Price hikes brought about by New York City’s new $15 minimum wage are causing some consumer heartburn. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unexpectedly<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some New Yorkers are displeased with one of the more predictable outcomes of a $15 minimum wage\u2014restaurants all over the city are raising their prices, according to the\u00a0New York Post<\/a>. “But…but, it’s from The Blaze<\/em>! Your source has a point of view, and therefore is invalid!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The same precise story is behind the lines of this story from that noted conservative tool, the <\/a>Star\u00a0Tribune,\u00a0<\/a><\/em>from last year<\/a>; a local restaurant mainstay is losing customers, price point and restaurant jobs due in large part to all that social justice they’re paying for. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Price hikes brought about by New York City’s new $15 minimum wage are causing some consumer heartburn. Unexpectedly: Some New Yorkers are displeased with one of the more predictable outcomes of a $15 minimum wage\u2014restaurants all over the city are raising their prices, according to the\u00a0New York Post. The city’s minimum wage went up to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[374,69],"tags":[409],"class_list":["post-70048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-justice","category-socialism","tag-unexpected"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70048","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=70048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70049,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70048\/revisions\/70049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The city’s minimum wage went up to $15 from $13 or $13.50 at the beginning of 2019, boosting the paychecks for numerous lower-wage workers.
Those who rely on restaurants regularly for their daily lunches, however, aren’t as happy.
“It’s obnoxious\u2014kind of a slap in the face,” Starbucks patron Edward Beck told the Post. “Another increase, and I won’t come back.”
Restaurants are raising prices to adjust for the higher salaries they must pay workers. But, they’re increasingly worried about discouraging customers with too-high prices.
“[Restaurants] feel they’re getting to a point where the customer might reject the higher prices, choose a different way to eat out, or eat their own food,” said Melissa Fleischut, president and CEO of the New York State Restaurant Association.
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