Apparently you are not familiar with the tax code. Any 'loss' a business incurs, including shutting down and having to 're-jig' the business is a tax write-off. The 'loss of income' can be and is claimed over a number of fiscal years depending on when the business owner's tax attorney/accounting firm feels it's most financially beneficial. In virtually every case, if the owner looses say ten grand having to shut down the business he will over the next few years 'write-off' substantially more than ten grand.The business owner won obviously. He/she 'got rid' of a bunch of semi literate drop outs who demanded to be paid what the business owner did not think was in his businesses' best interest. It's simple.Who won?
Sub shop loses business while they scramble for new employees, employees go get another low paying job
The 'loss' his business will suffer will be written off for years and the owner will actually make money on his 'loss' tax-wise'.
Don't worry about the owner finding replacement employees. He'll put a sign in the window "Help Wanted" and get a thousand applications of which he will choose the 20 employees with the very best employment records. Win-win.
As an aside re employees. The very best employees like to work with other excellent employees. Makes the work easier when you don't have to work beside a whining/ stoned/drunk/illiterate/Liberal 'male who pees sitting down' 'Metro' all night.
You do realize you are talking about minimum wage employees don't you?
The owner fires everyone and has to spend a week hiring and training new employees. The fired employees spend a week looking for a new low paying job
Nobody wins
I know a business owner who once literally had to spend thirty grand within a week in order to sneak under some sort of 'tax code' dead-line. He was running all over town buying crates of dishes/stoves/commercial kitchen utensils etc etc. In the following fiscal year most of that junk somehow got 'stolen' from where he was keeping it and so he was able to claim most of the thirty grand as a 'loss' and therefore a tax-write-off over the next few years.
And the 'low-information' minimum wage illeterates wonder how and why certain 'business decisions' are made. LOL