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 Surprise-San Francisco Restaurant Workers! Minimum Wage Hike is Killing Restaurants (12)

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Surprise-San Francisco Restaurant Workers! Minimum Wage Hike is Killing Restaurants


If you’re a Leftist in San Francisco or Oakland, California (highly likely), you probably cheered as the city implemented a Minimum  Wage Hike last summer raising the wage to $13 an hour, soon to be $14 an hour this July 1, and $15 an hour on July 1, 2018. On the other hand, if you were a restaurant owner, you probably felt your heart sink when the decision was announced, as it seemed highly likely that you could be run out of business by the hike. You would have been right.

In the winter of 2016-17, 64 restaurants around the Bay Area have closed and these weren’t your garden-variety restaurants that were parts of national chains; they closed all over the area, from Berkeley to Hayes Valley to Oakland to the Embarcadero to Inner Richmond to the Marina to the financial district.

Progressive policy again fails !!!!!!!!!! LMMFAO 

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It's not a terrible surprise. Anyone with half a brain could tell that any small stores and restaurants like mom and pop ones wouldn't be able to pay such an exorbitant amount. Most large establishments are just firing people to reduce staff, reducing hours which makes the employee quit or moving to a more mechanized service where machines do the work instead. It's heart breaking to see the small businesses be forced out.

outlaw60(15368) Clarified
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Why would Progressives in Looney Land push the minimum wage issue on mom and pop companies ? Raising the minimum wage is what Progressives want right ?

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The problem isn't raising minimum wage. It's that the cost of living in the Bay as a whole is so high there aren't enough skilled restaurant workers who can afford to live there to keep a restaurant boom going.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/01/24/whats-behind-the-spate-of-recent-bay-area-restaurant-closures/amp/

Conservative news source are shameless in their spin.

outlaw60(15368) Disputed
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LMMFAO the links i attached are Conservative news sources ! Didn't know San Fran was Conservative but you aren't a PROGRESSIVE are you !

Grenache(6053) Disputed
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A link to the ordinance and a list of what closed. Neither say minimum wage is what closed them. Only my link discussed the why. You were sloppy again.

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Hello o:

I'm IN business.. Costs ALWAYS go up. Wages are just another cost. When my costs go up, my prices go up. My customers are willing to pay higher prices because I have a quality product.. In this environment, some business's fall by the wayside.. Business is HARD.

excon

outlaw60(15368) Disputed
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Minimum wage hikes are another Progressive failure LMMFAO !

outlaw60(15368) Clarified
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Now what state do you operate a business in ? Tell me all about the quality product you produce !

excon(18260) Clarified
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Hello o:

I make nunya's.. The best in town.........................

excon