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All those people who write "Just raise wages!" clearly never managed a restaurant.

Why do you say that? Genuinely curious...not trying to troll.

Restaurants operate with notoriously small margins, it is probably hard to raise wages and keep prices down enough to be competitive.

Not to mention the 20-30% increase in COGS that the last year has driven, especially disposables and proteins.

Yep, but that doesn't matter. It's another item they can advocate for with absolutely no impact to their lifestyle at all, so they can virtue signal.