re: Waffle House workers are the latest group to strike, requesting $25 per hour

I’m saying that restaurants are built on a formula of costs in order to have a menu that people will buy.

X% wages of employees (cooks, waitresses, etc)
Y% for food costs
Z% for building costs (utilities, rent, taxes, etc)

If one of those inputs goes way up, it threatens the prices on the menu. If the prices go up too much, people stop buying and they shut down.


Should wages be artificially depressed for sales? No. But artificially increasing them sure as frick will drive down sales, especially since inflation is already driving up the costs of food like eggs and beef.