I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The problem of low wages isn’t that your margins are low and you’ll have to increase price of a sandwich to pay people enough.
The real problem is restaurants artificially lowering prices of a sandwich by paying people less for decades to the point people don’t realize that eating out used to be expensive. All the full service restaurants in my small town still do well. The ones that don’t are the sandwich shops where you pay $14 for a cold sandwich. Eating out is expensive and should be expensive if you want businesses to sustain themselves when there’s turmoil in the industry.
The real problem is restaurants artificially lowering prices of a sandwich by paying people less for decades to the point people don’t realize that eating out used to be expensive. All the full service restaurants in my small town still do well. The ones that don’t are the sandwich shops where you pay $14 for a cold sandwich. Eating out is expensive and should be expensive if you want businesses to sustain themselves when there’s turmoil in the industry.