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| "There's only so much you can charge for tamales" |
| 2017-05-21 |
| By Donald Sensing [SenseOfEvents] San Francisco's municipal minimum wage is eating the restaurant business there out of house and home. When San Francisco added its own municipal minimum wage in 2004--one of the first in the country--the operating assumption was that tourists and techies would pay the higher prices necessary to offset the cost of the city’s generosity. Last year the San Francisco Chronicle looked at 20 years’ of menus from top restaurants and reported that prices had jumped 52% since 2005, twice the rate of inflation. But increasing prices isn’t a panacea for restaurant owners. "There’s only so much you can charge for tamales," the owner of a small eatery said in 2015 to explain one reason he was closing. Read the whole thing. But fairness, comrades! |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #10 "There's only so much you can charge for tamales" On Mother's day, younger son took us out to a very upscale "mexican" restaurant. Wife got the tamale plate; the tamales averaged nine bucks a pop. I kind you not. (Eight bucks for a Dos Equis.) |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2017-05-21 19:44 |
| #9 Rising costs chipped away at the restaurant’s profitability, according to a report by Thrillist, driving down the profit margin from 8.5% in 2012 to 1.5% by 2015. Profit margin? You capitalist pig, you don't need no stinkin' profit margin! |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-05-21 15:25 |
| #8 It's not an opinion though, it's maths. people only buy when value < cost. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2017-05-21 14:32 |
| #7 Moved to Opinion. Most blog posts belong in opinion, except the ones that belong on Page 6: Seedy Politics. Yes, I know it still says Seedy Politicians, but we expanded it because we're living in the Crazy Years. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-05-21 14:28 |
| #6 Bring back the corner hotdog wagons. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-05-21 09:41 |
| #5 Similar, if a bit better, link here. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-05-21 08:13 |
| #4 ... so much for the idea of bringing in so many illegal tamale eaters ... |
| Posted by: Heriberto Panda4834 2017-05-21 05:54 |
| #3 So a clickthrough to a blog, which has nothing on it but a link to another site. The other site is subscription only. Read the whole thing indeed. GJ |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 2017-05-21 04:16 |
| #2 Chain those swindlers and thieves to the counters, make them feed the masses. Eating justice is social justice! |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2017-05-21 03:42 |
| #1 Jerry Brown, the Maduro of anti-capitalist California. |
| Posted by: Lumpy Thud3074 2017-05-21 03:41 |