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Re:It's not a labor shortage – it's a wage and workers right... by tluyben2 on Monday September 06, 2021 @06:40AM (#28432361)
There are a lot of factors we do not know here: I was an investor in a small restaurant as I wanted to keep it open after the owners quit. Upping anything on the menu $1 would've killed the business dead because all surrounding restaurants where already cheaper, but we had better cooks, however people are frugal or poor or both and they were not that much better to make the difference that much bigger. We still ran at incredibly thin margins: amounts that seems weird to me as an IT guy. It depends: depending on your location (both country and inside that country) it can very well be that you cannot up your prices even a cent or people won't come back. We had that with beer: our neighbour's restaurant upped the price of a bottle of beer with 10cts and suddenly all the regulars came to drink at ours and eat at theirs (cheaper).

A pizza place in the center of a popular city with high ratings probably can up the prices.

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Re:It's not a labor shortage – it's a wage and workers right... by bsagdiyev on Monday September 06, 2021 @07:28AM (#28432652)
Before we left San Diego I offered quite a few times to go in, unpaid, to help out. This man works 6 days a week, open to close. I don’t know what sort of upbringing people on this site seem to have but it doesn’t feel “working class” to me most of the time.
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Re:It's not a labor shortage – it's a wage and workers right... by Dudeman112 on Monday September 06, 2021 @08:03AM (#28432853)
>what sort of upbringing people on this site seem to have but it doesn’t feel “working class” to me most of the time

Some people around these parts have ardently defended that 100k USD is poverty wage and that having a net worth of 1 million doesn't make you rich.

So I'm inclined to definitely not believe "working class".

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Re:It's not a labor shortage – it's a wage and workers right... by Ma8ee on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @12:58AM (#28441086)
I must have missed those people. People here are in general not poor, but most are neither completely out of touch.
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Re:It's not a labor shortage – it's a wage and workers right... by tluyben2 on Monday September 06, 2021 @08:10AM (#28432906)
Actually helping run this place showed me how skewed this world is. I met many hospitality service owners, small ones mostly and most of them are lucky to take 5-10k profit in a year in total: that while most people I know in software and management get angry when they cannot go on multiple 10k vacations a year...
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Re:It's not a labor shortage – it's a wage and workers right... by filoeleven on Monday September 06, 2021 @07:43PM (#28439327)
How is he living in San Diego on $416 / mo?
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Re:It's not a labor shortage – it's a wage and workers right... by bsagdiyev on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @06:44AM (#28443166)
He isn’t, him and his wife earn around 40k total before tax. It’s possible but it isn’t fun. I talk about it elsewhere in the comments. She works as a preschool teacher.
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Re:It's not a labor shortage – it's a wage and workers right... by rualca on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @07:26PM (#28451079)
> Upping anything on the menu $1 would've killed the business dead (...)

You could have a point if you didn't picked an example from an industry where you count on customers to expense additional charges to subsidize employees' wages in the form of tipping.

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