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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We pretty much stopped eating out because restaurant prices are crazy expensive.[/quote]

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And I'm consistently disappointed with what we get for the inflated prices. [/quote]

Exactly. My humble $18 B.L.T. looked just like a normal sandwich anyone could quickly make at home. It wasn’t like a sky high volume of premium bacon or anything exotic on it. Total rip-off. [/quote]

I just made a BLT at home for dinner and it probably cost all of $4.50, even buying the "good" bacon. I made my own bread, too. It was delicious.

No way am I going to pay a more than 300% mark up on an extremely basic sandwich just because someone else assembled it for me. People need to start just walking away from these prices. It used to be that even at a place with $15 sandwiches, you could get a BLT, grilled cheese with bacon, or cheese and tomato sandwich for less than $10, because obviously these sandwiches have relatively cheap ingredients and are easy to make. This is 100% a deli saying "let's charge $18 for this and just see what happens -- if they still pay it, we can double our profit margin on them." So don't pay it![/quote]

Welcome to the cost of "living wages" for unskilled jobs.  Jobs like these were never intended to support a person or family on.  I understand that many of these people are supporting themselves and/or family on these jobs, but [b]the wage scale should not be designed around that.  [/b]

But what do you expect businesses to do when you have increased the hourly wage from $7.25/hr to $17.00/hr and current statistics have not yet caught up to pre-pandemic mode.  Additionally, the businesses are paying for the 6-7% inflation and all of the ingredients and supplies they purpose are costing more.  You expect businesses to operate in the red and eat those costs?  Of course not.  Their costs have gone up about 250%, so eateries are passing those cost increases on to the customer.  [/quote]

So you deserve a living wage, but not these workers? [/quote]

Well, yes, because she presumably has a job that requires specialized skills and a college degree. [/quote]

If it’s a job that is needed (and if you want to eat out, you need cooks and servers), it deserves to have a living wage. No one is saying someone who makes sandwiches should make the same as an engineer or surgeon. But they should make enough so they can afford a studio apartment, a car, and health insurance. [/quote]

NP I disagree with them having their own apartment and a car. A living wage should mean that TWO of these jobs should be able to own an apartment. People need to live with roommates. [/quote]

So what is a single parent supposed to do? I can see how in some areas, you might be making a choice between a less-expensive place further out, in which case you either need good public transportation or a car, and a more-expensive place near your job, but [b]people deserve housing, healthcare, and food.[/b]

And considering the cost of education and training, it's not reasonable to require it for a living wage.[/quote]

If a person works responsibly at a minimum wage job, they will only be working at it for a few months.  There are ample opportunities to move up and earn more.  If that single parent was working a minimum wage job, they would also qualify for the EITC, CHIP, SNAP and free lunches.  They can also get a roommate.  All these "living wage" initiatives do is make it more expensive for all goods, which of course affects the low income worker the most, which is why they escalate the "living wage."

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