/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.16648549]

Why can’t restaurants get help? All the places near me are closed due to lack of employees

[Anonymous No.16648560]

>>16648549
So remember when you people were bitching and moaning about increasing the minimum wage because "this isn't a job you're supposed to make a living wage on anyway"?

Turns out that argument fucks you right back in a pandemic. You pay shit wages and don't offer health insurance or a pension plan, turns out you only get the kinds of workers who don't really need the job that badly, aka kids living with their parents, students, and people with a real job moonlighting on the side for some extra cash. I mean what's going to happen if they don't show up? They can't afford to go out drinking on friday at the bar that's closed anyway? Oh no!

[Anonymous No.16648561]

all the slackers and losers that only work at restaurants cuz they have no other skills got filtered by the gubamint gibs and all the people that enjoy working in restaurants went to better positions at better restaurants because of the employee vacuum.

[Anonymous No.16648563]

>>16648560
yeah and now we’re all fucked by inflation. kys you stupid fucking communist asshole

[Anonymous No.16648567]

Cut off unemployment and they'll return

[Anonymous No.16648568]

>>16648563
Inflation is literally something creates by debt in a capitalist system

[Anonymous No.16648569]

>>16648549
Ah, funny you should mention that, because I have some political opinions related to this...

[Anonymous No.16648570]

>>16648563
>fucked by inflation
You mean blessed by inflation, silly frogposter.

t. just signed a half a million dollar mortgage at 2.75%

[Anonymous No.16648573]

>>16648549
Trump fucked up

[Anonymous No.16648586]

>>16648570
Sure u did

[Anonymous No.16648592]

>>16648567
>Cut off unemployment and they'll return
Lol. No. Ur old normal is long gone

[Anonymous No.16648594]

>>16648560
Or shit might get a little better in a dozen years of we are just going through another peasants revolt

[Anonymous No.16648595]

restauraunt work is shit and the pay isn't good because despite what people think, small business owners can be, and are, fucking greedy assholes, just on a smaller scale. would you really wanna work for 40-60 (or more) hours a week at ~15 an hour or 40 hours with a union at 20 starting at a labour job? redpill is that most restaurants are unsustainable and thousands are going to close down in the coming years.

[Anonymous No.16648597]

>>16648549
boomers retired and the generations after them had no kids so the labor force is small

[Anonymous No.16648607]

>>16648563
>paying people enough for the job they do is communism

[Anonymous No.16648612]

>>16648586
>Sure u did
>>16648592
>Lol. No. Ur old normal is long gone
Maybe if you learned to type words out instead of talking like a 45 year old coomer pretending to be a 14 year old girl on AOL Instant Messenger circa 1997, the idea of a random stranger buying a below average priced home wouldn't sound like an outlandish braggart's fantasy because you could pass for a normal productive person

[Anonymous No.16648625]

>>16648549
This will continue until business owners stop being kikes and pay their workers a realistic wage.

[Anonymous No.16648629]

>>16648612
Cope

[Anonymous No.16648630]

>>16648549
Boomers don't want to pay anymore than they're legally required and would rather throw a trantrum and shut it down than pay their employees

[Anonymous No.16648633]

>>16648563
How does the average not wanting to work for low pay cause inflation? The inflation isn't just for fast food the dollar is losing power in pretty much every sector.

[Anonymous No.16648639]

>>16648560
>turns out you only get the kinds of workers who don't really need the job that badly, aka kids living with their parents, students, and people with a real job moonlighting on the side for some extra cash. I mean what's going to happen if they don't show up?
This is exactly how the system is suppose to work.
No one should be raising a family on a restaurant job.
It's a starter job.
If that's the best you can do, don't have kids

[Anonymous No.16648648]

>>16648549
Self correcting problem

[Anonymous No.16648650]

>>16648639
the concept of "starter jobs" is entirely new in the last 30 year or so, I agree with fast food or working as a server ro something but something as important to the economy as food service absolutely should be able to pay for someone's livelihood.

[Anonymous No.16648653]

>>16648563
>b-b-but muh inflation!
lmao what a fucking idiot. The FED caused inflation with their insane amounts of QE to shore up the failed pandemic response, but retarded ancaps will continue to blame a minor increase in wages and the government spending that hasn't even happened yet.

[Anonymous No.16648659]

>>16648648
I'd rather have a retarded stoner make my food than an antivaxx retard who is eating horse dewormer

[Anonymous No.16648665]

>>16648639
I keep hearing this argument about how it's supposed to work. According to who? I never hear the flip side argument saying "well they aren't supposed to be reliable or loyal to the company when they get paid shit". They need to raise wages or go out of business.

[Anonymous No.16648667]

>>16648659
based
>mfw my sense of smell actually got stronger after I took my 2nd vaccine

[Anonymous No.16648674]

>>16648549
There’s plenty of data out about it. A wave of retirements (3.2 million; 2million more than expected) opened up opportunities for younger overqualified people to move up into careers or advance. A significant number former service workers switched industries entirely. Entrepreneurship saw a significant uptick.

Leisure and hospitality, specifically, is by far the most affected with ~3.5 million job openings and ~1.5 million people on unemployment who’s last job was in the category. Every other job category is substantially more balanced with only two (professional and business services, education and health) other categories that have a noteworthy skew—but not nearly as bad.

On an anecdotal note, I was in the restaurant industry before the lockdown, got laid off, enjoyed unemployment and will never return to that shit industry. Now I’m a proprietary trader in equities and equity derivatives. Virtually everyone I knew that worked in the industry has also permanently left. It probably wouldn’t be this way if the pay was better, scheduling wasn’t inconsistent, if a fair number of customers weren’t cunts (probably the biggest one), and if management/owners weren’t shit. I figured this exact scenario would happen middle of last year.