Pastry Chefs Are in Demand, Why Aren’t Wages Rising?

Re:Pastry Chefs Are in Demand, Why Aren’t Wages Rising? by skybrian on Thursday October 13, 2016 @09:11PM (#12705520)

That might be true for a shop, but fancy restaurants have limited upside. If they're filling the seats, more demand doesn't matter that much - it just makes it harder to get a reservation. So above a reasonable level of quality, profit margin will matter more to the business.

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Re:Pastry Chefs Are in Demand, Why Aren’t Wages Rising? by varjag on Friday October 14, 2016 @06:02AM (#12707076)

They can raise the prices until the backlog of reservations is still respectable but not hopeless. That's in fact what many of them do.

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Re:Pastry Chefs Are in Demand, Why Aren’t Wages Rising? by wtvanhest on Thursday October 13, 2016 @09:18PM (#12705550)

This analogy also applies to software development. The bigger the company, the harder it is to justify a high priced incremental software hire.

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