This may be me suffering from Poe's law, but it seems to me that you are demonstrably worse off, even if the restaurant stayed open and you kept your job. Befor

This may be me suffering from Poe's law, but it seems to me that you are demonstrably worse off, even if the restaurant stayed open and you kept your job. Before the min-wage increase you could afford 2 lunch specials and now only 1.875, despite your income going up. Inflation gobbled up all of the gains.