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Title: NYC loses 1K restaurants, Applebee's fires 1k w/$15 min. wage
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URL Source: https://www.onenewsnow.com/business ... plebees-fires-1k-w-15-min-wage
Published: Jul 16, 2017
Author: aa
Post Date: 2017-07-16 23:31:51 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Restaurant owners, waiters and waitresses are not the only ones hurt by the progressive policy. “[L]iberals’ minimum wage demands have done severe damage to Seattle's and New York’s businesses,” Townhall reported. “Instead of typical servers, [the CEO of Applebee’s New York franchise, Zane Tankel] explained that they will soon be replaced by concierges, who merely check on customers from time to time to make them feel ‘warm and comfortable.’" Liberals attack eateries Tankel maintains that the far Left-leaning Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) and Democratic New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio have not only wreaked havoc for businesses and their employees – they have detrimentally affected the dining experiences of countless New Yorkers. "The model now that we're heading towards – where we had one server for three or four tables – we're moving towards one server for 10 tables … eliminating about two-thirds of our labor ultimately,” he explained, according to Townhall. “But it's because of Cuomo, De Blasio – the liberal agenda." The restauranteur maintained that he was forced to make major changes in order for his business to survive. “If something becomes prohibitively priced, you find an alternative,” Tankel told Newsbusters.“I've always said increasing minimum wage is technology's best friend. We have 1,000 less servers this time this year than we had this time last year.” The rationale liberals give for the excessive minimum wage hike is that they are helping low wage earners enter the workforce on a higher rung of the income ladder, but many contend that it is making for more economic hardships than helping out. “[I]f you don't have a job, $100 an hour doesn't help you a whole lot, does it?” Tankel posed to Newsbusters. Liberal policy, negative impact Everyone in the restaurant industry is being negatively affected by liberals forcing their agenda on businesses. “The Empire State lost 1,000 restaurants last year and the number of jobs as cooks, servers and dishwashers grew by an anemic 1.4 percent,” the New York Post reported. “That’s a far cry from the 4.4 percent annual growth the state’s eateries enjoyed from 2010 to 2015, according to the Employment Policies Institute – a nonprofit research group. And the liberal policy has slowed down profits in the fast food industry, as well. “Employment growth at fast-food restaurants in the city – which are required to pay $12 an hour, or $1 more than other employers – shriveled to 3.4 percent last year, compared with 7 percent growth from 2010 to 2015,” the Post’s Lisa Fickenscher informed. “The spiral has continued into 2017, which has generated just 2 percent growth through May.” This downward trend is more intense in more formal and sit-down eateries. “Full-service restaurants in the city are adding even fewer jobs, with growth at just 1.3 percent last year compared to 6.5 percent over the previous five years,” Fickenscher added. “This year it’s down to 1.2 percent through May.” Employment Policies Institute (EPI) Managing Director Michael Saltsman maintains that even modern-era declines in the economy have not had such a negative impact on the food service industry as new spike in wages. “This is a drop-off in restaurant growth that didn’t even show up during the great recession,” Saltsman said, according to the Post. “It’s compelling evidence that something big is going on.” The downward spiral has continued ever since the initial Democrat-pushed wage hike launched last year. “Some economists point to a rise in pay that began in 2016 when the state began implementing a series of minimum wage increases that will bring the hourly rate to $15 by 2019 for some employers in the city and more gradually in other parts of the state,” Fickenscher noted. “On Dec. 31, 2015, the minimum wage for tipped restaurant employees rose by 50 percent, from $5 an hour to $7.50 an hour. For fast food workers, it rose by as much as 20 percent, from $8.75 to $10.50 – depending on business size and location. And on Dec. 31, the minimum wage for fast food employees rose as high as $12 in New York City, Saltsman notes. Meanwhile, the statewide minimum wage rose to between $9.70 and $11 an hour for non-fast food, non-tipped employees.” National Restaurant Association Director of State and Local Government Affairs Mike Whatley says that the negative effects the wage hikes are taking on the restaurant industry have only just begun. “We are beginning to see the harmful effects of drastic minimum wage increases that previous studies have predicted,” Whatley insisted, according to the Post. Andrew Schnipper – owner of a chain of five burger joints in the Manhattan area – says the wage hike has been insufferable. “It’s a miserable business at the moment,” the owner of Schnipper’s Quality Kitchen complained, according to the Post. “Most restaurateurs are far less profitable than they were a year ago.” In locations such as New York, which is renowned across the globe for its quality eateries, the problem of the wage hike is compounded. “Other experts point to high rents and oversaturation in the foodie capital of the world, where nearly every growing restaurant chain wants to plant a flag and become the next Shake Shack,” Fickenscher pointed out. One expert on city and state economics, James Parrot – who formerly served with the Fiscal Policy Institute – noted that even though employment at restaurants from coast to coast has been on the decline this year, the plummet in New York is much more severe, yet because the Big Apple continues to be a Mecca for eating out, it still maintained a modest rise. “It’s unusual for growth like that to be sustained forever,” Parrot explained to the Post. “Restaurant employment [in New York] overall is still increasing and average wages grew about 6 percent in 2016.” However, the wage hike is expected to continue eating away at the restaurant industry in the months and years to come. “Schnipper’s, for example, has 10 percent fewer employees than it did a year ago, and many of its current workers have reduced hours,” Fickenscher informed. “The chain raised its menu prices by up to 4 percent last year and is planning another hike this summer, and another one in January – when the minimum wage in the city rises to $13. Meanwhile, sales have slipped this year.” The many negative factors to boosting the minimum wage – including less attentive service and longer waits – are leaving many restaurant owners and managers wondering what measures they were forced to implement are taking their toll on business. “It’s hard to know whether customers are scared off by higher prices,” Schnipper told the Post.
The $15 minimum wage that Leftist politicians pushed through in Seattle and New York City has taken a major toll on many businesses, with the Big Apple losing a devastating 1,000 restaurants – while the popular chain Applebee’s had to fire more than 1,000 servers to accommodate the liberal minimum wage hike there.
The Big Apple accounts for the lion’s share of the state’s growth – and the slowdowns in the city are more dramatic.”
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#2. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)
This means that Mini-Mario and the DNC plan is working perfectly. Their plan is NOT to increase the income of voters,but to put them out of work so they go on unemployment and/or welfare and remain cogs in the Dim Machine. And they are PURPOSELY doing this while pretending to care about those people that they actually see as nothing more than serfs. Useful tools/useful fools. Anybody that thinks the higher minimum wage plan is anything other than a Dim voter recruitment tool is a fool. Their ultimate goal has always been to made the citizens dependent on them. Think "Kinder,gentler,Stalin".
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Excellent video! IMHO,that guy really put his thumb print all over that problem. It also explained things in a way that made me happy to have been born autistic. Yeah,I am brighter than most people,but so what? It's not something I can be proud of because it's something I had and have no control over. Most of my life it has caused me more trouble that it has been of benefit to me. The one exception was in the army. The army is a literal world. You don't have to wonder or guess what someone means when they tell you that you are going to go somewhere and do something,or that you need to do something. You know exactly what you are going to do and why or you wouldn't be going there. The only exceptions I can think of to this is privates,who only need to follow orders because they are in charge of and responsible for nothing. As for facebook and the other social media crap,I never have understood social crap anyway,so I have no interest in it. I have a FB page,but only to make sure nobody else starts one with my name. I think I MAY have checked it last year,but am not real certain about that. I just don't care. The other good thing about autism is while I have learned to appreciate approval from others,I don't really need it to feel good about myself. I feel good about myself by just doing whatever it is I am trying to do to the best of my ability,and having the result be what I was going for. Appreciation or applause from other people always made me uncomfortable because I didn't understand it. I still don't really understand it,but I have reached the point where I understand the difference between congratulations and mocking. Being autistic means being anal,and when you are anal,no job is ever done well enough. There is always room for improvement. The up side is you never get stressed from seeking approval from outside sources because you don't give a damn what they think. If it pleases you that's good enough. You only ask occasionally for reality check purposes. I just wish I had learned all this stuff before age 50. It would have made life less frustrating. Growing up,we ALL think that everyone else thinks just like we do,and it's frustrating when dealing with people who don't seem to understand the point you are making or the goal you are setting when it all seems perfectly obvious to you. You tend to think they DO understand it,and are just screwing with you. When you come to understand what is really happening,you lose the anger and look for another approach to explain what you are saying so it is understood by all. The problem is really with you,not them. Knowing this makes a difference.
You are not missing a lot on FB. Zuckerberg caved and allowed the Chinese to censor FB just so he could get access to the market. ;)
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest“The Empire State lost 1,000 restaurants last year and the number of jobs as cooks, servers and dishwashers grew by an anemic 1.4 percent,” the New York Post reported.
#3. To: sneakypete (#2)
Think "Kinder,gentler,Stalin".
#4. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#3)
#6. To: sneakypete (#4)
I have a FB page,but only to make sure nobody else starts one with my name. I think I MAY have checked it last year,but am not real certain about that. I just don't care.
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