{"id":69736,"date":"2019-01-21T06:35:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T12:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69736"},"modified":"2019-01-18T17:43:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T23:43:42","slug":"new-york-state-of-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69736","title":{"rendered":"New York State Of Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last year, we talked about Minneapolis &#8220;it&#8221; restaurant Hell&#8217;s Kitchen which, after years of virtue-signaling its approval for things like mandatory #FightFor15 minimum wage hikes and compulsory sick time, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68027\">had had to eliminate the equivalent of five full-time, $15\/hour jobs<\/a> &#8211; partly due to bad management, partly due to hikes in bottom-line expenses, and partly due to bad management encouraging the hikes to bottom line expenses.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not just Minneapolis.   New York City restaurants are taking it right in the blintz:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thenycalliance.org\/information\/survey-results-labor-costs\" target=\"_blank\">New York City Hospitality Alliance survey<\/a>\u00a0of 574 restaurants showed that 75 percent of full-service restaurants reported plans to reduce employee hours this year in response to the latest mandated wage increase. Another 47 percent said they would eliminate jobs in 2019. Eighty-seven percent of respondents also said they would increase menu prices this year.<br>These types of cost-cutting moves coincide with a U.S. Labor Department report released last Friday showing full-service restaurants in December raised prices the most since 2011, to cover soaring labor and food costs.<br>&#8220;The money has to come from somewhere, and we found that unfortunately, as a result, businesses are making some really tough decisions which don&#8217;t only impact them, but have a negative impact on their workers as well as their diners, too,&#8221; said Andrew Rigie, executive director of the New York City Hospitality Alliance, which represents restaurants and nightlife venues throughout the five boroughs.<br>But shaving workers&#8217; hours and killing jobs limits restaurateurs&#8217; ability to offer employees opportunities for growth and development. It also can kill owners hopes of offering a fine-dining experience that delivers both good food and good service. \u00a0<br><br><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Let them eat platitudes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, we talked about Minneapolis &#8220;it&#8221; restaurant Hell&#8217;s Kitchen which, after years of virtue-signaling its approval for things like mandatory #FightFor15 minimum wage hikes and compulsory sick time, had had to eliminate the equivalent of five full-time, $15\/hour jobs &#8211; partly due to bad management, partly due to hikes in bottom-line expenses, and partly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,51,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-liberal-tyranny","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69736","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=69736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69737,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69736\/revisions\/69737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}