This is not a new idea, and you are correct.
Other people have been saying this for decades.
As not to derail, that's as far as I'll comment in that regard.
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Closing due to LABOR SHORTAGE?
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Other people have been saying this for decades.
As not to derail, that's as far as I'll comment in that regard.
100%. Something boomers seem to forget when they're patting themselves on the back for buying a home when they were 20. My pops bought his first home after working in a factory for a year. No education, no skills, just walked in off the street and was able to afford a home after working there a year. By me today a single young male couldn't afford to rent a 1br apt working in a local factory. Might be able to get by splitting rent in a 2 or 3br, but that is it. Not a chance in hell on buying even the most rundown home in crappiest area unless they have a family member help make it happen.
One of the most popular restaurants in Malibu gets most of its staff from East LA. That's 35 miles minimum (say, Boyle Heights) and one hour without traffic, in a car. Forget public transportation.
Your communist shithole country needs to adjust the wages set by the People's Central Wage Commision For Restaurant Comrades and Comradettes.
The market would fix this if you didn't have the socialist minimum wage (a.k.a maximum wage). The greasiest restaurants should close down and the ones that can pay their staff better should increase their serving capacity.
The market would fix this if you didn't have the socialist minimum wage (a.k.a maximum wage). The greasiest restaurants should close down and the ones that can pay their staff better should increase their serving capacity.
We're going to lose our sous chef (and probably a line cook) to a new restaurant opening next month. Our head chef was being poached by a high end restaurant on the beach.
We lost our breakfast cook to someplace in Oregon last month.
We've only been open for 2 months. The kitchen staff have pick of the litter for more pay than they've ever been paid.
We pay our kitchen staff tips on top of their hourly, which essentially doubles their pay. The chefs said they've never received tips in their career.
Still can't get any of their friends (or any other cooks) to come on.
We lost our breakfast cook to someplace in Oregon last month.
We've only been open for 2 months. The kitchen staff have pick of the litter for more pay than they've ever been paid.
We pay our kitchen staff tips on top of their hourly, which essentially doubles their pay. The chefs said they've never received tips in their career.
Still can't get any of their friends (or any other cooks) to come on.
Agreed. I drive by plenty of restaurants that serve crap food and hardly anyone ever eats at, and figure it would probably be best for everyone if they threw in the towel and let someone else take over and make something better. The Covid "loans" made that process worse by artificially keeping them open instead of letting those barely-hanger-ons cycle out and letting someone with a fresh take on things do something better.
As for corporatization . . . When Starbucks became a thing, I remember tons of crappy coffee shops talking up how their sh!t didn't stink cuz "We're not Starbucks!" yet they made crap coffee. Uhhh . . . . Ok?
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I changed jobs about a month ago for a 50% salary increase. Would have stayed with the old gig for the same amount but they can't afford it. Sucks for them
Are you suggesting that we should have UBI so that more people can live in desirable areas without having to work?
I say if you want UBI, you should be required to collect it in the midwest, rural south, Bako, etc. If all you want to do is subsist on Uber Eats and play video games, then it doesn't really matter where you live, so leave the desirable places for those who are willing to hustle for it
What kind of work?
I'm not asking for you to give away y our secret identity.
Just curious where you would get the 50% raise.
Soulless greed makes capitalism go round and round?
The latter works better if you actively stamp out the former.
Im always wondering what happens when the teacher fire fighters policeman nurses and other civil servants that bought houses 20 30 years ago retire in these areas. simply not enough housing to support the number of civil servants required for these communities in the future
All of those jobs you mentioned are 6 figure + careers in California
The jobs that are more important to a functioning society, eg, sanitation, electric, water, and other utility workers are the ones we have to worry about
The sign on bonus thing is dumb. It's just a way to not pay the wages they should be paying. I guess they hope in 6 months or a year they can go back to paying less.
I'd gladly pay more for food if I didn't have to wait for it. Charge an extra $2 a plate and hire some people.
I'd gladly pay more for food if I didn't have to wait for it. Charge an extra $2 a plate and hire some people.
Don't worry the boomers will bring in immigrants and have them live 12 to a house.
Then they'll complain about the immigrants.
Huh? No, not really. It’s an incentive to encourage people to apply. I’m sure most of these places are offering a higher than usual starting pay as well.
That said, I do agree that restaurants and have gotten away with low wages for too long. However the blame for that also falls on us, as in the consumer who expects food to be cheaper and complains every time restaurants raise their prices.