> High minimum wages are making it nearly impossible to run small restaurants.
Another way of putting this:
"Small restaurants can only operate at a profit if they're allowed to pay people so little they can't afford to live off of it."
Any business that can only survive by exploiting its workers does not deserve to exist.
The fact that there were many small restaurants that were operating just fine when the minimum wage was, relatively speaking, much higher (ie, you could work full-time waiting tables at minimum wage and still afford a house and kids) strongly suggests that this claim does not hold water.
Another way of putting this:
"Small restaurants can only operate at a profit if they're allowed to pay people so little they can't afford to live off of it."
Any business that can only survive by exploiting its workers does not deserve to exist.
The fact that there were many small restaurants that were operating just fine when the minimum wage was, relatively speaking, much higher (ie, you could work full-time waiting tables at minimum wage and still afford a house and kids) strongly suggests that this claim does not hold water.