Re:SF is so expensive that waiters can no longer afford to l...
by deadmetheny on Thursday December 13, 2018 @12:10PM
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I own a foodservice establishment. Labor is absolutely our biggest expenditure immediately after rent. Additionally, that "endless supply of cheap labor" still needs to be reliable enough and able to actually show up, plus costs in hiring and training and all of that sort of thing. This isn't coming from some webshit programmer, this is what I see every day.
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Re:SF is so expensive that waiters can no longer afford to l...
by yholio on Thursday December 13, 2018 @02:30PM
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Of course. But is your business in the center of a major metropolis and as a consequence of that, pais for labour a multiplier proportional to other costs in the area, like rent and services? I doubt it, you might have higher costs but you don't pay 3x the average waiter salary.