Posted on 04/05/2015 8:13:57 AM PDT by Libloather
SEATTLE -- Reaction continues to pour in over Seattle's new minimum wage law. Some business owners in Seattle say the increase to $11 an hour will force them to make drastic changes.
Many in the local restaurant industry say the next few weeks and months will give them a better idea of the real impact under the new law. Some bosses have already been forced to make tough decisions to protect the bottom line. At Icon Grill in downtown Seattle, all employees will now only get one week of paid time off. Some employees who've worked at the restaurant for more than a decade will lose three weeks of vacation.
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Some restaurants are even considering hiring fewer servers and using tablets for customers to place orders at tables, according to restaurant industry officials.
(Excerpt) Read more at krem.com ...
Kshama Sawant, the self-proclaimed Marxist city counsel member who pimped the idea, is jazzed.
Seattle workers hail 'historic moment' as city sets course for $15 minimum wage
“This is a historic moment,” she told the Guardian. “This is truly a historic victory for the working class of Seattle, and nationwide, and internationally.”
“Some restaurants are even considering hiring fewer servers and using tablets for customers to place orders at tables, according to restaurant industry officials.”
Do whatever you need to do. When dopes think they can just vote themselves a raise, just imagine what they will feel when they vote themselves out of a job.
Liberal motto - Bend Over
Elections have consequences.
Enjoy the suck.
It sounds like the owners are doing JUST WHAT THE LIBERALS PREDICTED. They are holding down costs to make themselves more efficient.
By the way, one large seafood chain now tells its customers to NO LONGER TIP, since the staff is already getting paid well. In Texas, the Federal Minimum Wage for waiters applies - it is $2.13 per hour. In Seattle, waiters now get $11 per hour, soon to be $15 per hour. I tip in Texas - there is NO WAY that I will ever tip again in Seattle. It’s game over for that.
Time for the business owners to start screaming “DID YOU DO THIS ON PURPOSE TO DESTROY OUR BUSINESSES?!” at the politicians and their stooges who forced this upon them.
The best thing that can happen to Seattle is for every business to leave that city, and maybe that state. The only way to fight these people is financially. I realize that these stores that are all over the country can’t just shut their doors in the city, but every other business should close their doors and move to a more business friendly state.
I just think tipping is no longer necessary....
Since many customers left a generous tips because they felt sorry for the lowly paid workers, I would expect that with the higher wages the tips will be less generous.
The best thing that can happen to Seattle is for every business to leave that city, and maybe that state. The only way to fight these people is financially. I realize that these stores that are all over the country can’t just shut their doors in the city, but every other business should close their doors and move to a more business friendly state.
There are already a lot of well-established restaurants in Seattle that have closed.
The interesting twist is that if an employee of a California firm works, x hours a month in Seattle, y hours in Portland, and z hours in San Francisco on a regular basis, the paid time off may only apply to their normal Seattle work times.
You got to love liberals micro-managing business and screwing everything up.
Not in Seattle. They are so far left, they will vote for more and more of this stuff
And to make matters worse, their population is such to swing the state wide vote in any direction they want. That is why our 5th straight democrat governor since 1983 is suggesting a state wide initiative to get to a $12 minimum.
Time to stop tipping. Long past time.
Seems like many of us have now reached “the tipping point”...
“I would expect that with the higher wages the tips will be less generous.”
As I said, much less generous for us, as in 0. And, in a way, good for them too, as I no longer need to factor-in the cost of the tips when deciding whether going to a place to eat out is worth it...so I’m more like to go out.
Spit in their food.
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