It's not a labor shortage – it's a wage and workers rights shortage

Re:It's not a labor shortage – it's a wage and workers right... by MeinBlutIstBlau on Sunday September 05, 2021 @01:52PM (#28426194)

Most restaurants operate on very slim margins. That's why many smaller financial institutions do not risk commercial loans on them unless they've been established for a while or it's guaranteed by an SBA loan which heavily minimizes the financials risk.

Honestly I feel like most people would pay it. It seems to me that everybody just accepts you pay like 10x the price of what you could make something yourself as reasonable. I don't get it and it irks me that we even need to participate in this facade that we're all some sort of royalty class that are entitled this.

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Re:It's not a labor shortage – it's a wage and workers right... by mananaysiempre on Sunday September 05, 2021 @02:06PM (#28426336)

Something inexpensive that enables people to pay for not going to the effort to cook relatively tasty food exists everywhere that’s large enough to support the overhead, since before the modern times. It doesn’t have to be particularly good or healthy, but it does exist. In some European cities supermarkets just sell packaged premade salads and pasta, for example.

Personal service might be more expensive overall, but I’m not ready to immediately declare that obvious just because the people behind it are visible to the buyer.

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Re:It's not a labor shortage – it's a wage and workers right... by bluedino on Sunday September 05, 2021 @01:59PM (#28426260)

It does seem like we're in a good bubble. People eat out probably 10x more a month than they did 30 years ago. Now with delivery on top of that...

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