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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is it wrong for me to be outraged that City Perch  in Pike and Rose charged $7.95 for a Diet Coke?  A fountain one, by the way - it’s not like they weren’t importing Mexican coke in bottles or anything.  When I got home, I looked online to see if it shows up on the menu, and it doesn’t.   Is this the new going rate?

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It’s outrageous and get ready for all the restaurants to charge that much. With minimum wage going up to $17 an hour $8 for a soda will become more and more common.

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Hopefully you're just unfortunately misinformed instead of willfully spreading debunked right wing anti-labor talking points, but this is simply not true.  Restaurants may very well raise their prices after minimum wages are hiked, [b]but if they do it's entirely out of greed [/b]and capitalizing off misinformation like your post, not necessity.

In Denmark, McDonald's workers earn an average of $22 an hour, and their food costs less than the US: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mcdonalds-workers-denmark/

Here's a peer reviewed study that shows Seattle raising the minimum wage had no effect on grocery store food prices: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6579531/

Here's another peer-reviewed study that shows on average a 33% increase in the minimum wage only leads to a 3% rise in fast-food prices: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272243506_Does_the_Minimum_Wage_Bite_into_Fast-Food_Prices

Hopefully now that you know the reality of the situation you'll support labor's push for a livable wage in your community
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Are you new to the USA?  This country is full of greed.[/quote]

Wait until you venture out of the USA and see what the rest of the world is like. :D [/quote]

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