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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
so much for the insistence that inflation is caused by a high minimum wage. Minimum wage is the same $8.65/hour here as it was last year. It doesn't go up until September.
This has nothing to do with inflation. Farmshed's prices aren't higher than they were this time last year, because they didn't exist this time last year. They're a local-centric restaurant.
For those who venture beyond the golden arches once or twice a year, local-centric restaurants tend to offer food from higher quality, smaller farms better managed with better quality feed and living conditions of the animals, and locally sourced vegetables and fruits are less likely to be GMO, with fewer pesticides introduced into the soil, than getting it all from a food distribution warehouse somewhere in Tallahassee. And yes, they do tend to be more expensive in general.
That said - if Farmshed had chosen to put their restaurant outside the town square and instead built up the block (there's a vacant building with a terrific parking lot they could've gotten for cheap, most likely), they would've paid a lot less for rent, and they could've passed some of that savings to their customers.
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Aloha did not say a word about minimum wage.
Some of this stuff comes from the Pandemic and some of the financial mess comes from trying to do good and protect people to find out they won't work if they can get money for not working.
Some people almost always do the right thing, the good thing, the decent thing and some folks are not like that at all.
As for the vacant building; people are not pressured to choose where they rent. The high rent is because it is a prime location. Everyone knows how much the rent is here and know it is high in lots of areas of Florida that are considered destination hot spots.
It is market driven. I am tight as a drum but occasionally I don't mind paying for good food in a nice place.