California Workers DEMAND $25 Hour Minimum Wage As State LOSES 10,000 Jobs From Fast Food Wage Hike!
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Also remember the days when fast food restaurants were mainly used as a stepping stone for high school kids to get extra money before further education?
It should still be that way. Those entry level jobs were great for teaching kids how to work.
Everyone likes to say that Trump would be a dictator but never was in his first term. Also during covid he left govenors to decide what would be best for their states as to not be a dictator. The states that were shut down unnecessarily longer than others were those ran by democrats, that was the reference.
Right, I live in FL and you’d have barely known that covid was a thing outside of some people wearing masks.
He defunded the world health organization (the ones responsible in quarantining ebola to prevent epidemic or pandemics saying why the u.s should help other countries. Because of that corona wasn't quarantined or stopped and he caused the pandemic for defending that organization. He spent billions on a wall only for it to be dismantled by people who want to illegally sell the metal. (Both biden and Trump are horrible rich political people but that's the only choices we get...
why do you think they wanna take away our gun rights? as soon as food becomes too expensive, homes are too expensive, and water becomes too expensive/undrinkable. People will start to target who causing all of this crap.
It used to be that fast food jobs were filled by older teenagers and people that were just getting into the job market. These were useful jobs in that young people could get work experience before going on to something better.
You can't go to something and continue to move up when. The higher ups aren't leaving their positions 🥱
These entry level jobs are just that. They are meant to help children develop a work ethic while still living with their parents. That's where things that can't be taught in schools (like motivation, initiative, ambition, financial and personal responsibility) are learned.
He meant the Democratic Governors Lockdowns, remember Thrump gave each Governor the freedom to decide on weather or not that wanted to lockdown their states. Most of them chose to lockdown.
yea every blue state locked down, while the red states carried the weight, its obtuse to believe otherwise
Or how California denied Ships carrying goods from unloading for months causing scarsity of goods and products further raising prices while Florida Ports remained open.
That's the biggest mistake he made.he screwed up with covid and now Biden screwed up everything
Exactly
Lol My sister in Cali got mad when the minimum wage shot up. Now she's considered low income. 😂
I make $80 an hour here in Cali. I am middle-low income after taxes. Eff Cali gov’t. A burger flipper ain’t worth $15 an hour.
Layoffs are already here. Big time. Theyre cutting their own throats. $25/hr. Businesses can't afford to pay that. So
Either less workers. Who will have to work harder. Or they close up. That's the choice
20$ an hour is $40,000 a year. That’s nothing in California. That’s nothing in most places
Even at $25 an hour, your bi-weekly paycheques, after taxes and deductions, could be as low as $1,500.
Our service economy produces almost nothing, it's like government employment, nothing but consumption, the only result can be is a downward spiral as the wealthy few leach all real value out of the economy.
If you feel that you're worth more, then it's time to show what skills you have that can earn that kind of money. Staying in entry level jobs and demanding more isn't the answer.
@decimusvitae then they don’t have a viable business. If your business relies on the government to pay your employees you have a failed business.
There is no fast food worker worth $20 an hour. These fast food companies can afford it but they refuse to give up their profits. As we all see they will fire staff and raise prices on their food.
It is obvious most people do not have the capability to see the potential consequences of poor policy choices. They cannot look beyond the immediate. They think raising the minimum wage only means wage increases. When layoffs occur, hours are cut, and prices go up they are dumbfounded about how it happened.
That is because people often think about how cool if THEY were to get $20/hr, without thinking how it would impact an employer's bottom line if ever employee had the same pay rate. A business' payroll only have finite amount of money to pay people, and when there isn't enough money to pay everyone, that is when hours starts getting slashed. The next step is layoffs.
If a company could’ve laid those employees off they would’ve done it before. I don’t know of any billion dollar corporation that employs people out of the goodness of their heart
Also 20hr is $40k a year if you work full time.
Thank the mighty US Federal Dept of Indoctrination, can't have educated citizens capable of reason and critical thinking. Need compliant socialist worker drones who vote the liberal "values" of dependency and entitlement.
Being unable to anticipate the consequences of actions or policies is a sign of low intelligence. It's not surprising to see so many bad policies in the west, as we collectively get dumber by the day.
$20 X 8 hours is $160
$160 X 5 Days a week is $800
$800 X 52 weeks is $46k a year
$46k X 10 employees is $460k a year to pay for those employees.
So if a company with 10 employees doesnt make atleast $750k a year the owner goes negative (the other almost $300k is for things like renting the building, bills, inventory etc.)
Just showing how expensive running a company under a $20 minimum wage is like.
The way she said dead ass last 😆 🤣
"Hella"
LOL!! that was hysterical!
Bro that bish had me cracking up 😂😂😂
Yeah why she doin that lol.
If your pay goes up, and everything you buy goes up by the same amount, you come out at a net loss because you are paying more taxes in addition tot he higher prices.
Yes, I've been saying this for so long. It's not a wage increase across the country is a tax hike.. for a while there I was thinking I was the only one calculating this out.. if goods, transportation, raise, so does state government cost, higher taxes, increase the population wages and push everyone over to the next higher tax bracket. Which puts you at twice the taxes then in 2018. What I can figure out or have trouble figuring out is the total taxations that a person pays with state + federal as a whole calculating for your personal avg .. taxes on goods, property taxes and federal taxes.. at one point I had heard if your in the 34th percentile for taxes you pay around 53 percent of you gross income. Not sure if that's true or not.
@@kiekokat3678you don’t know how taxes work
@@Michael-pi8ps ok and what is wrong with any of what I have stated.. and asked
California was dead ass last in job growth! I love this news lady.
Look at the bright side for a lot of people Now is a fine time to lose that extra weight. If the high prices don’t motivate you to quit eating that junk then you have a serious problem.
This is all 1000% by design.
I've been watching this story for months. $20 an hour for a fast food job. Absolutely crazy. I worked at a fast food restaurant in High School. After graduation I left to pursue a real career.
I’m very grateful that we left Sonoma County, California and retired by the Caribbean Sea in Belize, Central America six years ago! Most people don’t know that there’s ZERO corporate fast food restaurants in the entire country of Belize, no corporate department stores, no corporate movie theaters, no traffic, no mass shootings, no road raging people and our lives have become so much more peaceful, simple and being raised in Hollywood, California, I now feel safer than I ever was in California. Please stay safe and healthy…
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My daughter lives in Palencia. She has been there for about five years now. She is 35 and owns a business Belize. Maybe you have met her but didn’t know it. Enjoy your retirement.
So your colonizing another country?
Sounds like a mere snippet of what we have to look forward to on Paradise Earth enjoy....
Are internet speeds good in Belize?
@@MichaelSellers5691 that’s where we live as well!! It’s actually Placencia. What’s the name of your daughters business? 🌞🌴🌺🐬⛵️
Here in Seattle people need to earn at least $40 an hour just to have a regular car and a regular one-bedroom apartment
Yes paid what your worth, commensurate on the skill and knowledge you provide. As a pipefitter apprentice I made $18.50, as a Journeyman I made $42-$60 an hour but after 4 years of experience 😉
Don’t worry the robots are about to take over, you’ll see
Ok 😂😂💦 who's going to be buying this robot food ?🤔
I'm looking forward to fast food going automated. Maybe they'll get my order right for a change.
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Quality:
Ok lets talk about my dinner tonight.
I paid $10-11 at McDonald's for a meal about 2 weeks ago. Meat was noticeably salty. Onions and ketchup on it. Fries 🍟 and drink.
Tonight, 😂 I had homemade salmon. Almost a pound of new potatoes warmed in water with genuine salty butter 🧈 and fresh finely chopped parsely. I even had left overs....roughly $11 and enough for 2 meals. For a drink, I had Peligrino. On my salmon, I had salt 🧂 and freshly squeezed lemon.
Better quality than McDonald's. Healthier option, and if I divide price by 2 as it makes 2 meals, my price droppes to $5.50.
Better overall value 😂 get it?
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Sounds ok, I guess, although I'd question the boiling of potatoes with fish, But as far as it being cheaper at home, this isn't a revelation. How much time did it take you to go go shopping and cook? There is a reason it is called fast food. You pay the extra for the convenience and speed, i.e. someone else's labor and time.
I couldn't buy those ingredients for $11.
@@robertburns4429
ALDI 1 piece of Salmon $6-7
1 canned whole new potatoes $1
1 piece of lemon 🍋 $0.33
1 poquet of fresh Parsley $0.25 at local Farmers Market.
1 personal size Peligrino $1-2
My appetite = 2 meals
Large appetite = 1 meal
Still better value than McDonald's in my opinion 🤷. Your opinion 🤷 may differ.
@@hrhtreeoflife4815 Eating basic essentials are cheaper and healthier. Been their many times. Sounds like a nice meal.
And, California's unemployment money is in overdraft. That was on the news today.
12:05 Look at McDonalds price hikes a quarter pounder is now 12 dollars a 122% increase.
The big Mac is now the little Mac 😆
When they say democrats lockdown, they mean the closing of businesses and such.
Like shutting down restaurants, but keeping liquor stores open because they are "essential".
Trump was in office
I'm a landlord. Rents can't come back down in California because of insanely high power bills, water bills trash bills property taxes and much more. Get all these to come down and I can lower my rents.
Why are utilities, water,and gas included in rent? They're separate where I live
I will give you an example: I include power as part of the rent. At the moment the power bill is as much as my mortgage. If I don't include power I'm penalized by the state. And if the renter pays the power bill it still comes out to the same amount they are paying now. I do give the options for me including or they paying.
Get a job quit being a landlord freeloader
@trucknmike7611 I suppose I didn't consider when people talk about high rent, they might have utilities included. I pay all mine separately. Interesting to note then, as your rent prices are also heavily weighted on the utilities.
@@WheresRayEppsYeah! Hey fellow Florida fam.👏 🥰
This is a slap in the face for us truck drivers.. where peoples lives matter every second. Theres no raises for us because its based on the market
Shit runs downhill and companies are never going to take the hit. These crybabies demanding higher wages are only pushing themselves into the unemployment line.
Companies will take the hit, they raise prices past what anyone can afford, fire all their customers, and wonder why they go bankrupt.
Employees = customers... lay everyone off and nobody can buy anything.
Also Even 25$ an hour is nothing if the cheapest place to live in the entire state is 3000$ a month.
You people are so dumb
Yep all the fast food corporations are working on designing fully automated stores all ready. It'll be touch screens instead of cashiers and robots in the kitchen. They will have a manager and an assistant or two who are on salary to keep the machines stocked with food and to trouble shoot any problems. But other wise there wont be any people working there.
So how about this. We stop offering housing/food assistance to employees of these billion dollar corporations. It makes no sense that my already modest salary is taxed and those funds go to subsidize McDonald’s low wages.
When a company actively promotes how to get on government assistance they are the problem. McDonald’s has a flawed business model if they cannot both pay their employees and be profitable. It should not be on the taxpayer to make up for McDonald’s low wages
@@Michael-pi8ps you try telling CEO's to take pay cuts, and investors stock prices to go down... the world is about trading around paper rather than goods these days, until companies are willing to stop price gouging people to enhance their bonuses and golden parachutes and such, prices are going to keep going up, and wages relative to prices are going to keep going down.
A 25$ an hour wage isn't even enough to pay rent in a lot of places these days, imagine needing to pay car insurance, cellphone bills, electric bills, etc... on that.
15 years ago I read a study that stated for people to have the same quality of life then that people had in the 60's, the minimum wage would have to be 22/hr. And that's assuming that all prices stayed the same. But if the minimum wage goes up to that now, the prices on everything will go up accordingly to cover those wages. Worked in the 60's but can't work now? What changes? Oh right, corporate greed. They've realized that they can 2X, 3X, 4X their profit margins by just not paying employees and minimizing benefits. Anyone out there remember pension plans? Now we have 401K. Who does that help? The stock market.
As goes California... hopefully into the Pacific Ocean.
Take Florida with it
Fair wage for all? Soooo, let's not go to Colleges or trade schools anymore! You can just pick your nose for a living and get $40 an hour! This is CRAZY! Nobody wants to work hard anymore! What a bunch of LAZY people!
The funny part is who do we think are holding majority of these jobs who are asking for 25 dollars a hour you guest it immigrants if it was the American citizens they wouldn't even be having this conversation 🤔🙄🤦🏽🧠👀💯
People will stop eating at these places if they aren't affordable
One day when it’s too late people will realize that a higher minimum wage won’t change the underlying problem…
or just don't tax the first 50k of earnings. stimulate growth.
People screaming for a minimum wage hike are simply screaming to get fired.
When I decide to go to Mc Donald's, I don't check if the one closest to me is Corporate owned or not. Mc Donalds of any kind wlll always do fine. They will make lots of profits even after they give a bit more to their employees. That man owns 18 Mc Donald's franchise stores. The rich want to get richer while the poor get poorer. The mom and pops is different. Maybe they base it on yearly sales or number of employees. Idk. It makes me think of all those food trucks.
I live in Orange County, California and I see a lot of "Now Hiring" signs every time I go out.
"A little bit more"?
It was $15, now $20. 30% is not a little bit.
The land is corporate owned, McDonald's make more off the property then the food
Congress said it would lock down for 14 days...ended up being 2 years plus.
I don't think they realize it has a direct effect on what they pay...raise minimum wage=increase cost of goods. Every action has an opposite and equal reaction.
Even in my small town in GA, Mickey D's is already putting in ordering kiosks so they can hire fewer people, despite the fact that our mandatory min wage hasn't gone up yet. Even without the min wage requirement, they are already having to pay $12 or more just to get enough help.
Most of the stores are operated by individuals or small businesses that own 5 or 10 stores, and they operate on much smaller margins than people realize.
True, only the stockholders and corporate see the benefits. These jobs will be filled by robots before long.
@@matthewlingelbach4761they can have robots but who is going to be purchasing the food 🤔
@@freshmclovin4593 Most everyone who currently eats there. Don't know if that was a question or a statement, but in either case it made no sense. Customers aren't what's changing.
@@freshmclovin4593 If they automate enough they won't have to raise their prices, so, the same people that ALREADY buy their shitty food will just continue doing so.
Non skilled jobs are not meant to careers except the higher positions. It's for kids and for people that use them for supplemental income.
I Didn't know California had 10,000 jobs to begin with
Lol the non starter jobs not hiring. They all want 8-9 years of experience or a degree. Seems like someones taking a L. Some of these places should close 🤷
The jobs pay next to nothing now due to massive surge of job losses due to immigrant labor. One of the guys at work told me the equipment at his old job only accommodates Mexican immigrants who tends to be shorter than Americans. Our government and corporations sold out the American people.
U can make a fuck ton of money, even with the silliest business ideas. As long as U have really cheap labor.
We all WANT more; but it drives prices up and it's called The Death Spiral
OMG! You mean to tell me I can't make 25.00 an hour making an .89 cent burger??? WHHHHHHHHaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaattttttttttttttttttttttttt?
Meanwhile...ReaLPage is getting away with price-fixing on house rent and property values. Wake up people! YOUR rent and property values is being price-fixing by a major company's algorithms!
Ideology is irrelevant; the reality is this is not sustainable.
Give them $50 an hour.
And $5 every year there after.
Until the entire city leaves and they have zero customers.
That actually sounds like a solid plan!
They've, already, essentially bankrupted themselves with all the illegals.
I'll even offer to go over there and help give their state a push into the Pacific.
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I’m from LA and have live for 10 years now in Texas. Everything time I go back to visit. The downfall of California is so sad. People that I meet from California that just moved out here, ask me what is the one this I hate about Texas. I always say the people for California. We move here for a better life but they want to vote and act like they are still in California. So they will run out of states to ruin. They have no common sense. Love the channel and content!!
$25 for these zero skill jobs, are they insane???
You can get rid of McDonald's and Burger King. I'm sick of the employees anyways. They always have the worst attitudes.
Having to live in your car/shelter because you work at a fast food place is not fair either. Changes need to be made everywhere.
The REAL problem is, they could easily afford the pay raises, they just don't want to see their margins take a hit....
I left California years ago....couldn't pay me to even visit. My sister left also. Idiots inmates are running the asylum. Thank God the rest of the nation isn't following California. We have a sensible Governor.
Machines don’t need: maternity leave,sick time or vacations; all they need is one or two repair persons to keep the ball rolling.
My buddy and his wife together make over 240,000 a year have three kids don’t even own their house and still have massive amounts of bills
No employer should under-employ if your working full-time 40+. You shouldn't be forced to work more to live. Guess bad jobs will just have to disappear.
$25/hour is $50,000 per year. That's more than most entry level jobs out of college with a bachelor's degree. For flipping burgers.
You really think they have these people at full-time?
How about instead of paying more per hour we make the currency worth more itself so that is needed. You could start that by NOT printing out more money and lay off these bureaucrats that no one elected.
So my highly skilled mechanics, for the rail road who have to take random drug test, make 35$ a hour so you get home safely, should now be making 100$ a hour so your train ticket will be a few thousand. And now let's talk about the air lines.
People don’t understand that the more they get paid the less the money is worth. Our currency is literally backed by minimum wage labor at this point
Workers earning higher wages spend virtually all their money, thus creating jobs at other businesses.
If you want to bring our economy back into balance over night. Half the rent. Nothing affects the cost of living is this ridiculous rent.
Those people are inconsiderate, greedy, idiots. They don’t consider that if the business has to close, they will become unemployed. The prices of housing and other goods would have to increase. That state will be doomed and their economy will crumble.
In the words of scruge mc duck
Money shouldn’t be sitting still but should be used and spent wisely.
And the best example I can give about a healthy economy is gardening.
Plants aren’t free, when you have an apple sapling you have to water and care for it, that takes time and money and the more time and money you invest into your apple tree or anything else for that matter it should grow up into a big strong apple tree and eventually as the old saying goes, you’ll soon be able to reap the fruits of your labor, but when there’s little incentives to invest into the economy that apple tree will eventually rot and die
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Am sorry on the news 😂
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It's Idiocracy real!
Are we going to get a president Camacho! I mean at least he cared 😂
Remember Trump said he will leave every state to run it's self. The governor. Cali is a blue state. Call was one of the worst
@9:10 Yep, precisely. Raising the minimum wage increases the cost of all goods and services, so people don't gain any purchasing power from it.
But what are the downsides?
1) Those prices increases, also happen to people who are no longer earning an hourly wage- retirees. Their expenses also increase, without a corresponding increase in income.
2) It makes the US even less competitive on the global stage. Foreign labor gets even cheaper by comparison, expect to see even more jobs move overseas.
3) Any position that creates an income less than the minimum wage, will be eliminated. If a position only generates $15/hr for an employer, but an employer would need to pay a worker $20/hr, that position will be eliminated.
Most large companies have CEOs making millions and maintain a 35-50 % profit margin and investors 6 percent profit .
These companies are say instead of cutting our salaries and profit margins well raise the price's and blame the wage increases that the workers receive. McDonald's current CEO salary 19.2 per yr.
There shouldn't be a minimum wage state or federal. You as a person should be adult enough to go in and discuss the wage you want from an employer yourself. If you can't come to an agreement on the wage you want then you move on to the next 1 until you find that employer that is willing to pay what you want to be payed. If all the perspective employers say no, then take a hint, you want to much money your simply not worth the wages you want.
Agree completely. Minimum wage is a fallacy to make people think they are getting a fair wage.
I was damn proud to make 10.😂50 an hour working at a data center straight out of high school. These mofos are crazy. 25 an hour is entry level help desk work. Not flipping burgers or making coffee.
Every time minimum wage increases, the middle class gets poorer.
I enjoy having the discussion with people about how minimum wage should be a living wage. My first question in every time is okay so how many 25.00 Big Mac meals have you had this week how many 35.00 runs to Taco Bell have you made how many 47 - 50 meals have you had at Applebee's because if you're unwilling to go spend that kind of money over and over and over every week then you cannot sit there and say well these businesses should pay this wage okay well they can't if nobody is going to their restaurants they can't if nobody's buying their product and just sit there and demand that they be required to pay this while you sit there refusing to spend your own money to purchase their products at these increased prices means that either these people do not understand how economics work or they're so disingenuous they just expect somebody else to pay for it
Seven states-Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming-did not issue orders directing residents to stay at home from nonessential activities in March and April 2020 in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
I really hope those robots need to sit behind a desk and watch the training videos 😂
Am I'm the only one that loves Dagan's grit grit. 😅
Let's be honest, corporations like McDonald's and Walmart can certainly pay 25 dollars a hour and still make a profit. Especially when the offer piss poor healthcare benefits.
What about smaller restaurants and shops?
It’s basic economics. Why can’t people see that.
in 1971 minumum wagę was $1.75 so 53 years later that would be $11.82 hardly $25.00. if someone has a skill and job experience then $25.00 would be about right. to pay a 18 year old without any special skills $25.00 isn't reasonable .
Remember when America had manufacturing jobs?
Pepperidge farms remembers.
I'll try to explain this as best I can the way it was explained to me in my business classes. Minimum wage is like a foundation on a building. There has to be a face upon which everything is built obviously the foundation is not going to be making the $10,000 per unit rental price like a penthouse would but the problem is the foundation can only be so thick before it starts to crumble it can only be so strong before it starts to fall apart so if you keep building and building and building and making that foundation thicker and thicker and thicker without any support eventually it's going to crumble and bring down the entire structure
$25 an hour is what brick layers make.
it's half of what I make for doing chimney work, masonry on a roof.
sometimes on a ladder on a roof.
one time we used a ladder to get on a roof to place a ladder to get to another roof to place another ladder to replace the chimney cap.
50% of that is not dropping fries.
Monthly inflation is 0.35% and yearly is 3.4% thats not too high... The worst is over it was in 2022
Low skill work deserves low pay as that is what fast food and retail is.
Manufacturing however should always be paid more than food service.
Yeah we need food but you need machines to make and harvest efficiently.
Demolition Man got it wrong. It's not Taco Bell it's Panera Bread
As Grandpa used to say, "Wish in one hand and (defecate) in the other and see which gets full first."
It already has 2 meals at Carl's Jr., which is 46 dollars. It's mind-blowing
I got into a discussion one time with somebody about minimum wage and how the state or the feds mandating an increase was helping the worker I asked the person I was talking to, "Okay if that's the case then why don't they just go ahead and mandate $10,000 an hour and fix their every issue."
Exactly, it's like the questions what would you do if you had a million dollars? If everyone had a million dollars there would be no one to clean shit up.
The problem is we have a tax structure that favors the ultra rich and we allow corporations to consolidate and have monopolies.
Having tons of Small businesses is what’s good for the economy. Nowadays we have these massive trillion dollar companies that have reached market saturation and STILL want more. So they use their monopoly power and just raise prices because no one can compete with them
If I was starting a career today, I would go for something in Robotics. I am retired from telecommunications. I got by on a 2-year degree.
No, everything in the store won't go up 25% because wages are only a small fraction of the cost of the goods.
Restaurants are going to become large vending machines. Just.
Like in the movie idiocracy.
They'll be laid-off in time for the food riots this summer!
If a $15.50 earner got a $10 per hour (65%) increase. Those who make above $25 should also demand a 65% increase.
Exactly
Stopped eating out. Unaffordable. The debt in California is triple than what is reported.
They try to place these hourly wage laws because the money has no value you need 20 an hour, which is equivalent to maybe $4.50 per hr to
McDonald's had a dollar menu. If you are paying 5 people a shift, you would have to sell 250 items an hour just to pay employees. I live in Cleveland, Ohio, and by the end of April things were back to normal except for masks and infected rules. This is MAGA country!!!
Humorous solution; if you own a McDonald's franchise. Go dig up little Suzzie's "Easy Bake Oven" and take it to work. start making little loafs of bread 🍞 and selling it. Then place a sign outside saying "Freshly cooked bread made here!"
Also, if you have a $15-20 fast food job, your hours will be severely cut. Most people can only get about 10-15 hours a week! Thats insane 😢
"You should be afraid, HELLA afraid!"
Fast food places need to start only selling their most profitable items, use robots as much as possible, and cut back hours.
Minimum wage is 11 dollars an hour in Arkansas but a lot of restaurants pay more because no one wants to work that hard and sometimes not even get enough hours. It depends on business. I know the small restaurant owner had a few hibachi and sushi places and they spent money on themselves regularly. (Like buying a new car)