DOH....
Food service and beverage industries run on very slim margins. It’s unavoidable to pass on the cost, especially when it’s not of your own free will because profits are there to afford it.
PA’s Lefty Gov. Tax-It-All Tommy Wolf wants to take the PA minimum wage up nearly $5/hr. in one fell swoop, on its way to $15 by 2024.
Believe me, people will notice that at the Taco Bell drive thru.
Do prices rise when corporate executives receive large raises and reach income levels in the millions of dollars per year?
The progressives in the Seattle did the same thing a few years ago with the same result. How many times does a simpleton have to put his/her fingers on a hot stove before realizing it will burn?
“unexpected”
The increase in meal COSTS will end up being taken from the TIPS left for the servers. Didn’t anyone in NOO YAWK read or hear about what the “wonderful” increase in the minimum wage did to the food industry in Seattle?
And, of course, the politicians stand proud because THEY have given the “down trodden” an increase in their stipend.
The predictable result is, naturally, not of their doing.
And the Dems harvest the usual twofer from the masses. They get credit for raising up those who consider themselves the downtrodden victimized by the capitalists and the Dems also assure more unemployed and underemployed who will be more dependent on government programs.
What I eat largely depends on what is on sale.
There is a perfect correlation of forced wage increase and the cycle of unemployment:
1) forced wage increase,
2) price increase,
3) reduced customers,
4) layoffs/reduced hours,
and then
5) libtards blaming private enterprise.
Reality like gravity is a bitch!
Being laid off is really good news!...................
Are their no true bolsheviks left in NYC? Just freeze the food prices at earlier levels.
Wait till you see all the jobs this kills. A pizza shop near me is going out of business and I don’t blame him. If he’s paying just one guy $15 an hour, he has to sell around 2 to 3 slices an hour JUST to pay him. Then he has to pay rent, insurance, pay for the materials, plates, napkins, food, the dough, the cheese and on top of that he got a family to support, that’s impossible unless he’s selling one pie after another which ain’t happening. Once again the Rats show their true agenda which is to make people unemployed and 100% dependent on the government.
Unexpected.
The process is induced wage inflation. Trickle up wage economics.
The goal is for everybody to get some kind of a raise that will make things rosey and attributable to the loving Democrats who always look out for the little guy.
The irony is that the more you make, the more you save on income tax
Just wait until they get the Bill for taking care of all those Illegals