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    Quote Originally Posted by Gonzomin View Post
    Restaurant chains close for lots of reasons. All those others paying it are open.https://www.epi.org/publication/wage...age-increases/ Like Trump's casinos going bankrupt. Every other one stayed open and profitable. It was a management problem. Because someone blames the wage increase does not make it so.
    In these cases, it was because of the minimum wage increase.

    Because you say it's a management problem doesn't make it so.

    The businesses cited the reasons. I'll trust them over someone like you that has to beg for a minimum wage increase because he has no skills. What's sadder than you begging is that you are the age your are and have no better skills than what a 5 year old can do.

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    The Trump losers clearly do not understand economics.

    The business model was flawed and the management inept.

    The failure had nothing to do with minimum wage.
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    Nothing worse than obviously unemployed or just public assistance collecting lefties (or righties) attempting to talk economics.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gonzomin View Post
    Restaurant chains close for lots of reasons. All those others paying it are open.https://www.epi.org/publication/wage...age-increases/ Like Trump's casinos going bankrupt. Every other one stayed open and profitable. It was a management problem. Because someone blames the wage increase does not make it so.
    Correct. Sour grapes. From the article:

    Minimum wage hikes, two disappointing restaurant openings, and consumers shunning casual dining are to blame for the bankruptcy filing, chief restructuring officer David Bagley said in court papers.
    Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sailor View Post
    Nothing worse than obviously unemployed or just public assistance collecting lefties (or righties) attempting to talk economics.
    Generally speaking, if staff is being paid more, then the tip is unnecessary, or considerably less. Most diners would pay $1 or so more/meal in order to pay for the higher wage. It's been done in quite a few shops across the nation, with great success.
    Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Althea View Post
    Generally speaking, if staff is being paid more, then the tip is unnecessary, or considerably less. Most diners would pay $1 or so more/meal in order to pay for the higher wage. It's been done in quite a few shops across the nation, with great success.
    I would argue (depending on the type establishment) that they would make more in tips than a higher minimum wage. Say you work a 40 hour week at $ 15 hr. $600 before taxes. I really do know waiters, waitresses, bartenders that can make that in tips a night. Smart ones only claim a very small amount of those tips so the IRS does not get suspicious. Not exaggerating.

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    Quote Originally Posted by volsrock View Post
    Citing higher minimum wages in Seattle, Portland, and SF, restaurant chain files for bankruptcy

    Progressives never learn. Even as Democrats running for president line up behind a national $15/hour minimum wage, on the West Coast, where cities like Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco all have implemented this demand, a restaurant chain with over 2,000 employees has filed for bankruptcy, citing the high minimum wages that have increased its costs.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog...ankruptcy.html


    when you cut and paste you need to use quotes moron.

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    Quote Originally Posted by volsrock View Post
    Citing higher minimum wages in Seattle, Portland, and SF, restaurant chain files for bankruptcy

    Progressives never learn. Even as Democrats running for president line up behind a national $15/hour minimum wage, on the West Coast, where cities like Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco all have implemented this demand, a restaurant chain with over 2,000 employees has filed for bankruptcy, citing the high minimum wages that have increased its costs.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog...ankruptcy.html


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    Quote Originally Posted by jimmymccready View Post
    The Trump losers clearly do not understand economics.

    The business model was flawed and the management inept.

    The failure had nothing to do with minimum wage.
    This w
    Lie.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sailor View Post
    I would argue (depending on the type establishment) that they would make more in tips than a higher minimum wage. Say you work a 40 hour week at $ 15 hr. $600 before taxes. I really do know waiters, waitresses, bartenders that can make that in tips a night. Smart ones only claim a very small amount of those tips so the IRS does not get suspicious. Not exaggerating.
    Nice thing about cash transactions. Hard to track.

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    Quote Originally Posted by katzgar View Post
    when you cut and paste you need to use quotes moron.
    Yes, Sir, Mr. Grammar Cop, Sir!

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    Quote Originally Posted by katzgar View Post
    YALIF, Mr Grammar Cop.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sailor View Post
    I would argue (depending on the type establishment) that they would make more in tips than a higher minimum wage. Say you work a 40 hour week at $ 15 hr. $600 before taxes. I really do know waiters, waitresses, bartenders that can make that in tips a night. Smart ones only claim a very small amount of those tips so the IRS does not get suspicious. Not exaggerating.
    I agree. They'd make less with a higher min wage. I'm addressing a failed restaurant corp. who blames the min wage for poor management, and a failed business model.

    I read of a place in NYC that went to a 'no tip' policy many years ago. They paid the staff more, and saw an uptick in quality service, as well as business. They had incentives for staff based upon performance. It worked well for everyone.
    Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sailor View Post
    I would argue (depending on the type establishment) that they would make more in tips than a higher minimum wage. Say you work a 40 hour week at $ 15 hr. $600 before taxes. I really do know waiters, waitresses, bartenders that can make that in tips a night. Smart ones only claim a very small amount of those tips so the IRS does not get suspicious. Not exaggerating.
    True. Back when I tended bar (at $6/hr) we were just supposed to report 10% of our tips. Most of just reported whatever tips were
    written in on a credit card and let the chips fall where they may. In all honesty, at the end of any given year it evened out with no problem.
    Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
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