Restaurants are simply a bad business to have. They are intrinsically unprofitable as there's almost no way to have a sustainable competitive advantage. So yeah

Restaurants are simply a bad business to have. They are intrinsically unprofitable as there's almost no way to have a sustainable competitive advantage. So yeah, only way to operate them is to trick clients, trick employees (and pay them below minimum wage), and cut corners everywhere - immigrants are naturally better positioned to do it because they can hire their own folks, usually illegals, speaking to them in language no one else can understand, concealing their dodgy practices. Paying under the minimum wage comes naturally because how else do you pay to an illegal working for cash? Nothing to be surprised here. Restaurants won't be fixed until big corporations figure out how to operate fancy places the way they figured low-priced one like McDonald's - it's hard but not undoable and i believe will happen at some point - then competitive advantage of scale will price out even immigrants. And hotels are fine. Hilton and Marriott are not immigrant-owned, and nothing is wrong with them (apart from the wifi that usually sucks).