Bowser repealing minimum wage increases. What

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Anonymous wrote:She is the the worst.

Bowser is 100% MAGA.

She sucks but she isn't MAGA. Just stop.

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Anonymous wrote:as restaurant prices and eating out became unaffordable and people stayed home, it became hurtful to businesses. I guess they became a tipping point that even Bowser could not be behind. I’m surprised by this.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/initiative-82-bowser-calls-repeal-controversial-dc-ballot-measure?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR6V1DmHfXLnX4J-dcJ7hrLOQP6NnCpfATt_pGl7oBk1EtYPv6g_cv-u_PgDVA_aem_mAwa8UgHQkCElMXrGwvkvA

WASHINGTON - D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has announced plans to repeal Initiative 82, the voter-approved measure that gradually increases the minimum wage for tipped workers to match that of non-tipped employees

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Anonymous wrote:Bowser also supports trump’s draconian RTO he rammed through, plus trump-stadium.

Bowser has turned 100% MAGA / MAHA.

MAHA is very fringe and limited to the Mountain west and conservative parts of California. I don’t think Mayor Bowser follows that movement.

People, get a grip. I am hardly MAGA and think people need to go back into the office. It's a pretty wide spread sentiment among those of us running companies.

The stadium, hell yes!

If you can't afford to go out to eat, don't, but I don't want empty vacant spaces based on a stupid anti-business law.

People forget that businesses keep DC open, not the other way around. You assume that all businesses are rich and it's not true.

The stadium is going to be paid for by taxing businesses according to their revenue. But that's not a "stupid anti-business law"? But yet a policy, supported by an overwhelming majority of voters, to unify the city's minimum wage is? Restaurants have vacant spaces because their customers are sick of being nickel and dimed with stupid junk fees. Customers will come back when their owners grow up.

You are a little dense. You can't change a business model in the middle of a restaurant's lease and then wonder why they can't make it.

DC is most anti-business friendly city I know of. We are paying for it.

You are even denser if you think anyone on here will buy the argument that the repeal of I-82 will take the DC restaurant industry back to the glory days of 2019.

And you are shameless if you advocate for policies that benefit restaurant owners and a handful of high-earning waitstaff over everyone else in the industry and, more to the point, the public at large.

Seven states - Alaska, California, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington - all have adopted policies identical to I-82. Competent restauranteurs don't seem to face much difficulty making money in these states.

Those restaurants in those states aren't competing with tons of places across the river or down the road. There is no comparison.

I-82 was a solution in search of a problem. Most servers were against it - it was the prog left that pushed this nonsense.

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Anonymous wrote:Bowser also supports trump’s draconian RTO he rammed through, plus trump-stadium.

Bowser has turned 100% MAGA / MAHA.

MAHA is very fringe and limited to the Mountain west and conservative parts of California. I don’t think Mayor Bowser follows that movement.

People, get a grip. I am hardly MAGA and think people need to go back into the office. It's a pretty wide spread sentiment among those of us running companies.

The stadium, hell yes!

If you can't afford to go out to eat, don't, but I don't want empty vacant spaces based on a stupid anti-business law.

People forget that businesses keep DC open, not the other way around. You assume that all businesses are rich and it's not true.

The stadium is going to be paid for by taxing businesses according to their revenue. But that's not a "stupid anti-business law"? But yet a policy, supported by an overwhelming majority of voters, to unify the city's minimum wage is? Restaurants have vacant spaces because their customers are sick of being nickel and dimed with stupid junk fees. Customers will come back when their owners grow up.

You are a little dense. You can't change a business model in the middle of a restaurant's lease and then wonder why they can't make it.

DC is most anti-business friendly city I know of. We are paying for it.

You are even denser if you think anyone on here will buy the argument that the repeal of I-82 will take the DC restaurant industry back to the glory days of 2019.

And you are shameless if you advocate for policies that benefit restaurant owners and a handful of high-earning waitstaff over everyone else in the industry and, more to the point, the public at large.

Seven states - Alaska, California, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington - all have adopted policies identical to I-82. Competent restauranteurs don't seem to face much difficulty making money in these states.

Those restaurants in those states aren't competing with tons of places across the river or down the road. There is no comparison.

I-82 was a solution in search of a problem. Most servers were against it - it was the prog left that pushed this nonsense.

The notion that restaurants in downtown DC are competing with those in Arlington, Alexandria, Fairfax, Bethesda, and Silver Spring is not a serious argument.

As a restaurant patron, I will take my business to whichever establishments can be transparent about this much I’m expected to pay. Any menu with prices including tips and taxes will win me over any time.

But DC restauranteurs by and large went the other way and used I-82 as an excuse to engage in wanton deception, introducing all manner of junk fees that pissed off loyal customers. Not a tear will be shed for the loss of any restaurants owned and run by dorks that engage in this crap.

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I think a lot of people don't have the extra money for eating out and are tightening their belts with insurance doubling over the past three years and groceries, dry cleaning, coffee shops, and schools almost everything inflated they can't afford to go out.

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To ask restaurant owners to essentially double their payrolls while all of their other costs were skyrocketing is a recipe for what we have now. The people who pushed for this are deeply unserious people -- entirely white, entirely privileged, blind to that privilege -- who have done far more harm than good for the people whose lives they allegedly are trying to improve.

https://districtdig.com/2025/06/19/hit-pause/

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I’d be all for paying everyone at least minimum wage - and then I don’t need to tip anymore. Burt his doing both nonsense is crazy.

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Bowser is a total MAGA !

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Anonymous wrote:Bowser is a total MAGA !

She's not MAGA, but she plays one on TV! At least for the next 3.5 years...

Not great, but clearly she's trying to stay in the King's good graces. But not sure he actually rewards loyalty and he is already doing stuff to punish DC. Could he go out of his way to punish DC more, probably.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bowser also supports trump’s draconian RTO he rammed through, plus trump-stadium.

Bowser has turned 100% MAGA / MAHA.

MAHA is very fringe and limited to the Mountain west and conservative parts of California. I don’t think Mayor Bowser follows that movement.

People, get a grip. I am hardly MAGA and think people need to go back into the office. It's a pretty wide spread sentiment among those of us running companies.

The stadium, hell yes!

If you can't afford to go out to eat, don't, but I don't want empty vacant spaces based on a stupid anti-business law.

People forget that businesses keep DC open, not the other way around. You assume that all businesses are rich and it's not true.

The stadium is going to be paid for by taxing businesses according to their revenue. But that's not a "stupid anti-business law"? But yet a policy, supported by an overwhelming majority of voters, to unify the city's minimum wage is? Restaurants have vacant spaces because their customers are sick of being nickel and dimed with stupid junk fees. Customers will come back when their owners grow up.

You are a little dense. You can't change a business model in the middle of a restaurant's lease and then wonder why they can't make it.

DC is most anti-business friendly city I know of. We are paying for it.

You are even denser if you think anyone on here will buy the argument that the repeal of I-82 will take the DC restaurant industry back to the glory days of 2019.

And you are shameless if you advocate for policies that benefit restaurant owners and a handful of high-earning waitstaff over everyone else in the industry and, more to the point, the public at large.

Seven states - Alaska, California, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington - all have adopted policies identical to I-82. Competent restauranteurs don't seem to face much difficulty making money in these states.

Those restaurants in those states aren't competing with tons of places across the river or down the road. There is no comparison.

I-82 was a solution in search of a problem. Most servers were against it - it was the prog left that pushed this nonsense.

The notion that restaurants in downtown DC are competing with those in Arlington, Alexandria, Fairfax, Bethesda, and Silver Spring is not a serious argument.

As a restaurant patron, I will take my business to whichever establishments can be transparent about this much I’m expected to pay. Any menu with prices including tips and taxes will win me over any time.

But DC restauranteurs by and large went the other way and used I-82 as an excuse to engage in wanton deception, introducing all manner of junk fees that pissed off loyal customers. Not a tear will be shed for the loss of any restaurants owned and run by dorks that engage in this crap.

Yes, they are competing. People get used to a certain price for things and if they cross the river and something is 30% higher, behavior will change.

You clearly have no idea how the economics of a restaurant (or any business) works. They are all acting rationally given the stupid law.

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Last year 50 restaurants closed because of this. This year, 70 more have closed and its only July.
Think about all the jobs loses too.

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DC is looking like a ghost town. We were in Georgetown Friday evening and no one was on the street. I know people are at the beach but no one walking around.

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Anonymous wrote:DC is looking like a ghost town. We were in Georgetown Friday evening and no one was on the street. I know people are at the beach but no one walking around.

Sleepy Gtown is a ghost town. It's not 1995 anymore.

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Few people spend money on alcohol now. There's not much money to be made with food.
We used to have 5 servers working a brunch shift. Now we need 7 and all get paid $10+ tips. They horse around, disappear, eat 30 minutes straight and the some, check their phones at all times, take 15 minute bathroom breaks, zone out, argue over everything, sit down to rest after 20 minutes on their feet.
This endless hiring, training, disappearing, and firing costs a lot time and money. One resume out of 10 is worth a look.
This was not the case from 1997-2022. Pot heads are gone replaced by ADHD.

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Thank god for Bowser.

She’s the only person keeping DC out of federal hands.