NYC $15 minimum wage hurting restaurants

[Taz]

It'll cull the places that needed slave wages to exist. No biggie, the strong will survive.

So basically fuck the people who want a nice $40 meal, and those paying $150 for a meal are just fine.

What a fucking bougie douche you are.

It wouldn't be that much of a difference. But you don't mind being served by people who can't make a living. I bet you shop at Walmart as well.

The wait staff usually does just fine. For some of them it's a part time job, for some a second job.

My father did side work growing up. Where is it written that you only need 1 job to provide a sustainable life, especially if you are low skilled or just starting out?

This tries to make low end jobs like professions, something you can do for a career, and they were never meant for that.

it's a way of coddling people to keep them needy on progressives, and not encouraging them to better themselves.

Of course a snitty bougie freak like you is OK with that.

Some people are paid so little that they get food stamps. Or have to live in a camper... I think that a country like ours should share the riches a little more. Trickle down doesn't work all that well. But you\re ok so you don't care about others. GO TRUMP!

They are paid so little because their skills set isn't worth much. They can improve their skill set and move on to a better paying position.

By subsidizing them at a low skill level, you remove the incentive to increase skill.

It's you ilk that don't care about them, because you want to coddle them and incentivize them staying at subsistence level.

And in actuality, when you raise pay to a point where a person of low skill no longer provides enough labor to justify the cost, either the business will fire them and hire a more skilled person, or eliminate their position via increasing the workload of others, or automation.

I think you just hate Americans. And you're selfish. And you sound like a hillbilly.

 

[martybegan]

So basically fuck the people who want a nice $40 meal, and those paying $150 for a meal are just fine.

What a fucking bougie douche you are.

It wouldn't be that much of a difference. But you don't mind being served by people who can't make a living. I bet you shop at Walmart as well.

The wait staff usually does just fine. For some of them it's a part time job, for some a second job.

My father did side work growing up. Where is it written that you only need 1 job to provide a sustainable life, especially if you are low skilled or just starting out?

This tries to make low end jobs like professions, something you can do for a career, and they were never meant for that.

it's a way of coddling people to keep them needy on progressives, and not encouraging them to better themselves.

Of course a snitty bougie freak like you is OK with that.

Some people are paid so little that they get food stamps. Or have to live in a camper... I think that a country like ours should share the riches a little more. Trickle down doesn't work all that well. But you\re ok so you don't care about others. GO TRUMP!

They are paid so little because their skills set isn't worth much. They can improve their skill set and move on to a better paying position.

By subsidizing them at a low skill level, you remove the incentive to increase skill.

It's you ilk that don't care about them, because you want to coddle them and incentivize them staying at subsistence level.

And in actuality, when you raise pay to a point where a person of low skill no longer provides enough labor to justify the cost, either the business will fire them and hire a more skilled person, or eliminate their position via increasing the workload of others, or automation.

I think you just hate Americans. And you're selfish. And you sound like a hillbilly.

FOAD.

 

[Wyatt earp]

Anyone surprised?

Gabriela’s isn’t alone. In a survey of 324 full-service restaurants, the New York City Hospitality Alliance found that 76.5 percent of respondents cut staff hours and 36.3 percent eliminated jobs, including whole layers of middle management, in response to mandated wage increases.

“It’s death by a thousand cuts,” says Andrew Rigie, executive director of the group. “The minimum wage increases put pressure on small businesses. They are well-intended but unsustainable. There’s only so many times you can increase the price of a burger and a bowl of pasta.”

Philippe Massoud, CEO and executive chef of the Manhattan-based Lebanese eateries Ilili and Ilili Box, says rising wages have forced him to cut hours for his 180 employees, yank labor-intensive dishes from the menu and cut back on staff education events like wine seminars.

The rent doesn’t go down. The food doesn’t cost less. Customers aren’t going to pay higher prices.

What does the Loony Left expect?

More @ https://nypost.com/2019/09/29/15-minimum-wage-hike-is-hitting-hurting-nyc-restaurants/

NYC has the highest rental prices in the country. The price of food has increased dramatically, taxes are the highest in the country

Yet, somehow, restaurants in NYC thrive

But try to increase what they pay their workers and they claim they will go out of business

Artificially?

You are telling someone else what they should pay with out looking at the books.

 

[rightwinger]

Anyone surprised?

Gabriela’s isn’t alone. In a survey of 324 full-service restaurants, the New York City Hospitality Alliance found that 76.5 percent of respondents cut staff hours and 36.3 percent eliminated jobs, including whole layers of middle management, in response to mandated wage increases.

“It’s death by a thousand cuts,” says Andrew Rigie, executive director of the group. “The minimum wage increases put pressure on small businesses. They are well-intended but unsustainable. There’s only so many times you can increase the price of a burger and a bowl of pasta.”

Philippe Massoud, CEO and executive chef of the Manhattan-based Lebanese eateries Ilili and Ilili Box, says rising wages have forced him to cut hours for his 180 employees, yank labor-intensive dishes from the menu and cut back on staff education events like wine seminars.

The rent doesn’t go down. The food doesn’t cost less. Customers aren’t going to pay higher prices.

What does the Loony Left expect?

More @ https://nypost.com/2019/09/29/15-minimum-wage-hike-is-hitting-hurting-nyc-restaurants/

NYC has the highest rental prices in the country. The price of food has increased dramatically, taxes are the highest in the country

Yet, somehow, restaurants in NYC thrive

But try to increase what they pay their workers and they claim they will go out of business

You are leaving out a large section of New Yorkers on welfare. Because of bad education, broken families, over regulation.

When the prevailing wages do not provide an income where workers can afford rent, food and healthcare, the state has to step up and supplement low wages

More reason to increase minimum wage

If workers never advance in skill beyond what can earn them below $15 an hour, the issue isn't with the system, it's with the person.

That person simply isn't worth $15 an hour, or probably even $10 an hour. But forcing an employer to pay them more than they provide as a value input is a great way to ruin a local economy.

Is the property you rent worth $10,000 a month, is a pound of beef worth $7?

You pay the going rate, if the going minimum wage is $15, you pay it

 

[rightwinger]

It'll cull the places that needed slave wages to exist. No biggie, the strong will survive.

So basically fuck the people who want a nice $40 meal, and those paying $150 for a meal are just fine.

What a fucking bougie douche you are.

It wouldn't be that much of a difference. But you don't mind being served by people who can't make a living. I bet you shop at Walmart as well.

The wait staff usually does just fine. For some of them it's a part time job, for some a second job.

My father did side work growing up. Where is it written that you only need 1 job to provide a sustainable life, especially if you are low skilled or just starting out?

This tries to make low end jobs like professions, something you can do for a career, and they were never meant for that.

it's a way of coddling people to keep them needy on progressives, and not encouraging them to better themselves.

Of course a snitty bougie freak like you is OK with that.

Some people are paid so little that they get food stamps. Or have to live in a camper... I think that a country like ours should share the riches a little more. Trickle down doesn't work all that well. But you\re ok so you don't care about others. GO TRUMP!

They are paid so little because their skills set isn't worth much. They can improve their skill set and move on to a better paying position.

By subsidizing them at a low skill level, you remove the incentive to increase skill.

It's you ilk that don't care about them, because you want to coddle them and incentivize them staying at subsistence level.

And in actuality, when you raise pay to a point where a person of low skill no longer provides enough labor to justify the cost, either the business will fire them and hire a more skilled person, or eliminate their position via increasing the workload of others, or automation.

Who says people never move beyond a minimum wage?
Most do

Doesn’t mean they should be exploited while earning minimum wages

 

[Jitss617]

Anyone surprised?

Gabriela’s isn’t alone. In a survey of 324 full-service restaurants, the New York City Hospitality Alliance found that 76.5 percent of respondents cut staff hours and 36.3 percent eliminated jobs, including whole layers of middle management, in response to mandated wage increases.

“It’s death by a thousand cuts,” says Andrew Rigie, executive director of the group. “The minimum wage increases put pressure on small businesses. They are well-intended but unsustainable. There’s only so many times you can increase the price of a burger and a bowl of pasta.”

Philippe Massoud, CEO and executive chef of the Manhattan-based Lebanese eateries Ilili and Ilili Box, says rising wages have forced him to cut hours for his 180 employees, yank labor-intensive dishes from the menu and cut back on staff education events like wine seminars.

The rent doesn’t go down. The food doesn’t cost less. Customers aren’t going to pay higher prices.

What does the Loony Left expect?

More @ https://nypost.com/2019/09/29/15-minimum-wage-hike-is-hitting-hurting-nyc-restaurants/

NYC has the highest rental prices in the country. The price of food has increased dramatically, taxes are the highest in the country

Yet, somehow, restaurants in NYC thrive

But try to increase what they pay their workers and they claim they will go out of business

You are leaving out a large section of New Yorkers on welfare. Because of bad education, broken families, over regulation.

When the prevailing wages do not provide an income where workers can afford rent, food and healthcare, the state has to step up and supplement low wages

More reason to increase minimum wage

If workers never advance in skill beyond what can earn them below $15 an hour, the issue isn't with the system, it's with the person.

That person simply isn't worth $15 an hour, or probably even $10 an hour. But forcing an employer to pay them more than they provide as a value input is a great way to ruin a local economy.

Is the property you rent worth $10,000 a month, is a pound of beef worth $7?

You pay the going rate, if the going minimum wage is $15, you pay it

Property is high because of all the regulations you democrats have put on new and resold property

 

[Dick Foster]

Are y

Anyone surprised?

Gabriela’s isn’t alone. In a survey of 324 full-service restaurants, the New York City Hospitality Alliance found that 76.5 percent of respondents cut staff hours and 36.3 percent eliminated jobs, including whole layers of middle management, in response to mandated wage increases.

“It’s death by a thousand cuts,” says Andrew Rigie, executive director of the group. “The minimum wage increases put pressure on small businesses. They are well-intended but unsustainable. There’s only so many times you can increase the price of a burger and a bowl of pasta.”

Philippe Massoud, CEO and executive chef of the Manhattan-based Lebanese eateries Ilili and Ilili Box, says rising wages have forced him to cut hours for his 180 employees, yank labor-intensive dishes from the menu and cut back on staff education events like wine seminars.

The rent doesn’t go down. The food doesn’t cost less. Customers aren’t going to pay higher prices.

What does the Loony Left expect?

More @ https://nypost.com/2019/09/29/15-minimum-wage-hike-is-hitting-hurting-nyc-restaurants/

It'll cull the places that needed slave wages to exist. No biggie, the strong will survive.

Are you going to replace all of those missing paychecks out of your pocket, asshole?

 

[Wyatt earp]

Anyone surprised?

Gabriela’s isn’t alone. In a survey of 324 full-service restaurants, the New York City Hospitality Alliance found that 76.5 percent of respondents cut staff hours and 36.3 percent eliminated jobs, including whole layers of middle management, in response to mandated wage increases.

“It’s death by a thousand cuts,” says Andrew Rigie, executive director of the group. “The minimum wage increases put pressure on small businesses. They are well-intended but unsustainable. There’s only so many times you can increase the price of a burger and a bowl of pasta.”

Philippe Massoud, CEO and executive chef of the Manhattan-based Lebanese eateries Ilili and Ilili Box, says rising wages have forced him to cut hours for his 180 employees, yank labor-intensive dishes from the menu and cut back on staff education events like wine seminars.

The rent doesn’t go down. The food doesn’t cost less. Customers aren’t going to pay higher prices.

What does the Loony Left expect?

More @ https://nypost.com/2019/09/29/15-minimum-wage-hike-is-hitting-hurting-nyc-restaurants/

NYC has the highest rental prices in the country. The price of food has increased dramatically, taxes are the highest in the country

Yet, somehow, restaurants in NYC thrive

But try to increase what they pay their workers and they claim they will go out of business

You are leaving out a large section of New Yorkers on welfare. Because of bad education, broken families, over regulation.

When the prevailing wages do not provide an income where workers can afford rent, food and healthcare, the state has to step up and supplement low wages

More reason to increase minimum wage

And the cost of living goes up, its a no brainer.

 

[rightwinger]

NYC has the highest rental prices in the country. The price of food has increased dramatically, taxes are the highest in the country

Yet, somehow, restaurants in NYC thrive

But try to increase what they pay their workers and they claim they will go out of business

You are leaving out a large section of New Yorkers on welfare. Because of bad education, broken families, over regulation.

When the prevailing wages do not provide an income where workers can afford rent, food and healthcare, the state has to step up and supplement low wages

More reason to increase minimum wage

If workers never advance in skill beyond what can earn them below $15 an hour, the issue isn't with the system, it's with the person.

That person simply isn't worth $15 an hour, or probably even $10 an hour. But forcing an employer to pay them more than they provide as a value input is a great way to ruin a local economy.

Is the property you rent worth $10,000 a month, is a pound of beef worth $7?

You pay the going rate, if the going minimum wage is $15, you pay it

Property is high because of all the regulations you democrats have put on new and resold property

Doesn’t matter

Rents, taxes, energy, cost of supplies are all a cost of doing business

So is the price of labor

Yet, we don’t see restaurants threatening to go out of business every time rent or taxes increase

 

[Jitss617]

You are leaving out a large section of New Yorkers on welfare. Because of bad education, broken families, over regulation.

When the prevailing wages do not provide an income where workers can afford rent, food and healthcare, the state has to step up and supplement low wages

More reason to increase minimum wage

If workers never advance in skill beyond what can earn them below $15 an hour, the issue isn't with the system, it's with the person.

That person simply isn't worth $15 an hour, or probably even $10 an hour. But forcing an employer to pay them more than they provide as a value input is a great way to ruin a local economy.

Is the property you rent worth $10,000 a month, is a pound of beef worth $7?

You pay the going rate, if the going minimum wage is $15, you pay it

Property is high because of all the regulations you democrats have put on new and resold property

Doesn’t matter

Rents, taxes, energy, cost of supplies are all a cost of doing business

So is the price of labor

Yet, we don’t see restaurants threatening to go out of business every time rent or taxes increase

Umm so reduce price of the regulations that go in to building and reselling.. we are civilized people, we are smart. Build more manufacturing in these cities. Lowers the rest across the board.

 

[Wyatt earp]

You are leaving out a large section of New Yorkers on welfare. Because of bad education, broken families, over regulation.

When the prevailing wages do not provide an income where workers can afford rent, food and healthcare, the state has to step up and supplement low wages

More reason to increase minimum wage

If workers never advance in skill beyond what can earn them below $15 an hour, the issue isn't with the system, it's with the person.

That person simply isn't worth $15 an hour, or probably even $10 an hour. But forcing an employer to pay them more than they provide as a value input is a great way to ruin a local economy.

Is the property you rent worth $10,000 a month, is a pound of beef worth $7?

You pay the going rate, if the going minimum wage is $15, you pay it

Property is high because of all the regulations you democrats have put on new and resold property

Doesn’t matter

Rents, taxes, energy, cost of supplies are all a cost of doing business

So is the price of labor

Yet, we don’t see restaurants threatening to go out of business every time rent or taxes increase

Funny how 30 grand a year government dog catchers in red states do the same job as 100 grand dog catchers in the blue cities/states.

 

[Wyatt earp]

When the prevailing wages do not provide an income where workers can afford rent, food and healthcare, the state has to step up and supplement low wages

More reason to increase minimum wage

If workers never advance in skill beyond what can earn them below $15 an hour, the issue isn't with the system, it's with the person.

That person simply isn't worth $15 an hour, or probably even $10 an hour. But forcing an employer to pay them more than they provide as a value input is a great way to ruin a local economy.

Is the property you rent worth $10,000 a month, is a pound of beef worth $7?

You pay the going rate, if the going minimum wage is $15, you pay it

Property is high because of all the regulations you democrats have put on new and resold property

Doesn’t matter

Rents, taxes, energy, cost of supplies are all a cost of doing business

So is the price of labor

Yet, we don’t see restaurants threatening to go out of business every time rent or taxes increase

Umm so reduce price of the regulations that go in to building and reselling.. we are civilized people, we are smart. Build more manufacturing in these cities. Lowers the rest across the board.

Sure is alot of abandoned buildings...but that's the problem with lefty's greed on taxes.


They rather have abandoned buildings and no tax revenue for some reason.

.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Think of how great the restaurants could be doing if they didn't have to pay the help at all!


"Prosperity Through Lower Wages!"

Pay them all $100/hour.
What could go wrong?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Anyone surprised?

Gabriela’s isn’t alone. In a survey of 324 full-service restaurants, the New York City Hospitality Alliance found that 76.5 percent of respondents cut staff hours and 36.3 percent eliminated jobs, including whole layers of middle management, in response to mandated wage increases.

“It’s death by a thousand cuts,” says Andrew Rigie, executive director of the group. “The minimum wage increases put pressure on small businesses. They are well-intended but unsustainable. There’s only so many times you can increase the price of a burger and a bowl of pasta.”

Philippe Massoud, CEO and executive chef of the Manhattan-based Lebanese eateries Ilili and Ilili Box, says rising wages have forced him to cut hours for his 180 employees, yank labor-intensive dishes from the menu and cut back on staff education events like wine seminars.

The rent doesn’t go down. The food doesn’t cost less. Customers aren’t going to pay higher prices.

What does the Loony Left expect?

More @ https://nypost.com/2019/09/29/15-minimum-wage-hike-is-hitting-hurting-nyc-restaurants/

It'll cull the places that needed slave wages to exist. No biggie, the strong will survive.

Exactly!
Anything under $15 is slave wages, eh?
The strong will survive and if lots of low-skilled people lose their jobs.....meh.

And go on welfare... Good plan.

I agree, your idea is moronic.

 

[Wyatt earp]

Anyone surprised?

Gabriela’s isn’t alone. In a survey of 324 full-service restaurants, the New York City Hospitality Alliance found that 76.5 percent of respondents cut staff hours and 36.3 percent eliminated jobs, including whole layers of middle management, in response to mandated wage increases.

“It’s death by a thousand cuts,” says Andrew Rigie, executive director of the group. “The minimum wage increases put pressure on small businesses. They are well-intended but unsustainable. There’s only so many times you can increase the price of a burger and a bowl of pasta.”

Philippe Massoud, CEO and executive chef of the Manhattan-based Lebanese eateries Ilili and Ilili Box, says rising wages have forced him to cut hours for his 180 employees, yank labor-intensive dishes from the menu and cut back on staff education events like wine seminars.

The rent doesn’t go down. The food doesn’t cost less. Customers aren’t going to pay higher prices.

What does the Loony Left expect?

More @ https://nypost.com/2019/09/29/15-minimum-wage-hike-is-hitting-hurting-nyc-restaurants/

It'll cull the places that needed slave wages to exist. No biggie, the strong will survive.

Exactly!
Anything under $15 is slave wages, eh?
The strong will survive and if lots of low-skilled people lose their jobs.....meh.

And go on welfare... Good plan.

I agree, your idea is moronic.

I dont know for some reason people like making a lousy $800 bucks on SS disability..

I never got that.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Anyone surprised?

Gabriela’s isn’t alone. In a survey of 324 full-service restaurants, the New York City Hospitality Alliance found that 76.5 percent of respondents cut staff hours and 36.3 percent eliminated jobs, including whole layers of middle management, in response to mandated wage increases.

“It’s death by a thousand cuts,” says Andrew Rigie, executive director of the group. “The minimum wage increases put pressure on small businesses. They are well-intended but unsustainable. There’s only so many times you can increase the price of a burger and a bowl of pasta.”

Philippe Massoud, CEO and executive chef of the Manhattan-based Lebanese eateries Ilili and Ilili Box, says rising wages have forced him to cut hours for his 180 employees, yank labor-intensive dishes from the menu and cut back on staff education events like wine seminars.

The rent doesn’t go down. The food doesn’t cost less. Customers aren’t going to pay higher prices.

What does the Loony Left expect?

More @ https://nypost.com/2019/09/29/15-minimum-wage-hike-is-hitting-hurting-nyc-restaurants/

It'll cull the places that needed slave wages to exist. No biggie, the strong will survive.

So basically fuck the people who want a nice $40 meal, and those paying $150 for a meal are just fine.

What a fucking bougie douche you are.

It wouldn't be that much of a difference. But you don't mind being served by people who can't make a living. I bet you shop at Walmart as well.

The wait staff usually does just fine. For some of them it's a part time job, for some a second job.

My father did side work growing up. Where is it written that you only need 1 job to provide a sustainable life, especially if you are low skilled or just starting out?

This tries to make low end jobs like professions, something you can do for a career, and they were never meant for that.

it's a way of coddling people to keep them needy on progressives, and not encouraging them to better themselves.

Of course a snitty bougie freak like you is OK with that.

Some people are paid so little that they get food stamps. Or have to live in a camper... I think that a country like ours should share the riches a little more. Trickle down doesn't work all that well. But you\re ok so you don't care about others. GO TRUMP!

Some people are paid so little that they get food stamps.

So instead of supplementing their low income with food stamps, they should get all their money from the government. DURR

I think that a country like ours should share the riches a little more.

Multi-generational welfare recipients, great idea!

 

[Jitss617]

If workers never advance in skill beyond what can earn them below $15 an hour, the issue isn't with the system, it's with the person.

That person simply isn't worth $15 an hour, or probably even $10 an hour. But forcing an employer to pay them more than they provide as a value input is a great way to ruin a local economy.

Is the property you rent worth $10,000 a month, is a pound of beef worth $7?

You pay the going rate, if the going minimum wage is $15, you pay it

Property is high because of all the regulations you democrats have put on new and resold property

Doesn’t matter

Rents, taxes, energy, cost of supplies are all a cost of doing business

So is the price of labor

Yet, we don’t see restaurants threatening to go out of business every time rent or taxes increase

Umm so reduce price of the regulations that go in to building and reselling.. we are civilized people, we are smart. Build more manufacturing in these cities. Lowers the rest across the board.

Sure is alot of abandoned buildings...but that's the problem with lefty's greed on taxes.


They rather have abandoned buildings and no tax revenue for some reason.

.

They are abandons because they won’t let anyone in to fix unless they are millionaires they hate the poor

 

[Wyatt earp]

Are y

Anyone surprised?

Gabriela’s isn’t alone. In a survey of 324 full-service restaurants, the New York City Hospitality Alliance found that 76.5 percent of respondents cut staff hours and 36.3 percent eliminated jobs, including whole layers of middle management, in response to mandated wage increases.

“It’s death by a thousand cuts,” says Andrew Rigie, executive director of the group. “The minimum wage increases put pressure on small businesses. They are well-intended but unsustainable. There’s only so many times you can increase the price of a burger and a bowl of pasta.”

Philippe Massoud, CEO and executive chef of the Manhattan-based Lebanese eateries Ilili and Ilili Box, says rising wages have forced him to cut hours for his 180 employees, yank labor-intensive dishes from the menu and cut back on staff education events like wine seminars.

The rent doesn’t go down. The food doesn’t cost less. Customers aren’t going to pay higher prices.

What does the Loony Left expect?

More @ https://nypost.com/2019/09/29/15-minimum-wage-hike-is-hitting-hurting-nyc-restaurants/

It'll cull the places that needed slave wages to exist. No biggie, the strong will survive.

Are you going to replace all of those missing paychecks out of your pocket, asshole?

So you're for slave wages. Got it.

Where?


.

 

[Wyatt earp]

Are y

Anyone surprised?

Gabriela’s isn’t alone. In a survey of 324 full-service restaurants, the New York City Hospitality Alliance found that 76.5 percent of respondents cut staff hours and 36.3 percent eliminated jobs, including whole layers of middle management, in response to mandated wage increases.

“It’s death by a thousand cuts,” says Andrew Rigie, executive director of the group. “The minimum wage increases put pressure on small businesses. They are well-intended but unsustainable. There’s only so many times you can increase the price of a burger and a bowl of pasta.”

Philippe Massoud, CEO and executive chef of the Manhattan-based Lebanese eateries Ilili and Ilili Box, says rising wages have forced him to cut hours for his 180 employees, yank labor-intensive dishes from the menu and cut back on staff education events like wine seminars.

The rent doesn’t go down. The food doesn’t cost less. Customers aren’t going to pay higher prices.

What does the Loony Left expect?

More @ https://nypost.com/2019/09/29/15-minimum-wage-hike-is-hitting-hurting-nyc-restaurants/

It'll cull the places that needed slave wages to exist. No biggie, the strong will survive.

Are you going to replace all of those missing paychecks out of your pocket, asshole?

So you're for slave wages. Got it.

Where?


.

You're on planet earth.

Give me links, put up or shut up.

.

 

[martybegan]

Anyone surprised?

Gabriela’s isn’t alone. In a survey of 324 full-service restaurants, the New York City Hospitality Alliance found that 76.5 percent of respondents cut staff hours and 36.3 percent eliminated jobs, including whole layers of middle management, in response to mandated wage increases.

“It’s death by a thousand cuts,” says Andrew Rigie, executive director of the group. “The minimum wage increases put pressure on small businesses. They are well-intended but unsustainable. There’s only so many times you can increase the price of a burger and a bowl of pasta.”

Philippe Massoud, CEO and executive chef of the Manhattan-based Lebanese eateries Ilili and Ilili Box, says rising wages have forced him to cut hours for his 180 employees, yank labor-intensive dishes from the menu and cut back on staff education events like wine seminars.

The rent doesn’t go down. The food doesn’t cost less. Customers aren’t going to pay higher prices.

What does the Loony Left expect?

More @ https://nypost.com/2019/09/29/15-minimum-wage-hike-is-hitting-hurting-nyc-restaurants/

NYC has the highest rental prices in the country. The price of food has increased dramatically, taxes are the highest in the country

Yet, somehow, restaurants in NYC thrive

But try to increase what they pay their workers and they claim they will go out of business

You are leaving out a large section of New Yorkers on welfare. Because of bad education, broken families, over regulation.

When the prevailing wages do not provide an income where workers can afford rent, food and healthcare, the state has to step up and supplement low wages

More reason to increase minimum wage

If workers never advance in skill beyond what can earn them below $15 an hour, the issue isn't with the system, it's with the person.

That person simply isn't worth $15 an hour, or probably even $10 an hour. But forcing an employer to pay them more than they provide as a value input is a great way to ruin a local economy.

Is the property you rent worth $10,000 a month, is a pound of beef worth $7?

You pay the going rate, if the going minimum wage is $15, you pay it

A forced minimum wage is not the "going rate" Rents are driven by the market. Forced minimum wages ignore the market.