Quote:[BAD WORD REMOVED]! I'm trying to educate people here on REAL LIFE SMALL BUSINESS economics and people want to debate.

 

So the minimum wage has doubled but the "mom and pops have hung around in the shadows of the McDonalds and Taco Bells?"

 

Geeze Louise, how many Mom-and-Pops have you seen close. I can tell you this, the place across the street from me has been 9 different restaurants since I opened. Those Mom-and-Pops have not "hung around in the shadows of McDonalds and Taco Bells".

 

Please tell us how your small business is able to compete with the purchasing power of the behemoths, I'd love to hear this.

 

Regards......................the Chiefjag

Chief, I'm not in the restaurant business, but the local guys in my hometown - and there are tons of them - stick around by:

 

1) Offering better food/atmosphere

 

2) Filling a niche others don't

 

3) Offering the right product in the right place in town.

 

You've watched 9 places fail across the street.  You're doing something right and they're doing something wrong.  I'm actually quite interested in finding out what that is, because yours apparently is one of the few that sticks around. 

 

And yes, we want to debate.  This is a political forum.  My own business did not employ at the minimum wage level, so we were immune to a raise in the federal wage.

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