Dont Be Foolish
With the economy tanking more everyday it seems ridiculous that the legislative bodies across the country have gotten together and passed a majority of laws during the first quarter of the year that all have an effect on the restaurant business.
Take New York for example. It is perplexing to me that they would charge an additional $.50 tax on every to-go container. This makes little sense. Yet, if you are going to eat out in NYC and take the leftovers home, it will cost you a half a buck.
While on the subject of big cities, lets focus on Los Angeles. There is going to be a $2.00 up charge for Guacamole at every restaurant in LA. Due to the freeze last year the Avocado crop took a chilling and now in order to recoup the money the surcharge was placed by the City council.
In Cincinnati the famous Skyline Chili is now being served without cheese since many of the Wisconsin cheese factories have raised the price of aged yellow cheddar. If you want the cheese piled high, you have to pay and extra $5.49.
According to reports from both coasts, Won Ton Wrappers have also skyrocketed in price over the past three weeks. Once, going for about $2.39 a package, the skins have increased to $95.00 a pound, making the price out of sight. If calculations are right, Imperial Rolls will soon be too expensive to order in most Thai restaurants.
In a recent report dealing with employee wages, the minimum wage in Carmel, California was increased by that city council by $4.25 per hour, raising the rate to $13.50 an hour. This holds true for Carmel Valley, also.
In Pacific Grove, California the minimum wage increased to $15.00.
In Boston, Massachusetts the ban was lifted on left legged lobsters that were placed on the endangered specie three years ago. Lobsters, as you know either swim to the right or the left depending on which side of their brain they think with. It was just three short years ago that left legged lobsters were almost extinct which had a dire effect on the oral beds off of Gloucester point. When the throw back law was initiated nobody knew if the left legged specie would survive. It did.
Finally, the grease trap law that was passed in an attempt to alleviate underground global warming is definitely going to crimp a lot of restaurateurs financially. By 2009 all restaurants serving fried food will have to install fiberglass grease holders to accumulate all of the grease that we dumping into our water supply. The traps are designed to recycle the grease into a bio fuel that will enable the modern automobile to obtain 45 mpg. The theory behind this concept is the more French fries we eat; the further we will be able to drive. Eat those fries and drive the price of gas down,
Who knows where it will ever end? Steaks in Frisco, Texas $65.00? Wheat grass in San Francisco, $12.00? Who knows/ The only thing for sure is today is April 1, 2008.