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2015-05-01 Economy

Evil Capitalist Pizza Shop Shuts Down Rather Than Pay Seattle's $15/Hour Min Wage

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Posted by Besoeker 2015-05-01 02:29|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Can't she employ illegals like everybody else?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-05-01 02:57|| 2015-05-01 02:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Even the illegals would have to get the $15/hr as the wage police are out in force. We even have trash pooleece that can fine you for throwing too much food in the trash rather than compost it.....
from the same mindset that builds (sometimes)floating bridges....

Posted by USN, Ret. 2015-05-01 11:33|| 2015-05-01 11:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Labor costs got you down? Cue the dramatic music as we introduce the new Pizza-bot 9000.

Posted by SteveS 2015-05-01 11:34|| 2015-05-01 11:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Didn't want to pay jizyah for the lefty religious dogmas?

Posted by JohnQC 2015-05-01 11:59|| 2015-05-01 11:59|| Front Page Top

#5 PIZZA-DRONE!!! Coming soon to your House of Pizza.

Posted by AlanC 2015-05-01 12:24|| 2015-05-01 12:24|| Front Page Top

#6 For the Left this = Mission Accomplished. They hate poor people. High minimum wages force low end jobs to leave town. Poor people work these jobs. When the jobs leave the poor people have to leave too. Mission Accomplished.

Posted by Iblis 2015-05-01 12:39|| 2015-05-01 12:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Amazon is in Seattle. Perhaps their Drones can deliver Amazon items on the way out (of Seattle) and Pizza on the way back (into Seattle). At least that way they aren't dead-heading back.

(Actually I don't think their warehouses are in Seattle proper).

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-05-01 12:50|| 2015-05-01 12:50|| Front Page Top

#8 I don't have much use for the excuse that she can't afford the higher wage. The other pizza places are in the same boat, and all will have to pass the cost increase on as higher prices. That results in inflation.

The winners will be the shops who are the most efficient with their labor (and who have the best pies).

Posted by KBK 2015-05-01 13:51|| 2015-05-01 13:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Onliest problem KBK, is if she's in a low profit margin business (she is), the income from price increases is maybe later, but the wage increase is now. You'll note that she didn't do this right after the new ordinance came in force; she's tried it out for a few weeks, and evidently the numbers aren't there, so she's cutting her losses.
She was the marginal case, and they're always the first to go. Now somebody else gets to be the marginal case.

Posted by ed in texas 2015-05-01 14:22|| 2015-05-01 14:22|| Front Page Top

#10 Some restaurants are openly adding a surcharge to cover the additional expense.

Ive seen other places close down. A 'lunch' counter in my building recently closed down. It was fairly popular as well.

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-05-01 14:37|| 2015-05-01 14:37|| Front Page Top

#11 When there are no more quick food places to eat and the few other joints that are left cost more than a plane ticket, maybe they will start to realize why they are in the fucked position they are in.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-05-01 21:27|| 2015-05-01 21:27|| Front Page Top

#12 Thanks to decades of non-deportations and allowing illegals to receive public assistance, I.E. LEGAL/POLITICAL PRECEDENTS, the same are now for all practical/effective purposes AMERICANS BY ANY OTHER NAME.

It is such that one can argue that ITS NOW THE FED THAT IS MORE THAN NOT BREAKING US LAWS BY NOT GRANTING ILLEGALS FORMAL CITIZENSHIP, I.E. "GRANTING ALL THE BENEFITS BUT NOT THE PER SE TITLE".

WHEN IS THE FED = WASHINGTON GOING TO ARREST + PUT ITSELF IN JAIL???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-05-01 21:53|| 2015-05-01 21:53|| Front Page Top

#13 'Tis the same principle as to why-n-how FBI-CIA dumbfucks are looking for the 9-11 Conspirators, but are standing right next to many of them during the flashy Washington photo-op.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-05-01 21:57|| 2015-05-01 21:57|| Front Page Top

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