re: Prices of goods we use every day are rising at their fastest pace in three years

I think its a combo of things with the unemployment/stimulus being the center. When we were at 25/50% capacity, you didn't need as many employees. If you tried to keep more than you needed, their hours were slashed. They were in a tight spot.

People also just left the industry altogether. Plenty of these were in it for awhile and they just needed the nudge out the door.

I dint think you're going to get some number to appease yall though

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The complaint I've seen is they can't even hire anyone because the labor pool is sitting at home drawing unemployment because it pays more than what they can earn at the restaurant. While I'm sure that is happening, what me and the other poster are wondering is at what level it is happening. There seems to be a general sentiment that it 100% the cause of it.

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I don't think servers/bartenders are making more at home on unemployment than they were making in tips, but some people will happily take a pay decrease to sit around at home as long as it covers their bills.

Back of house staff is definitely making more on unemployment because they aren't paid all that amazingly to begin with.

As you said, the solution to this is to pay them more, but what this means for you and me is that our hamburger is $17+ to afford this. Restaurants mostly run on very low margins.

During the peak of the pandemic, rather than raise prices dramatically, restaurant owners instead used the service fees and tips from the FOH staff and evenly distributed it to all employees. This is the kind of thing that causes all your good servers/bartenders to bail because they're now giving their tip money away and making less just to keep the BOH employees from staying home collecting unemployment.

Basically, at the end of the day, we all will be getting passed the torch in the form of increased prices.

Question is whether this leads to a decline in going out altogether.

I said I think. We are having a discussion here. I don't know the exact answer, he doesn't know it, we both acknowledged that.

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As you said, the solution to this is to pay them more, but what this means for you and me is that our hamburger is $17+ to afford this.

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Does it? What percentage is DL to total price? A rise in one input is not linear to price of your product.

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Restaurants mostly run on very low margins.

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What is the leading contributor to this? Would labor prices rising cause prices to rise or would it cause a change in model or would it cause a small reduction in that input?

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What are your qualifications for anyone to value your opinion?

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That can be said to every one on here. We all have our opinions and assumptions. No one knows what is going to happen with any degree of certainty.

Pure speculation.

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Decrease in illegal immigration
Lowered taxes (immediate boost in my take home pay)
Passed bill to stop anti racism in schools (was being discussed in my child’s school)
Confirmed 3 non progressive Supreme Court judges

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Going to let you in on a secret. Here goes.

The outgoing admin has measures in place the incoming admin "fixes". This creates the illusion one side is more caring or advantageous than the predecessor.

Morality. Taxes. Social. Safety. Jobs. Education. Fiscal. Hunger. Trade. Constitution.

The successor stumps to "change" those ills that are broken.

In the end, the money you were given on your paycheck for a period of time were siphoned in myriad of other ways. Even as simple as an increase in F150 prices. Or 401K losses. Credit card debt. You name it.

It's a scam. There is no such thing as D or R. It's all a ponzi.

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Who should conservatives have voted for last November?

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The republican candidate. Then when he lost, they should have accepted the results like every other losing candidate before him did and moved on. Yet here we are today where Liz Cheney is being removed from her leadership position because she doesn't toe the party line that Trump won, and you have a parade of republican lawmakers making trips to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring.

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At this point, Republicans/conservatives are simply a speed bump on the road to extreme leftist policies.

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Yes, that's what Democrats have been saying since 2008. The conservative party is no longer a party of ideas, they're a party of obstruction.

Jesus Christ dude it’s a message board. People are allowed to conversate about shite


Who the frick are YOU to question anybody??

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Anecdotal from managers of a few places I frequent

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So you are using a hyperlocal example in a passer by conversation?

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That's about the extent of my research into that industry

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So, essentially, you don't know shite

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My only hope is the rest of the world is so screwed it offsets the damage we’ve done to ourself.

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Europe, India, and parts of asia, yeah. Japan specifically.

Canada too