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Restaurant customers are quite sensitive to price increases. This is why restaurants sometimes reduce the size of meals instead of raising prices. In any case,
by crdoconnor 9y ago
Restaurant customers are quite sensitive to price increases. This is why restaurants sometimes reduce the size of meals instead of raising prices.
In any case, the real reason for the article and its complaints about a "tight" labor market is to lobby for low wage immigration:
"Our industry is very much in need of a temporary visa program for the low-skilled, essential workers,” said Shannon Meade, the National Restaurant Association’s director of labor and work force policy. "
Translation : pretty please send cheap labor our way; our profit margins aren't high enough.
- mc32 9y agoPretty much that. Then we go full circle and need to add additional services to support people who need to take two hubs to survive. Switzerland seems to have achieved some balance in this regard. Japan too, although their wages are artificially depressed via other means.
- jmagoon 9y agoYep. Having worked in the restaurant industry, it also means they don't want to pay healthcare, give sick / vacation time, or even hire enough employees to cover all shifts. ("Oops, no one is scheduled for tonight, guess you have to work a double!") It's way easier to exploit temp visa workers who are a missed shift away from getting deported. I actually really loved working in a kitchen but it's absurd how bad the labor conditions are.