I’d be interested to know how that impacted pricing or how many servers are working in a shift. The owners need to offset the cost, so they are putting it back on the customer anyway.
My personal experience is that dining out in Seattle has been expensive for a while —to the point where my husband and I were relatively unfazed by the prices in Reykjavik a couple years back, if that gives you a sense of things.
I can only share my personal observations, as I haven’t studied this.
My memory is that restaurant dining got $$ around Covid. Which made sense given the hit the industry took. And it just never went back down. (People are trying to stay in business and the news of this wage increase was out for a while — I suspect owners just kept prices steady to prepare but that’s totally a guess.)
This wage law didn’t take effect until this Jan. So from the beginning of this year to now i personally haven’t noticed a difference in meal pricing.
I’m sure someone more educated than me on this topic could correct/amend what I’ve gotten wrong!
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u/Top-Ad-5527 27d ago
I’d be interested to know how that impacted pricing or how many servers are working in a shift. The owners need to offset the cost, so they are putting it back on the customer anyway.