Workers are just human fodder, who just gum up the works and get in the way of the dreams of some tin-pot "small business" owner, just a glorified term for a guy running a restaurant. That's the view of a low life who is whining about the proposal to raise the minimum wage for waiters, a minimum wage that was set much lower than the minimum wage for everyone else because of the power of the restaurant lobby. And it's indicative of the philosophy underlying the opposition to hiking the minimum wage (a very meek and mild proposal, as an aside)
In the bill being advanced by Democrats in Congress to raise the overall minimum wage, there is also a proposal to raise the wage for tipped workers to at least $7.10 an hour from the paltry $2.13 now being paid. The scam over these many years was that waiters earned a great bounty from tips so restaurant owners were "blessed" by having to pay a far lower minimum wage...hovering around Third World sweatshop levels.
And, oh, boy, the world would come to an end if a waiter earned more:
Mr. Garner, co-owner of the Glory Days Grill restaurant chain here in Maryland and northern Virginia, sides with many Republicans and much of the restaurant industry in opposing the move, which would primarily affect workers in the restaurant trade.
"It creates an existential threat to the business model I've been involved in for the last 35 years," Mr. Garner said.[emphasis added]
Poverty is even a greater danger to waiters:
A report prepared by the White House Council of Economic Advisers, the Labor Department and others said tipped workers are twice as likely as other workers to experience poverty, and almost three times as likely if they are waiters. Nearly three-quarters of tipped workers are women, and about half of all tipped workers would earn more under the proposal, the report estimated[emphasis added].
By the way, in Australia, the minimum wage for a restaurant worker is $15.96 an hour, and, though tipping is not expected, tips comes on top of that, not to mention free national health care AND a legally mandated 9 percent employer contribution into a pension plan (superannuation fund, which works essentially like an IRA). And, based on personal observation, restaurants are doing just fine in Australia.
So, bottom line is this: if you want to hug your "business model", which essentially thrives on the poverty of your workers, go fuck yourself. Go out of business. Go work changing bed pans in a hospital--see how that feels. You greedy fuck.
Because it's just time, time to stop bowing down to that idiotic "business model" that favors this kind of greedy fuck over the people who actually make him his money.