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Mario Batali doesn’t think $15 minimum wage is good for restaurants or foodies
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Posted on 09/15/2017 4:47:51 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

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To: CodeToad
I think it is unconstitutional.

Yeah, but don't tell John Roberts, he'll just invent a new Un-'constitutional' rule.

21 posted on 09/15/2017 6:24:26 PM PDT by Bullish (Whatever it takes to MAGA)
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To: shanover
I know Paula Dean was pushed out and yet I have never heard any political BS from the stars of the prime time shows.

Gee, I guess you've never heard Ted Allen talk about his 'husband'?


22 posted on 09/15/2017 6:29:21 PM PDT by Bullish (Whatever it takes to MAGA)
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To: Bullish
It will destroy restaurants.

If so then the ones that remain will get more business and will be able to pay the wage. It all works out.

23 posted on 09/15/2017 6:31:53 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Bullish

Yes- found that margins are really in the beverages, not the food. General rule was that each item’s menu price needed to be three times the ingredient cost but that was usually “too much trouble” and prices were often on feel. If house labor costs doubled, I’m thinking four times ingredient would be a minimum starting point. So, an entree that was $21 would need to become at least $28-— and a harder sell.


24 posted on 09/15/2017 6:44:14 PM PDT by philled (If this creature is not stopped it could make its way to Novosibirsk!)
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To: Bullish

I rarely go out.

A good burger place in my area runs $12-18 depending on the location.

In the middle of nowhere town close to where I slave for a living, there is a little sandwich shop/flower place that is pretty good and not too hard on the wallet.

I’m picky and avoid any of questionable places if at all possible.


25 posted on 09/15/2017 6:46:28 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Bullish

One liberal restaurant plan is simple.

Drive everyone out of business and have all the serfs dine on gruel ala Moochelle.

The higher beings of course would enjoy fine dining with all the trimmings routinely.


26 posted on 09/15/2017 6:49:58 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: central_va

Ridiculous, you must think that people won’t mind paying $30 for a burger and fries. That biz model is DOA. Money doesn’t grow on trees. Patrons of restaurants are just squeaking by too, ya’ know?


27 posted on 09/15/2017 7:01:10 PM PDT by Bullish (Whatever it takes to MAGA)
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To: Bullish

You clearly don’t understand economics. If an employee makes $10/hr and produces 20 hamburgers/hr then the per burger labor cost is $0.50 per burger. If he makes $15/hr and still produces 20 hamburger/hr the labor cost is now $0.75 per burger. So the price goes up $0.25 per burger. Not earth shattering.


28 posted on 09/15/2017 7:08:05 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Wrong!


29 posted on 09/15/2017 7:15:34 PM PDT by Bullish (Whatever it takes to MAGA)
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To: Bullish

Labor, productivity and production costs are not hard to figure out, It is third grade level math.


30 posted on 09/15/2017 7:18:12 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Then why are you failing if it’s 3rd grade level? You don’t know squat about keeping a restaurant in business. You get an F-

Hope you enjoy paying $12 for a hot dog.


31 posted on 09/15/2017 7:40:53 PM PDT by Bullish (Whatever it takes to MAGA)
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But don’t leave a tip.

But wait persons will still expect a tip. Leave none and they will remember you if you come with regularity and it could affect their degree of service. And you won't have the leverage of withholding a tip for poor service

32 posted on 09/15/2017 7:41:38 PM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: Sub-Driver

$15 minimum wage is the fastest way to the absolute minimum wage of $0.00.


33 posted on 09/15/2017 7:47:58 PM PDT by adorno (w)
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To: Bullish
Clearly you are to emotional about it. Does increasing minimum wage drive up prices? Yes. How much? Marginally, based on productivity. That is fact. To get to a $12.00 hot dog you'd have to pay $100/hr. Even then I don't think you could get there.

But you do not want to look at it rationally. So I hope all of these mom and pops go out of business if the are as stupid as you portray them.

34 posted on 09/15/2017 8:13:02 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: JohnG45

Those too stupid to career in Chemistry become chefs. Boom Boom, get over it.


35 posted on 09/15/2017 8:41:55 PM PDT by soycd
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To: central_va

Thanks, blowhard bean-counter. You still don’t know what you’re talking about.


36 posted on 09/15/2017 8:45:38 PM PDT by Bullish (Whatever it takes to MAGA)
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To: Bullish

Who the hell is Ted Allen?


37 posted on 09/15/2017 11:05:06 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Bullish

“It’s really an already dying business model that they operate under”

Really? Restaurants are a dying business model? Why?


38 posted on 09/15/2017 11:06:50 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: dsc

He’s the host of the long running “chopped” on food network.


39 posted on 09/15/2017 11:18:22 PM PDT by Bullish (Whatever it takes to MAGA)
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To: Bullish

Oh.


40 posted on 09/16/2017 12:08:10 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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