma, AZ.
So if you want a nice dinner, hop a plane and fly to Nevada or Arizona. While you’re there, you can buy duty free cigarettes, have goose pate with your dinner, and have your gay kids receive therapy to make them straight again.
Wow, who could have predicted this?
Most of us know not to drop a radio into the bathtub while we’re in it. Liberals have to experience it for themselves before they’ll believe it’s not just a trick by the man to keep us all down. And then they still learn nothing.
That's a shame. Dishwasher, busboy, and line cook or prep assistant (VERY different from chef when I did it!) may not take much education, but they are great entry-level jobs that teach you a lot. I cannot imagine a better way to learn to be prompt, work hard, and value a good job than to start in one of those low skill positions.
No, you can't "support a family" on what a busboy is worth. However, you aren't supposed to still be a busboy by the time you have a family. What's really difficult is learning to earn a living that will support a family, without an opportunity to start in an entry-level position. Those who start with the basic work skills will be fine, but the rest will be unemployed for life. I suspect that is the outcome democrats are hoping for.
Lieberal politician hacks don’t care about facts and history of results. They will raise minimum wages come hell or high water because it’s the leftist way and they are the heroes to the downtrodden. That some businesses close and many lose their jobs is of no concern. It’s just collateral damage that they ignore and their cushy govt jobs are safe so long as enough dimbulb voters who lean DemoRat keep them in power. Hello Venezuela on the Pacific.
libtards will blame the increase in unemployment on the evil restaurant owners for being too greedy, then blame Republicans for not wanting to increase welfare to support the unemployed
Out will go the fast food chop shops and the only meals to have will be fine dining...or take outs.
All going exactly as planned. Nothing except complete and utter control is the goal for these commies.
Which tells us nothing useful. The restaurant business in the Bay Area always has a lot of churn.
If you look at the (pretty good) EBT article referenced here, you'll see that a bigger problem than the minimum wage is low unemployment - 3.5%-4% - making it almost impossible to find quality workers.
It's true that increased labor cost is the killer, but it's more due to decreased supply than mandated wages.
There's no doubt that the minimum wage is a big problem in less well off parts of CA where unemployment is high, but it isn't the major factor in the Bay Area.
Does the wage law say the restaurants can’t raise their prices to compensate. What do they do when the price of meat or potatoes go up?
Seriously, who can make it in San Francisco on $15 per hour. The cheap ba$+ard legislators should have insisted on a minimum wage of $100,000 per year. If you buy their argument that raising the minimum wage won’t harm the economy, why not do it right?