Breaking News: Restaurants Closing All Over Seattle As $15 Minimum Wage Mandate Starts April 1st.

[Dana7360]

Four restaurants closing makes it easier for the other eateries to establish working prices that lead to a profit.

The restaurants in that article closed because of lack of business not because of wages.

The wage of 15 dollars an hour won't happen until 2017 at the earliest and tips are counted as wages so most restaurant employees won't see their wages change. Their tips already bring their wages way above 15 dollars an hour.

The small restaurants that closed wouldn't have seen that 15 dollars an hour until 2018.

That raise in the minimum wage had nothing to do with the closing of those restaurants.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Four restaurants closing makes it easier for the other eateries to establish working prices that lead to a profit.

^ Komrade Jake's Favorite Restaurant where they serve bread on a weekly basis.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Four restaurants closing makes it easier for the other eateries to establish working prices that lead to a profit.

Yes ... because EVERYONE loves going to a ultra crowded, overly priced restaurant.

Stay home then.

Many will do just that. Which will drop the income of the restaurants which leads to more closing which leads to less employees...

See the cycle here?

And the restaurants that can afford to pay will gain customers, and then have to hire more staff. Or they will raise prices, which people will pay because the ones with lower prices are now out of business. Got it now?

You do realize going out to eat is a luxury right? The higher the prices go the smaller the customer base becomes. The high end places will not grow, they can't. You can't push everyone from eating McDonalds into going to a steak house and you sure as hell aren't going to get any customers at McDonalds at steak house prices.

 

[boedicca]

Four restaurants closing makes it easier for the other eateries to establish working prices that lead to a profit.

The restaurants in that article closed because of lack of business not because of wages.

The wage of 15 dollars an hour won't happen until 2017 at the earliest and tips are counted as wages so most restaurant employees won't see their wages change. Their tips already bring their wages way above 15 dollars an hour.

The small restaurants that closed wouldn't have seen that 15 dollars an hour until 2018.

That raise in the minimum wage had nothing to do with the closing of those restaurants.

Fox Butterfield, is that you?

 

[HenryBHough]

Mike, if there is a utility post within walking distance of your computer you'd make better use of your time by explaining economic reality to it than to The Great American Vandalizer of Prostitutes (he who brags he loves to "Paint My Ho").

 

[OKTexas]

Four restaurants closing makes it easier for the other eateries to establish working prices that lead to a profit.

Yes ... because EVERYONE loves going to a ultra crowded, overly priced restaurant.

Stay home then.

Many will do just that. Which will drop the income of the restaurants which leads to more closing which leads to less employees...

See the cycle here?

And the restaurants that can afford to pay will gain customers, and then have to hire more staff. Or they will raise prices, which people will pay because the ones with lower prices are now out of business. Got it now?

Or they take a few extra minutes and go outside the city. That's exactly what I would do.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Four restaurants closing makes it easier for the other eateries to establish working prices that lead to a profit.

Yes ... because EVERYONE loves going to a ultra crowded, overly priced restaurant.

Stay home then.

Many will do just that. Which will drop the income of the restaurants which leads to more closing which leads to less employees...

See the cycle here?

And the restaurants that can afford to pay will gain customers, and then have to hire more staff. Or they will raise prices, which people will pay because the ones with lower prices are now out of business. Got it now?

You do realize going out to eat is a luxury right? The higher the prices go the smaller the customer base becomes. The high end places will not grow, they can't. You can't push everyone from eating McDonalds into going to a steak house and you sure as hell aren't going to get any customers at McDonalds at steak house prices.

There is some of that but why I want ten times as many restaurants that all pay five bucks an hour? China has tons of jobs, at a $1.50 a day. You gonna sign up for that?

We want the vast majority of jobs here to pay a living wage. If you can't do that, go out of business.

 

[Camp]

It’s evident that those Demoncrats don’t have a clue about economics. They never think of the consequences of their “feel good policies.” Neither do they have a clue how a business is run and operated. Seems to me this should be a litmus test for elected officials



Seattle eateries closing as 15 minimum wage approaches Hot Air

Whoever wrote your stupid article is full of garbage.

The 15 dollar an hour wage isn't fully implemented in April 2015. On April 1, 2015 minimum wage goes up another dollar to 10.32 an hour.

The full 15 dollar wage won't happen until 2017 at the earliest. That's just for businesses that have 500 or more employees. If they have less or offer health insurance it goes up in 2018.

One other fact that isn't in your article is that restaurants are able to count tips toward hourly pay. So most restaurants will not see wages increase because the workers tips are considered and those tips bring their wage above 15 dollars an hour.

The restaurants mentioned in your article don't have 500 or more employees so they won't see wages go up to 15 dollars an hour until 2018. That is IF they go up since tips are counted as part of wages and those tips bring wages above 15 dollars an hour.

You might want to actually learn about the law before you buy into lies.


Seattle raises minimum wage to $15 an hour

Yup, bull crap hack article put out by conservative blogger whose job it is to lie and misinform. Seattle has a significant number of openings and closings every year due to competition. The slugs that wrote this piece of crap a true hacks.

Here is what is really going on, written by the leading restaurant publication in Seattle. An objective trade perspective is probably more accurate than the folks pushing the political agenda.

seattlemag.com/article/why-are-so-many-seattle-restaurants-closing-lately

 

[bodecea]

If these are junk food restaurants (which we know the RWrs love) they may get ugly (uglier).

 

[HenryBHough]

Only in a welfare state is a person better off having no income than being paid $7.25/hour.

Maybe that's why all the outcry for businesses to shut down - so we can have millions more $0/hour workers.

 

[jknowgood]

Four restaurants closing makes it easier for the other eateries to establish working prices that lead to a profit.

Yep working prices, will lead to the fifteen dollar an our salary to be obsolete. Then a majority of workers will be making minimum wage. Instead of the few who do now.

 

[Steve_McGarrett]

If you can't afford to pay you staff a living wage then you shouldn't be in business in the first place.

If we create tons of jobs, but they all pay a buck an hour, that doesn't help anyone but the capitalists who get rich paying jack-shit to their employees.

You lack economic insight and the overall picture of what is taking place.

 

[jillian]

It’s evident that those Demoncrats don’t have a clue about economics. They never think of the consequences of their “feel good policies.” Neither do they have a clue how a business is run and operated. Seems to me this should be a litmus test for elected officials



Seattle eateries closing as 15 minimum wage approaches Hot Air

well, if 'hot air' says so.

 

[Steve_McGarrett]

 

[Steve_McGarrett]

Funny thing is, there is a chain that averages $15 an hour for their employees, it is called In-N-Out burger, mostly in California but now up and down the west coast and inland.

How can they afford it? They keep their costs low, their menu options minimal, and deliver pretty good food. On the flip side, their menu prices are also relatively low compared to other chains.

Thing is, up until now, by offering higher wages than competitors, they were able to maintain not only employee loyalty, but encourage hard work for that money. The customer benefited, the employees benefited, and the company benefited.

Now, by artificially raising the tide of wages, they will strip out much of that ethic that In-N-Out has been able to maintain by eliminating their ‘higher than average’ wages and making it equal with the clock puncher at McDonalds who could really care less what you buy, what they do, and even if you get your order.

And that's going to hit restaurants hard. Chain restaurants will simply have more clock punchers, places that offered higher wages likely won't be able to raise them much higher - why work hard for $17 an hour when you can slug along at $15? Traditional restaurants will likely have to cut down kitchen staff - eliminating thousands of prep kitchen assistants and simplifying menus, and server staff will have to pick up more of the slack, as many busboy positions will be eliminated as well.

In the end, what the people of Seattle will get is probably worse service, fewer menu choices, fewer options to eat at, and lose tens of thousands of jobs. It'll be an absolute boom to the kitchen food supply companies, as restaurants turn to more pre-prepared food to serve as they can no longer process fresh foods into meals, and it will be an absolute boom to food borne illness, as all these cuts mean more exposure of food to contamination from tables being cleaned by servers, food left on tables longer, kitchen staff filling in for busboys, etc.

So yes, the dream of a $15 an hour food service job is obtainable on the open market, but by making the market change, they eliminate the rewards of hard work. They hurt local farms which will find less of a market for their raw foods, they hurt the currently employed by making their services too expensive, they hurt the food options through simplified menus and more reliance on food service companies, all so they can feel better about paying more for the same food.

I sometimes wish balloting wasn't secret. I'd love to see a $30 surcharge on every bill given to a voter for this deal, since even with the higher wages, the servers deserve more, and they should pay that extra. Maybe the restaurant could split that surcharge with staff and lower the bills of those who didn't vote for this idiocy.

 

[francoHFW]

Hater dupes think doubling pay for workers means doubling prices, but since payroll is only 20% of a business, it only raises prices by a fifth- while giving society healthy demand and happy workers. So dumb, chumps of greedy idiot billionaires...

The US is only a "welfare state" when Pubs wreck the economy, and society, AGAIN, as the always do. see sig.

 

[DriftingSand]

Four restaurants closing makes it easier for the other eateries to establish working prices that lead to a profit.

Yes ... because EVERYONE loves going to a ultra crowded, overly priced restaurant.

Stay home then.

Will do!! Why pay $25.00 for a burger when I can make a better one in my own kitchen.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

The tunnel vision of left wingers never ceases to amaze me. In their zeal of screeching that a waitress should be paid 15 bucks an hour they can't see thee whole picture. How many other people are going to lose their jobs when they're less restaurants to service? The food wholesale rep, the truck driver that delivered it, the secretary who did thee billing. Support companies will shrink as well as the restaurant numbers.

 

[westwall]

Four restaurants closing makes it easier for the other eateries to establish working prices that lead to a profit.

Ummmm, you're forgetting the part where the patrons will be required to pay 15 bucks for what was once a 8 dollar burger. They will simply go to the next city where the idiots haven't passed their stupid law and buy their meals there.

Truly jake, are you even capable of thinking? Even a little bit?

 

[JakeStarkey]

Westwall, we are glad you are back.

You re-establish the basement for stupidity on the Board. Every time someone lowers the bar, I know you will be able to get under it.

Don't eat there if you don't want to.