{"id":11934,"date":"2010-07-08T07:22:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T12:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11934"},"modified":"2010-07-08T09:26:54","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T14:26:54","slug":"a-tip-for-the-local-dflmedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11934","title":{"rendered":"A Tip For The Local DFL\/Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Writing over at True North, Sheila Corbett Kihne – a former restaurant hostess – explains to the likes of John Tevlin and pretty much every leftyblogger how the restaurant trade works<\/a>…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

….since it seems none of them know anything about the business at all:<\/p>\n

Now- let’s look at a basic scenario. Waitstaff gets paid $6.00 per hour by the employer- employer is given the OPTION to pay them $2.50 an hour and the employee has to make up that $3.50 per hour in tips. That equates to one table per hour with a Republican customer and a $18 tab (or with a Democrat a $24 tab.)<\/p>\n

Employer saves $3.50 per hour, $140 per week, $560 per month, $6,720 per year multiplied by an entire waitstaff this is a TON of money. Money that would most likely be spent on expanding or improving the business. (Newflash to those who have never been in the restaurant business: there is not a lot of extra cash and most cash gets thrown right back into growing the business or saving money to handle the downturns.)<\/p>\n

Perhaps a restaurant owner chooses to hire a better chef at a higher salary, word gets out that the food is excellent and business grows. Perhaps they decide to take out some new advertising to bring in new business. Perhaps they open a new patio or buy some nicer tables and chairs. Maybe they save up to open a second location. All of these things could give them the competitive edge they need to survive in this crappy economy. And if they’re able to survive they don’t have to layoff employees, if they’re somehow able to thrive maybe they can even hire more employees. Have you been to a restaurant lately? Unless it’s McDonalds, they’re all struggling. How much in commercial property taxes does the government lose when one closes? How much in sales tax, income tax?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sheila also notes a factoid that virtually none of the Twin Cities’ media’s chattering classes can bother to mention; 43 states currently have the law that Emmer is proposing; as I’ve noted here in the past, Minnesota had the same law until 1990, when a DFL-controlled legislature insisted the lot of waitresses would improve greatly with a mandatory minimum wage – which, combined with Minnesota’s deeply stupid smoking law has left a lot of waitstaff out of work over the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Writing over at True North, Sheila Corbett Kihne – a former restaurant hostess – explains to the likes of John Tevlin and pretty much every leftyblogger how the restaurant trade works… ….since it seems none of them know anything about the business at all: Now- let’s look at a basic scenario. Waitstaff gets paid $6.00 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-campaign-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11936,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11934\/revisions\/11936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}