"aem" > wrote in message
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The NY Times this week has a story about federal efforts to prosecute
restaurants that hire illegal immigrants in their kitchens.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/08/di...tml?ref=dining

(snippage)

So if restaurants replace all those workers, and raise prices to pay
them, will you eat out as much as before? -aem
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I'm not a huge fan of eating out so it doesn't bother me in the least. I
can just as easily (and usually more inexpensively) make it at home.

A restaurant described as Chinese-Japanese (rather odd) called The Jade
Garden in Beaufort was shut down last March because not only were all the
employees illegal aliens, so was the owner. It was all over the local news.
But, surprise! the place was open again a week later. I don't think these
sort of actions have much affect on anything, much less on people eating out
or on the prices.

Jill