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Lol, “we can’t serve lunch to rich people unless someone is payed starvation wages” is not the high ground they think it is.

You know they’re idiots because someone approved using papyrus for their sign.

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I suspect that the same someone who approved that sign also designed it themselves to save a buck and then later had a meltdown about their lack of employer rights.

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If your business can’t survive without paying slave wages then your business shouldn’t survive.

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And they don’t get that it’s not the regulations demanding fair wages that are the enemy. It’s low wages and high costs for their potential customers that is killing their business.

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They got a PPP loan.

but the question is. Did they use the PPP loan like they were supposed to?

because so many of those PPP loans just ended up being free money for owners/executives and the bottom rung workers who needed it most didnt see a dime.

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“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.” -FDR

If you want to use a quote to make a point about equalitariansm maybe don’t pick one from a guy who threw 200,000 Americans into concentration camps

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Also why is their voice so fucking amplified. Like why are we forced to hear their whiny bitching about how they have to pay a marginally better wage to their employees. ABC just went out of their way to find one annoying prick and gave them a platform to spew their procapitalist garbage. And if you have ever eaten at a place like this, the food is the most generic bland shit imaginable. These are the pricks who are complaining, exactly the kinda entitled fuckers you would expect.

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Yep.

Plenty of places are thriving with higher minimum wage.

This restaurant crying this hard isnt because they cant afford the wages. Its that owners grew fat on the exploitation, and will now have to slim their excess to pay proper, fair wages.

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“Employers are unprotected. We have no rights. We don’t get overtime or breaks. The only thing we get is what’s left over after everyone else takes their cut. At some point, the risk outweighs the reward.”

Right, that’s what Entrepreneurship is. You take the big risks for the potential for big rewards. If you’re not earning enough after paying all the bills, maybe your business model isn’t viable.

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Imagine being such a dumbass that you can’t figure out how to make your business look superficially good and sell it to some schmuck or load it up with debt and bail. Employers have the game completely rigged in their favor, they just have to know how to play the game. It’s shocking that someone who decided living in Redding was a good idea would be so stupid.

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They sound so entitled. Too bad they’re not profitable enough to hire a PR consultant because his statement was horrible.

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If he’s not getting paid enough working for himself, he should go work for someone who pays better and offers all those breaks and overtime.

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They don’t even take big risks. The company does. If they fund the company themselves rather than get an investment or a loan, they are just bad at the job. If the company fails, then the worst thing that happens to an entrepreneur is that they have to find a real job like the rest of us.

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lolll it’s a fine dining restaurant too. nothing worse than making dozens of meals per hour that each cost far more than you make per hour

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I bet rent takes a bigger chunk out of their business compared to wages, but you never hear these types complain about their landlord.

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In Redding? No chance. Labor is usually about 30% of gross sales, about the same as COGS (ingredients). Recommended rent and associated fees are in the 6-10% range of gross sales. I don’t imagine Redding has sky high rents like an urban center.

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“Make that path easier. Make it less expensive, make it more simple, streamline it. Instead of putting roadblocks in front of it, open it up. Guide people,” Che said.

Moonstone Bistro owners, Che and Tanya Stedman

When asked whether they felt it was disrespectful to those who work minimum wage jobs to downplay their importance, the Stedmans were direct.

“Tanya and I are the reason why this business exists, not the opposite,” Che told KRCR’s Sam Chimenti on Wednesday. “If we stopped working, these jobs disappear. Don’t make it sound like we’re terrible because we’re undervaluing people’s work. I think it’s time for us to understand that our work is being undervalued, and that we’re being told that we are terrible people because we are not giving enough.”

So close.…

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