Thread: Why the $15 minimum wage has been a success for this Seattle restaurant

I have no problem with an individual company raising their wage. My problem is comes when burger flippers, pizza bakers, and chicken fryers are demanding $15.00 an hour nationally. Since when is flipping burgers and bagging fries worth $15 an hour?

Also while some of these companies do just fine raising their own minimum wages including in major cities what about all those products they use. Such as a restaurant and poultry processing. Pay those workers on the bottom that make all the stuff the business consumes heavily on a daily basis then the prices must go up once again. What happens when every business that is needed to run another business that employs mostly minimum wage workers all of a sudden have a huge federally mandated wage boost? Not only does the main business costs go up from their own workers getting paid more but all the costs of goods which are usually from rural areas also goes up. Lets see these restaurants survive when costs go up 40% instead of just 21%. Plus they use as an example a nicer restaurant which is a seafood place where people expect bigger bills due to seafood prices. Lets see how it does at the coffee shops, fast food places, and normal diner's that focus on lower price simpler food. But those same places I mention are the ones already struggling with just their own labor costs going up before even thinking of labor costs associated with every single US made product they use.