Seattle's new $15 per hour minimum wage law takes effect April 1st and they are already closing like dropping flies, or moving their operations out of town. At the current rate, it will not be long before Seattle has no place left to eat.
One restaurant owner summed it up this way: "People just refuse to pay $30 for a hamburger."
Added one former employee, "Sure, I wanted to be earning more, but now I'm earning nothing."
I suppose the next move of the city fathers will be to make it illegal to close a restaurant.
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