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CALIFORNIA: $15 MINIMUM WAGE, $30 PER PIZZA, MASSIVE FAIL
Breitbart ^ | 8/17 | William Bigelow

Posted on 08/18/2015 1:34:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Small businesses are already struggling to survive the spate of minimum wage increases to $15 per hour in parts of California.

Last month, the small Bay Area town of Emeryville, California, (population 10,000) decided to act as flag-bearer for raising the minimum wage in California, hiking its minimum wage to $14.44 per hour.

Even though businesses with less than 56 workers are exempt from the $14.44 rate and do not have to raise their wages to $15 until 2018, Vic Gumper, who owns Lanesplitter Pizza, with outlets in Berkeley, Oakland, Albany and Emeryville, decided not only to bite the bullet but swallow it, paying his workers $15 to $25 an hour while eschewing tips or raising prices.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: albany; berkeley; california; emeryville; government; lanesplitterpizza; minimumwage; oakland; pizza; vicgumper
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To: refermech

incorrect

people in the US not working but on typical govt benefits are in the top 20% of worldwide incomes


21 posted on 08/18/2015 1:48:49 PM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: Popman

...Sales at Gumper’s locations have plunged 25% in the last few months, forcing Gumper’s to close during lunch hours at some locations....

A food eatery is closing during lunch hours???
Everything libs touch seems to backfire.


22 posted on 08/18/2015 1:49:17 PM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: InvisibleChurch

Just think of the money he could save if he were closed 24/7!


23 posted on 08/18/2015 1:51:30 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (To defeat the democRATs, we must first defeat the Republicans.)
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To: FredZarguna

I worked at the state unemployment office for almost 20 years. I guarantee you that employers pay the UI tax. Ask any employer here at FR.


24 posted on 08/18/2015 1:52:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: nickcarraway

He should have shut down his pizza parlors in Berkeley, Oakland, Albany and Emeryville and moved them to Texas.....
to Tyler, Marshall, Weatherford and Longview.


25 posted on 08/18/2015 1:53:53 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Liberals are like the Taliban and ISIS....destroying cultural icons they don't like.)
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To: nickcarraway
Sales at Gumper’s locations have plunged 25% in the last few months, forcing Gumper’s to close during lunch hours at some locations. Gumper admitted, “The necessity of paying people a living wage in the Bay Area is clear, so it’s hard to argue against it, and it’s something I’m really proud to be able to try doing. At the same time, I’m terrified of going out of business after 18 years.”

Yep, he's really helping them by closing at lunch and reducing their total hours worked. Let me see...would that affect their take-home pay? Typical deep thinking Liberal.

26 posted on 08/18/2015 1:53:53 PM PDT by econjack (I'm not bossy...I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: nickcarraway

27 posted on 08/18/2015 1:54:12 PM PDT by caww
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To: nascarnation
Looks like they lost their job and are getting $0.00 per hour.

Looks like it to me.

/johnny

28 posted on 08/18/2015 1:55:11 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

I think your comment was correct circa 1900.
You really need to look at that link I posted.


29 posted on 08/18/2015 1:57:40 PM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: PGR88

Employees can make ‘more’ with tipping then without as this guy stopped tipping.


30 posted on 08/18/2015 1:58:16 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

The knit hat looks sterile. I wonder if his forearms are hairy.


31 posted on 08/18/2015 2:02:50 PM PDT by windcliff
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To: caww

What is with these hipsters wearing those stupid looking knit caps ALL THE TIME? Seems like you would roast in one during the summer. Plus, they look stupid. Did I mention that they look stupid?


32 posted on 08/18/2015 2:02:53 PM PDT by Disambiguator (Cis-American)
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To: JRandomFreeper

On welfare...it’s $25 a day which is some $9,000 a year. And that is an income that puts people into the top 20% of all “Global” incomes....imagine that the average welfare payment alone in the US puts people into the top 20% of all global income earners!!!

(Forbes)


33 posted on 08/18/2015 2:03:24 PM PDT by caww
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To: PGR88

Fascism and socialism are te same thing. Just under fascism govt and business pretend businesses still are privately owned.


34 posted on 08/18/2015 2:08:28 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: I want the USA back; All
The government does not have the right to set an hourly pay rate.

The feds don’t have the constitutional authority to set hourly pay rate where intrastate commerce is concerned.

On the other hand, the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly prohibit themselves from setting hourly pay rate.

35 posted on 08/18/2015 2:10:16 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: nickcarraway

Such economic morons...


36 posted on 08/18/2015 2:14:10 PM PDT by tflabo (Psalm 1)
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To: FredZarguna

“”””If you think employers pay for an any employee related expense or benefit, I have a really nice bridge in the south part of Manhattan Island I’d love you to meet with my realtor to have a look at... “””””

I have been an employer for 40 years. You don’t know what you are talking about.


37 posted on 08/18/2015 2:15:55 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: nickcarraway

Repeal the min wage laws. Call it the Full Employment Act.


38 posted on 08/18/2015 2:20:15 PM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: nickcarraway

My Mother and I were just talking about how my grandparents came here in ‘57 and made .90 and .80 per hour and managed to buy a house and pay it off, implying that people today just don’t save( kind of true) I reminded her that my dad drove grandpa to work and grandma walked to work at the hospital, milk was $1 a gallon, ground beef .30 a pound, bread .20, eggs .55. We may have seen increases in wages but hell even I remember brand new cars for under $3000!


39 posted on 08/18/2015 2:20:20 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: nickcarraway

And a $15 surcharge on frozen pizza you buy at a store.


40 posted on 08/18/2015 2:23:00 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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