When you replied to this comment:
“They should also pass price caps! Why not bring in utopia at full speed.”
You were replying to a comment that I had made. The other poster used my comment as a foundation for their own comments.
Then you called the comment naive, so yes you did “infer that I was ignorant.”
“Do you understand the concept of profitability?”
Yes, very much so.
“I paid my employees as well as I could sometimes to my detriment since I had to answer to the Owner/Operator.”
And here you prove my ACTUAL point. Your original post, that drew my sarcastic response, was implying that you were supportive of the California legislative action to increase minimum wage. Now, as you admit here, this will only harm the profitability for the owners of the business. So, in order to remain in business then the owner MUST increase prices or lay-off employees or both.
So, before the dictating of a wage by any state government, the owner and manager of a restaurant are free to pay a wage that they deem necessary to attract the appropriate labor for their market, and to let that cost flow through the pricing. If $10 an hour was not sustainable as a pass through cost to the customers while you were in the industry, then it is not sustainable today.
My point in the sarcastic reply to you was that your implication that the minimum wage increase would somehow allow for the restaurant to attract better employees is very disconnected from reality.
Wow you got that I support minimum wage increases from what I posted? That’s pretty good, I am sure that all of my past employees that I lectured about the negatives of their minimum wage increases would be amused . oh and the part where I pointed out that an increased minimum wage would result in less hours for employees, less staff on shift and increased work load must be the part that clinched for you that I was pro minimum wage increase. As far as my responding to your comment, which was a response to another’s, well sorry Mea Culpa!