Higher prices and less service. What’s not to like, comrade?
And the restaurants are going to see a decrease in customers.
They get what they de-serve....................
Awesome. Thanks to libs, restaurants will begin morphing into glorified vending machines. And there will be more bums standing on the street corners wanting me to give them stuff.
McDonald’s super saver special: 2 cheeseburgers - $18.95.
I hope the cost of their weed doesn’t go up. Who doesn’t want a mellow Coloradoan with decreasing brain cells and mental facilitates?
This bears repeating, especially for liberal types who don’t understand how business works.
Many restaurants have tight margins; profit of a nickel on the dollar or less is common. And , the labor costs, simply paying all the hired help, is the biggest single expense of most businesses, including restaurants.
So, it’s predictable that with labor costs escalating, that something’s got to give.
In our town prices up big time. Ask employees if they have gotten raise. Nope.
That God for copycat recipes. We make our favorites at home now.
I didn’t approve it. We have so many socialists and worse here now I think Colorado is lost.
IIRC, McBLM is already experimenting with self-service kiosks in some locations and it’s cutting operating costs down quite a bit.
The same asswipe that whined about getting his $10.20 will soon get $0.00. If he gets to keep his job, a burger is now 25% more. Simple math will tell them they’ll actually go down in income and lifestyle.
Of course, it’s the minimum wage lifers/slackers that this has the most impact on.
Public school taught him how to balance his checkbook but didn’t even touch general economics. Or history.
Colorado will go the way of California - into the dustbin of history. Good Riddance. Coloradans suck. Most of them, being narcissistic, tree-hugging, doped-up morons, cause massive problems for Nebraska and the western states that share the border.
Nebraska attempted to sue Colorado, for the drug trafficking problem it’s burnout populace is causing our state, but some feral jackass judge shot down our suit.
Nebraska should build a “WALL” along our western border, so to keep these mangy, flea-infested, weed-eaters. Oh, and BTW - Coloradans drive like a-holes, even on the rare occasions when they’re sober.
What a beautiful state to be destroyed by California leftists.
...guess they didn’t learn anything with Seattle mess...
Higher minimum wage means more money for legal pot.
More unemployment because of higher wage costs means more time to smoke legal pot.
Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)
We have to put a stop to amending the state constitution by a vote of 50% +1 of ill informed people.
The article is BS. First of all, Colorado has tons of laws protecting small business and exempting them from minimum wage. For example, if your McDonalds franchise has less than 50 employees, you are exempt from minimum wage laws. Instead, there are lower wages that restaurant are paid. Secondly, State minimum wages tend to be lower than Fed. Min. Wage.
In sit down places, it’s even worse. Waiters are paid just a couple bucks an hour while bus boys are paid minimum wage. The waiter has to pay the bus boy the going tip rate as a percentage of what the waiter earns for tips. So if the going tip rate is 20%, the waiter has to work over 20% of her tips to the bus people. The problem is, it’s not based on what the bus person was actually paid in tips, but on 20 % of sales attributed to that waitress. She may have put 60 bucks in her pocket Wich reflects 10% of her sales, but she HAS to contribute the 20% she SHOULD have earned.
If at the end of the week, he hasn’t earned minimum wage average, the biz owner is supposed to make up the difference, but they don’t. And they won’t.
So for a restaurant owner to jack up prices under the pretext of increased wages is a LIE.
When min. Wage was 5.25/hr., Wait staff was paid $1.80 per hour. Fast food places pay more, but are still protected from full min. Wage and the small business protections.
Point is, the article is a lie...propaganda BS.
And Denver already charges an arm and a leg for food anyway. I have yet to have a good meal there unless you call chain restaurants good or excellent. I don’t.