Restaurants pay expensive rent, then pay their employees extra to pay expensive rents too (sometimes in the form of a higher minimum wage). To help with this+,

Restaurants pay expensive rent, then pay their employees extra to pay expensive rents too (sometimes in the form of a higher minimum wage). To help with this+, big US cities have for the past several decades set about making building competitive housing stock more expensive. Because some hope to escape this through a commute, these cities have also been spending more and more money than ever to build increasingly less-effective transit systems! (+ To help make it worse) Some cities have mandatory health coverage too, and some restaurants cover that without a mandate, but the increasing cost of health care is a snafu that goes all the way up to the federal level, and discussing that will be far less productive.