Is this a trick question? It’s going to f*** everyone except certain protected classes.
Forget brick-and-mortar - I’m going to register “KamalaGlamour.com” and sell t-shirts with airbrushed photos of our New Queen to little Leftoids with more money than sense. :)
Not enough votes there to make a difference.
Dems hate small business anyway. Most conservative, too independent. They want them to all go out of business.
Hi!
A restaurant owner can expect a number of things.
First, the minimum salary for a non-exempt worker will go up — north of $50k for sure, maybe well north of that. Unless you want to pay your assistant managers $55k or $60k salaries, you will have to make them hourly and pay them overtime over 40 hours a week.
Second, the tip credit will be gone in the states where it remains. Everyone makes full cash minimum wage regardless of tips.
Third, a $15 national minimum wage indexed to inflation.
Fourth, some rules or even laws against schedule flexibility and part-time schedules - owners will be expected to offer predictable and high-hours schedules.
Fifth, whatever little enforcement on immigration there is will be gone - no eVerify, every I-9 document has to go unquestioned, etc.
Sixth, and a bit paradoxically, expect civil rights enforcement that will have a significant “black vs. brown” component (already a big part of manual labor civil rights enforcement now). In other words, restaurants will be required to hire illegal alien Mexicans who can’t speak English, but also punished for not hiring blacks to work in kitchens because they can’t speak Spanish.
Seventh, some regulations that it will make it easier for restaurant workers to unionize. Whether they can make it easy ENOUGH actually to get unions organized is a more open question, but the rules will certainly change in that direction.
They’ll be screwed.
If the dems take the White House and any sizable portion of the House and Senate, then expect the economic downturn to happen IMMEDIATELY.
People will be bailing financially and the economy will crash and burn like the Hindenburg.
A woman from my area moved back home and started a niche restaurant. She did ok pre covid but did not set the world on fire and she is an outstanding chef having worked in many big city restaurants. Now closed for good.
She mentioned it is very hard to compete with national chains when the they have buying power for food purchases. They sell particular meats for less than what she was buying it for.
Great dishes only go so far. People watch their budget when they go out.
Of course this is regional. In NYC they will pay more for independent restaurants but not so much in flyover country.
Honestly, if you’re reliant on dine-in business to be profitable, I don’t think it matters who wins. You’re in serious jeopardy and should have an exit strategy ready to go.
Whereas, if you won a McDonalds or other fast food establishment you’re in very good shape...no matter who wins.
Who is going to be able to afford a restaurant meal much less be able to cook at home? Between taxes, regulations, and energy, costs alone Democrats are going to put the economy into a spiral. I don’t see the restaurant business, and many others making enough to survive.
Such businesses will also be at the mercy of the leftist thugs who as we see today in Democrat controlled cities are free to terrorize, and steal at will.
It isn’t going to be pretty if those leftist/Socialist/Communist bastards succeed in getting their way.
There weren’t a lot of restaurants behind the iron curtain.
It’s ok, we’ll all go to the ministry cafeteria and eat mystery meat stew and drink Victory Gin.
“Pay-to-Play”?
United DNC - CP USA Party Chairman reaction: “What is a restaurant?”
“”Expenses, costs, labor, food, hiring, training, payroll, health/fire/labor codes... “”
If the left wins all their elections, don’t mention those words to any of them as they are all foreign to them. Don’t have a clue...
One thing missed above, the Dem’s are promising a lot of “equal pay” legislation, putting the burdens on the business to prove the basis for any discrepancy in pay involving a protected class (basically everyone but white males.) This gives the protected classes a lot of leverage, fighting back will cost more than the demanded pay increases. Think two employees, one hard working, one lazy. You give the hard worker a raise as a result. The lazy one challenges getting lower pay, you now have to prove why to the satisfaction of the lazy one if that employee is of a protected class. Think equality of outcome, not equality of opportunity.
Learn to cook.
Affordable restaurants will be gone.
The minimum wage rage has already made a huge impact on the restaurants in Seattle. If the leftists don’t listen to their comrades who own restaurants, the industry will be gone.
In short, you’re phooked!
All small businesses will be forked.
Not just food establishments.
Biden wants more illegals, so restaurant owners will be overjoyed.
we have a front seat on what’s happening in NYC, living 15-20 miles away in Bergen County NJ. The idea of 100 employees or less is unrealistic-—MOST restaurants in NY have WAY less employees, and the smaller the restaurant the harder hit they were. While I haven’t been in the City since last March JUST BEFORE the lockdown and all the restrictions were imposed, I can’t wait to get in and do a tour , to see for myself. It will be much easier that way to get an intuitive grasp of the situation, and determine whether it “feels” as bad as it now seems, because factoring in everything and knowing the talents of the Mayor to take absolutely the WORST course of action/inaction, the one that damages the most people, I see no hope.There are still too many cross-currents working against the city right now, with no sign of anything improving-—the bigger restaurateurs have pretty much decided that there is now NO reason to even try to do business here anymore, since it was nearly insupportable even in the best of times, counting on hype and the ruling zeitgeist of trendiness to see it through and make it profitable.It’s hard to believe but I think NYC will start to take on the complexion of a ghost town very soon. Books will be written about this unprecedented phenomenon. Interestingly , that OTHER notorious ghost town called Detroit, held up pretty well under both the Covid madness and the Floyd violence virus. Decent leadership with a respectful approach to law enforcement and a population that will take measures to prevent it from slipping and plunging back into the horrible old days is what it needed and got.It’s slowly but surely clawing its way back to livability and “re-development”.
At this point, subtleties don’t matter. We’re past that.
We have crazy leftist racists demanding that people give up their houses - because they’re white. We have a MSM that ignored the execution of a 5 year old child. We have a nation in which there are many who could care less that our own FBI and CIA tried to orchestrate a coup. We have openly Marxist Congressional office holders. We, and much of the world was very, very likely just victimized by an infectious agent that was the product of inappropriate research in Communist China - some of which was paid for by US taxpayer dollars (i.e. NIH grants).
We have looting in our largest major cities and no consequences for the looters -with to date only scattered exceptions. We have mobs toppling statues of American historical figures - including today George Washington.
This post could go on and on, but the point is clear. We have to fight, and fight very, very hard to keep America. It’s well beyond ‘give an inch and they’ll take a mile’. We given them miles, and now they want the entire nation.
Fight, or lose everything.