$20 Minimum Wage Backfires as Restaurants See Orders Plummet

[nullindividual]

Highly, highly misleading title.

This is app delivery companies. Restaurants themselves are fine.

IOW, these app delivery companies are unable to sustain their business and should go out of business due to their inability to pay their workers a wage which doesn't require taxpayer welfare.

[b112]

At least for pizza delivery, restaurants used to have their own drivers.

When it was slow, drivers would fold boxes, grate cheese, wash dishes, etc. There was always something to do, and the pizza place did fine paying a wage + delivery fee (for gas).

I don't see the advantage of external delivery companies, at least for a pizza place.

[andsoitis]

Worthy reading in parallel the National Restaurant Association’s “2024 State of the Restaurant Industry” report: https://restaurant.org/research-and-media/research/research-...

[hnuser0000]

restaurants see orders plummet*

*according to two delivery app companies

[andsoitis]

To be fair, the opening sentence pretty much sets the stage that this is about ordering for delivery: “A law calling for a $20 minimum wage has led to brutal backlash as customers opt out of ordering delivery in Seattle, Washington. ”

[coldtea]

"Livable wage not tennable as restaurants find out they can only operate on sub-substinence compensation" would be a better title