Restaurants refuse to pay a living wage so they prep for long-term labor crunch by turning to robots to work the fryer, shuttle food to tables

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This one store front in a business park keeps becoming different restaurants, one after another. New owner comes in, renovates the place, puts up a new sign, nobody eats there, it closes, repeat.

The place across from me was an Indian place, became a pizza place, same dude, then finally folded.

Even the big surge of taco trucks and popup restaurants has died down.

It's hard making a restaurant work. I hear the margins are thin. Although this isn't the mom and pop places buying $3g/month robots. I'm not sure the rules should work exactly the same for big chains as well as small businesses, it's already really difficult to make it work.

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Restaurants refuse...

So tired of seeing people blame small business owners for low wages. Restaurant jobs are for teenagers and college kids to get started in the work force. When you dedicated nothing to your education, furthering your career, you're 45 and have no prospects to work.

When you own a business you get to see the costs associated with hiring people. They pay you, but what you don't see is the training costs, insurance, worker's compensation, taxes and overhead through the roof. Most business owners would LOVE to pay their workers more. More pay means happier employees, happier customers and increased retention. The fact is, bureaucrats and government policy make it insanely difficult for a small business to survive.