On Sep 10, 6:00*pm, Dave Smith > wrote:
> On 10/09/2010 6:40 PM, Bryan wrote:
>
> > If compensation for kitchen and bussing staff went up 50%, that
> > shouldn't raise prices more than your 15% because the rent wouldn't go
> > up, the food costs don't go up, and the higher paid skill jobs don't
> > go up. *I'd like to see every single illegal Mexican out of the USA,
> > but I'd also like to open up to plenty of legal Mexican immigrants.
> > All undocumented workers harm the working class. *Folks who exploit
> > undocumented folks should be imprisoned at hard labor.
>
> Big fines for restaurants who hire illegal workers might have a bigger
> impact on *prices than decent wages. Prices in most places have a lot
> more to do with what the market bears than with the cost of labour.
> Restaurant jobs tend to pay minimum wage,and even the immigrants aren't
> working for much less than minimum. In most cases they are probably
> already getting minimum.

After one big fine, they might never risk another. A big part of that
"what the market bears" is locationlocationlocation. Savvy landlords
raise rents when an area becomes more attractive.

--Bryan, who is going to *be* a landlord for the first time, which is
weird