Because the PC Capital of the World Seattle [Cess Pool] decided to elect a socialist to the city council who then got a bunch of burger flippers together to start protests for higher FOCED wages even though Washington State has already near the highest minimum wage in the country that wasn't good enough for the people.
Burger flipping jobs and ones like that are a stepping stone to better jobs they were never meant to be career jobs or jobs that you could afford to buy a house on.
But oh no reality for people that have never owned a business doesn't come into view.
And now below you can read about another person who works their butt off who is now paying the price because of these scum bag politicians and the idiots in Seattle who vote for them.
This country is one big bad joke!
PS. My son is currently flipping burgers in order to get to a better job and he understands completely no way the skills to do it deserve more money. Thank God for having a son who hasn't got the entitlement disease in him.
Another restaurant falls victim to Seattle's wage law
BY KIPP ROBERTSON, MyNorthwest.com | May 1, 2015 @ 5:39 am
Z Pizza may have recently begun making a profit, but owner Ritu Shah Burnham said it won't last long.
"I can't continue to struggle and work as hard as I do and not get any return," Burnham told KIRO Radio's Dori Monson. "The numbers don't work."
Z Pizza, the only one in the Pacific Northwest, according to Burnham, will close in about four months. The pizza restaurant employs 12 people. Burnham began working more and cutting shifts to help the business break even, she told Dori.
Z Pizza's began breaking even in 2014. By January 2016, if the restaurant does not see a 20 percent increase in profit, it will lose money.
"I don't want to go backwards and I feel like I would be," she said on air. She would need an "astronomical" amount of revenue to match the requirements of the minimum wage law.
Seattle's wage law went into effect April 1. The law gives businesses the option to phase in higher wages over several years.
Businesses with more than 500 employees nationally have three years; those providing health insurance will have four. According to Seattle's roll-out schedule, employees working for these large companies should be making at least $11 per hour.
Smaller businesses will have seven years to phase in the higher wages, which will include consideration for tips and healthcare costs.
Burnham said labor costs are 33 percent of her expenses. That's going to jump to about 50 percent in 2016.
Franchise businesses, such as Z Pizza and Subway, are considered large employers.
Businesses such as Z Pizza can't just — at the snap of a finger — increase the amount of customers they need to meet the new wage requirements, Dori said. And if they raise prices, they're apt to drive customers away.
Dori told Burnham his biggest frustration with the minimum wage law is that it is being coordinated by "career politicians" who have never worked in the private sector.
Will Burnham consider opening another business in Seattle? Dori wanted to know.
"No," she responded.
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