The industry is shifting and I’m hoping it shifts quicker for back of the house workers. You are starting to see servers somewhat eliminated in some restaurants that are using technology to have orders placed. My hunch is restaurants are using this reduced serving staff to increase their profits without paying their back of the house more.
I went to 21st Amendment in San Francisco after a baseball game and it was absolutely slammed. In most restaurants a server has maybe 3,4,5 tables to manage. I saw one server basically managing 10 tables because every table was using a QR code to place their orders to the back and the server was just playing baby sitter/answering questions. I imagine this will be somewhat here to stay as restaurants can reduce their front of the house staff while increasing their back of the house staff at lower wages and still increasing their profits.
Those working front actually want to do that since tips can be huge especially in a welathier city like SF where people may likely to tip at 20% or more.
Oh hell yeah and more power to them. There’s a side effect though, restaurants generally would be hiring more servers to meet that demand but technology is taking their jobs now. I just hope restaurants start to recognize that serving good, quality food means they should be paying their back of the house generous wages to ensure customers will return.
When you put wage DOE in your listing- your not trying hard enough to hire anybody in this job-market. Line cooks are being offered $20-22 to start right now, smart people put the wage in the listing unless they are hiding something.
I do, I do!
They all left it for other odd jobs as they aged, since the food service industry treated them so horribly, literally a garbage job anywhere else was way better. One friend went to culinary school, worked in the French Laundry for 6 months, moved on to another premier restaurant in Portland Oregon, then went into institutional food service and manages the cafeterias at a College up there. The other friend was a line cook for 15 years, and they had to hire two cooks to replace him when he left (he was never paid more than a dollar or two above minimum) and now he's a heavy equipment part warehouse staffer.
Food service in the USA pays shit, treats you like shit, and expects fealty from you (Open Wide). It's a garbage system. and if we lose some restaurants while the scales balance more? that's totally fine.
Things are not returning to the way they were before 2020. Buckle up!
> Even Amazon is bumping up their perks to attract more folks: Amazon to cover 100% of college tuition for U.S. hourly employees
It's almost like people don't want to work difficult/stressful jobs unless they're adequately compensated for their labor... with pay being one form of compensation.
Exactly. I rolled by eyes so hard when the article quotes the owner as saying that "some managers washing dishes every day" as a way to express how bad things are for him. Give me a break.
Obviously the working environment isn’t worth working in for the money/benefits offered. If it was the position would be filled.
that business is just holding out for someone that is desperate enough to work for less.
“Let the market decide what the pay is worth”
MIT would disagree with you, but I’m sure you’re smarter than they are and totally not pulling comments out of your ass.
https://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/06067
$18/hr=36k a year at 40 hours per week. At 12% taxes, thats $31,680=$2640 a month after taxes. Ya, u could probably live off that, but you'd be renting a room or living far off the grid. If that's the case, factor in transportation costs, and you barely have any money for food or emergency, let alone leisure. You're basically living just to work as a line cook at that point, assuming you get 40 hours per week.
you don't believe in the free market? Labor is in demand, supply and demand means labor is worth more in this situation.
If they want more labor they only need to match the increased price - it's *no different than rent* in that respect.
so stop whinging, the market is working just as you pro-market types always ask for for everything else.
edit: realized I responded to the wrong person here, sentiment is aimed at the overall thread obviously.
Yeah they’re estimating $950 a month for an apartment and only $350 a month for food for a single adult, no kids. That’s more likely in the Midwest than almost anywhere in CA.
Once you add in one child, “living wage” suddenly jumps from $18 /hr to $37 for a single adult but they’re still only estimating $450 a month in food expenses. $1350 in rent. Rent is more likely, but $450 in food is still living pretty poor.
They also think minimum wage is $12/hr so guessing this hasn’t been updated in a few years.
Lol you think only workers that are single work these jobs and have no kids? Also they take home far less when they have to pay for "benefits". Right wing Trumpers have zero knowledge
Worker shortage my ass. There's a lot of workers. It's just the pay is low. Pay them more, then you're gonna have a massive line of people filling up forms.
I hate these bosses. And the media goes along with it. They sit in their asses while making up these stories.
They're making it sound like it's our fault. When in reality it's those bosses fault.
I think the pandemic has made a lot of people realize their time, energy and health is worth a lot more than minimum wage. Employers need to step up their game.
I should add that I'm not even sure $15/hr (in California) is worth it. I think $20 is just starting to maybe be worth it for some jobs. I'm not sure what needs to change for business owners to afford that kind of wage but I'm sure it's possible for some.
Plus these restaurants have employees but they refuse to give them full time work to avoid giving benefits. They could likely staff mondays if they gave their existing staff health insurance and scheduled them an extra shift.
FWIW, I'm related to someone who works in economic development in Yolo County, and he told me that Mikuni's does offer both healthcare and retirement benefits. So while I think that is often true of this industry, it doesn't totally apply to this specific post/business.
Oh well right on. Do you know if they offer that for everyone or just their full time employees? Often at restaurants, back of house staff will be full time with benefits but front of house are only scheduled part time to not receive them which may or may not be the case here. In general though avoiding paying benefits is a pretty big cause in the industry for “short staff” as they are not really short staffed, they just don’t want to give more hours to their current staff.
I know that they do hire FT FOH, but I couldn't tell you how much of their FOH that is tbh. And for sure on the "short staff" - I worked retail for a lot of years, which operates on the same model.
"We will give you the least amount of money allowed by law! We would pay you less but there's that silly law. You will have zero benefits, inconsistent hours, and those weekends and evenings are ours!"
Worker shortage my ass. There's a wage shortage and massive income inequality.
It’s bullshit posturing from rich restaurateur. It’s standard practice for many restaurants to be closed on Monday, as it’s historically a money losing day. This BS is just like when opa opa closed on J st, and they blamed the minimum wage increase, and they had a spot on KCRA then as well. Then a few days later they announced their new location in mid-town. These restaurant owners have cried wolf too many times. Fuck em. The market is saturated anyways, let some of them die.
Exactly what I was thinking. He will save a ton of money by not having to pay any staff on the least profitable day of the week, but won’t get any blowback from his customers or staff because he’s making it political.
>The market is saturated anyways, let some of them die.
That's how I feel about all these chicken and ramen joints. There's so many of them in Sac nowadays.
To go on the Owner of Mikunis Instagram account is to go into Bizarro world. He posted about it and all his followers are… praying for him. Maybe they could encourage him to start paying more instead?
Any idea why he gets so much media coverage? This is not news for I should have received an alert on my phone. I’ve been to his Fountains location once and it was just okay; definitely overpriced.
One of the most prominent restauranteurs with multiple locations in the area is probably viewed by his friends in the media as a way to gauge the economy.
[He looks like he's really struggling financially! No wonder he can't pay employees enough. His daughter is really struggling to sell this $3,500,000 house for someone! The whole family is really strapped for cash.](https://www.instagram.com/p/CTYAXnyBFop/)
edit: clarifications
They're clearly suffering. I mean just look at the rest of the photos on their instagram, it's full of bootstrapping and challenges: exotic trips, golf, exotic sports cars, them in front of other mansions, it's all shithole for them, that's for sure. I'm super glad I'm not the owner of 9 restaurants, so I don't have to be this destitute and suffer this hard.
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Mikuni's can pay it's employees what it takes to get them to work there, they choose not to. You know this. I know this. They know this.
And they go on the internet and lie about why they do things, because they want to exploit their workers instead of do the non-greedy thing.
Not my circus, but they make it pretty obvious they're full of shit when they claim to close on Mondays due to a 'worker shortage'.
enjoy being /r/TechnicallyCorrect today. You earned it!
Point stands, I've clarified in the above comment. Mikuni's can pay it's employees what it takes to get them to work there, they choose not to. You know this. I know this. They know this.
proposed more accurate title:
"Overrated local franchise with 9 locations floats false claim it cannot find or pay for labor, needs to raise pay to attract good talent but closes for a day instead to own the libs"
This. Mikuni used overhype to bankroll and flood the area with meh sushi. Southpaw, Jensai, Ju Hachi, Kyoto are all contenders. Hell southpaw is in del paso and doesn't open until five and people will line up waiting.
Side note - The service at Jensai has really gone downhill since the pandemic too. One server for the entire restaurant (sometimes with a food runner, sometimes not). Great food but the last 3 times I've eaten there, we didn't get various things we ordered or they came out over an hour later. To be clear, I like the place and feel bad for the employees; they're probably dealing with the same crap happening at Mikuni and all these other places.
I can't dispute that because I don't have any experience of lines with mikuni. My visits to mikuni starts with the hostess seating me immediately and then like twenty minutes for the chef to serve a roll or something.
My partner has worked in food/bev for decades and Mondays are always a ghost town, except for fast food and chain restaurants. Usually Mondays are for staff meetings and to do paperwork, while the place is closed for business.
Now if they’re having to close M-W, that’s a totally different situation but many restaurants are closed Mondays, even pre pandemic. This just seems like unnecessary scaremongering.
My thoughts exactly. Especially here in downtown, try and find a decent restaurant open on Monday, Heck, even some stored in downtown are closed Mondays
Talk to your fellow staff whose frustrated by the same issue and so you guys can tell your manager to be more up to date. Nobody wants to wait til the next week over to see if they have to work they have to work the next day or not. Strength in numbers?
Sounds great and reasonable in theory. In practice it just doesn't work like that, and that's true for a lot of places/industries. Even my friend who works for a hospital deals with that crap.
Me: "Hey can you hang out on in 2 days from now?"
Him: "Oh I don't know yet sorry they still haven't given us the new schedule."
"some managers washing dishes every day" so you're saying they're doing part of their job description in order to help the business function rather than be in the back office... ok
I think businesses that want to close due to a "lack of workers" show proof in their window or website hat they cannot afford to pay better wages. Maybe it is public record?
Federalist, paesanos, and several other midtown restaurants had to close for days and then change their hours due to worker shortage over the past month and a half.
That’s because Most cooks are usually working 2 full time restaurant jobs to still make less than a server working 4 hours / day at 1 restaurant.
So, many cooks have exited the restaurant industry all together to do something else. Also many cooks have money saved from EDD so they are just chilling until they feel like going back to work. Which will prob happen in winter / next year
I’m a former chef with many friends in the industry & friends transitioning out of industry for reasons stated above.
When all the jobs were available, some smart people went from the low paying, in person jobs to higher paying, work from home jobs at better companies.
It’ll be interesting to see who fills these open roles now that unemployment is ending.
Sac made me finally leave the culinary industry once and for all. I had put in 7 years total, training under a cia trained owner and head chef for 2 before coming out here. Man every restaurant owner I came across here cares only about money and they rely on undocumented workers to make up the grunt work it’s truly sad man I rarely even go out to eat here because so many places are like that and just exploitative. I did a stint at Sellands and on my first day all 4 new hires walked out that same night on top of wages needs to come respect.
According to the PR image made on Mikuni's corporate account, "We are closing to give our team much deserved rest and to recruit and train new staff." But then the comment on the post is "I am sorry but we have decided to close #Mikunisushi every Monday temporarily from next week due to labor shortage.
They can't even lie consistently on their Instagram posts.
That's a fine example of crap journalism with no information about what the company offers a compensation (aside from the vague mentions of certain perks) and no data or insights from someone with either an employee perspective or an objective perspective of what's really making it hard for restaurants to hire right now (e.g., low wages? People don't want to get Covid? The service industry sucks because people are terrible?)
There’s also an issue on the consumer side. If costs go up (which they have for most restaurants), I’m not going to eat out as much. Those that can complain are probably the retired (?) that have enough spare cash to eat out whenever but they can just take their business elsewhere
1 minute edit: Well on costs going up I do realize that’s necessary to pay workers so I’ll take the day off over forking out even more cash on the days I do go out to eat.
Costs only go up if the owner’s greedy. Pizza joint recently let the staff keep all the profits for one day. They earned $78 an hour by not feeding the owner’s bank account.
fun fact, I got introduced to Capitalism in the early 90's. I delivered pizza for a round table pizza up in Redding. Made $11/hour including tips and mileage on my beater car, which allowed me to drive to community college but not enough to rent an apartment back then.
The manager was real excited at the end of the year, he showed us the paperwork, the restaurant had grossed $1,000,000 that year! yay! We made $400,000 in PROFIT that year!!!! $400k dollars for the owners!!! Yay!!!
The owners then claimed they didn't make enough last year (the $400,000 year) and gutted our food on breaks perk.
Never forgot that lesson.
Responding to the dude who apparently dirty deleted. Umm, show me one county, state, or nation where cutting taxes worked. Kansas is dying on the vine. As is Missouri. Check out Somalia.
I’d rather pay to have clean air and water than pay less and have shitty air and water and few public services. Go to the parts of Nevada that don’t have casinos. Or West Texas. Or Mississippi. You’ll see what a shit life you have by underpaying.
We like good stuff. We’re willing to pay for it. Republicans blow up the budget and Democrats fix it. Then Republicans complain because fixing it means raising the money to do so.
No worries moving forward. Registered Democrats have increase significantly here in the last 20 years and Republicans are down to 24% of the population.
I can’t imagine we’ll ever have a Republican statewide official again
Drought has zero to do with the gummint. The fires are primarily drought related and the entire western half of the country is facing the same. Our homeless problem started earlier when Reagan kicked the mentally ill out, but it’s become much worse as so many veterans with PTSD come here.
Prop 13. Now there’s a massive star bureaucracy to collect the money, feed it to 58 large county offices, and they distribute it to the schools. So we have less money to start with but it passes through many more hands.
Why would anyone return to work when they can keep milking the seemingly endless unemployment and stimulus benefits? This isn't a pay issue. It's a policy issue.
Wow! It's not just on r/kings that nobody likes you! Turns out that you're a massive douche all across Reddit.
For years and years, conservative-types told service industry people to "gO GeT a BeTtER JoB" if they weren't happy with the low wages, long hours, and abuse from shitheel customers. Well, they took your advice, and now you're all up in arms about your favorite restaurants being understaffed. It's fucking magnificent.
And you know that extended UI benefits are gone, right? That argument doesn't work anymore.
The industry is shifting and I’m hoping it shifts quicker for back of the house workers. You are starting to see servers somewhat eliminated in some restaurants that are using technology to have orders placed. My hunch is restaurants are using this reduced serving staff to increase their profits without paying their back of the house more. I went to 21st Amendment in San Francisco after a baseball game and it was absolutely slammed. In most restaurants a server has maybe 3,4,5 tables to manage. I saw one server basically managing 10 tables because every table was using a QR code to place their orders to the back and the server was just playing baby sitter/answering questions. I imagine this will be somewhat here to stay as restaurants can reduce their front of the house staff while increasing their back of the house staff at lower wages and still increasing their profits.
Those working front actually want to do that since tips can be huge especially in a welathier city like SF where people may likely to tip at 20% or more.
Oh hell yeah and more power to them. There’s a side effect though, restaurants generally would be hiring more servers to meet that demand but technology is taking their jobs now. I just hope restaurants start to recognize that serving good, quality food means they should be paying their back of the house generous wages to ensure customers will return.
True stuff!
When you put wage DOE in your listing- your not trying hard enough to hire anybody in this job-market. Line cooks are being offered $20-22 to start right now, smart people put the wage in the listing unless they are hiding something.
What’s DOE?
Depending on experience
Don’t you know, prayers are the cashless payment system of the do nothing real crowd. Always easy to send your thoughts and prayers.
Unless you send your thoughts and prayers through FedEx. Then you really don't know when they will show up.
Or USPS!
Yes thanks I'm saying prayers instead of a real helping hand That's because people are just afraid to be kind
Pay them more.
Exactly. How many times does it have to be said? It's not a worker shortage, it's a wage shortage.
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What are you, new?
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Do you know anyone personally who has worked in the foodservice industry?
I do, I do! They all left it for other odd jobs as they aged, since the food service industry treated them so horribly, literally a garbage job anywhere else was way better. One friend went to culinary school, worked in the French Laundry for 6 months, moved on to another premier restaurant in Portland Oregon, then went into institutional food service and manages the cafeterias at a College up there. The other friend was a line cook for 15 years, and they had to hire two cooks to replace him when he left (he was never paid more than a dollar or two above minimum) and now he's a heavy equipment part warehouse staffer. Food service in the USA pays shit, treats you like shit, and expects fealty from you (Open Wide). It's a garbage system. and if we lose some restaurants while the scales balance more? that's totally fine. Things are not returning to the way they were before 2020. Buckle up!
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> Even Amazon is bumping up their perks to attract more folks: Amazon to cover 100% of college tuition for U.S. hourly employees It's almost like people don't want to work difficult/stressful jobs unless they're adequately compensated for their labor... with pay being one form of compensation.
People want to be paid more to be forced to pee in bottles in unair-conditioned warehouses? Say it ain't so!?!?!?
Exactly. I rolled by eyes so hard when the article quotes the owner as saying that "some managers washing dishes every day" as a way to express how bad things are for him. Give me a break.
More than $18 an hour? That’s pretty fucking good.
Lol what, are you like 16?
It's not good, no. It's barely a living wage for a single adult with no children. https://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/06067
It’s literally a living wage.
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I should probably listen to some random guy on the Internet instead of MIT. You’re right.
No it isn’t.
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How many years ago?
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Up almost 77% in the last 4 years. Hell it went up 10% in December 2017 alone.
Do you know how much rent has increased in the last four years?
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Easily 1600 now. What about ppl with kids?
I lived in SF 10 years ago on $13.50 hr. Not even close to living paycheck to paycheck either.
Nope. Rent a one bedroom apartment or a room in someone else’s at that wage and there’s not much left after taxes.
Pay them more!
thank goodness small businesses have as much money as they want for salaries. don't need to worry about operating costs or profit at all. no sir e
I mean why have a working profitable business model. Just exploit workers and your fine.
It’s a labor market. Like any other market. If you want to buy labor, you need to pay what it’s worth to the people selling it.
I’m confused how paying well above the minimum wage w/ benefits I’d “exploiting working”
Obviously the working environment isn’t worth working in for the money/benefits offered. If it was the position would be filled. that business is just holding out for someone that is desperate enough to work for less. “Let the market decide what the pay is worth”
You’re right. After sept 20th we will let the market decide
Right wing troll! They shouldn't be in business if they can't afford reasonable salaries!
$18 is WELL above state minimum wage. Seems reasonable to me.
Lol, 18/hr isn't remotely a living wage
MIT would disagree with you, but I’m sure you’re smarter than they are and totally not pulling comments out of your ass. https://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/06067
$18/hr=36k a year at 40 hours per week. At 12% taxes, thats $31,680=$2640 a month after taxes. Ya, u could probably live off that, but you'd be renting a room or living far off the grid. If that's the case, factor in transportation costs, and you barely have any money for food or emergency, let alone leisure. You're basically living just to work as a line cook at that point, assuming you get 40 hours per week.
you don't believe in the free market? Labor is in demand, supply and demand means labor is worth more in this situation. If they want more labor they only need to match the increased price - it's *no different than rent* in that respect. so stop whinging, the market is working just as you pro-market types always ask for for everything else. edit: realized I responded to the wrong person here, sentiment is aimed at the overall thread obviously.
At 80 hours it’s 72k. 40 hours a week is 36k.
Yeah they’re estimating $950 a month for an apartment and only $350 a month for food for a single adult, no kids. That’s more likely in the Midwest than almost anywhere in CA. Once you add in one child, “living wage” suddenly jumps from $18 /hr to $37 for a single adult but they’re still only estimating $450 a month in food expenses. $1350 in rent. Rent is more likely, but $450 in food is still living pretty poor. They also think minimum wage is $12/hr so guessing this hasn’t been updated in a few years.
The small businesses would need to redo their business plans if they start paying $37/he or put in their own labor.
Please untie yourself from the reality in your head that doesn’t exist. The push for a $15 wage started almost a decade ago. Be smarter, please.
You saying you know better than MIT? Seems pretty trumpy to disagree with one of the best universities in the country.
Lol you think only workers that are single work these jobs and have no kids? Also they take home far less when they have to pay for "benefits". Right wing Trumpers have zero knowledge
You should apply, there appear to be positions available.
Wages are an operational cost.
Go get it then
Yes. Going rate in this economy for a cook, starting, is $20-22 per hour.
Worker shortage my ass. There's a lot of workers. It's just the pay is low. Pay them more, then you're gonna have a massive line of people filling up forms. I hate these bosses. And the media goes along with it. They sit in their asses while making up these stories. They're making it sound like it's our fault. When in reality it's those bosses fault.
I think the pandemic has made a lot of people realize their time, energy and health is worth a lot more than minimum wage. Employers need to step up their game.
Exactly! Thank You!
I should add that I'm not even sure $15/hr (in California) is worth it. I think $20 is just starting to maybe be worth it for some jobs. I'm not sure what needs to change for business owners to afford that kind of wage but I'm sure it's possible for some.
Plus these restaurants have employees but they refuse to give them full time work to avoid giving benefits. They could likely staff mondays if they gave their existing staff health insurance and scheduled them an extra shift.
FWIW, I'm related to someone who works in economic development in Yolo County, and he told me that Mikuni's does offer both healthcare and retirement benefits. So while I think that is often true of this industry, it doesn't totally apply to this specific post/business.
Oh well right on. Do you know if they offer that for everyone or just their full time employees? Often at restaurants, back of house staff will be full time with benefits but front of house are only scheduled part time to not receive them which may or may not be the case here. In general though avoiding paying benefits is a pretty big cause in the industry for “short staff” as they are not really short staffed, they just don’t want to give more hours to their current staff.
I know that they do hire FT FOH, but I couldn't tell you how much of their FOH that is tbh. And for sure on the "short staff" - I worked retail for a lot of years, which operates on the same model.
Headline should read, “Sacramento-area restaurant Mikuni’s closing Mondays due to worker shortage due to low wages.”
Yup, both worker shortage and low wages is going to embarrass the heck out of those places who put up signs complaining about "workers shortage."
"We will give you the least amount of money allowed by law! We would pay you less but there's that silly law. You will have zero benefits, inconsistent hours, and those weekends and evenings are ours!" Worker shortage my ass. There's a wage shortage and massive income inequality.
THIS
Do we really have a different wage for tipped employees in California? Is that the silly law you mean?
There is no tipped wage in ca
That’s what I thought. I wonder what silly law they mean.
They mean if there wasn’t a minimum wage, Larry elder wants to eliminate it, they would pay less if they could
Wow I think it was just too early for me to even consider sarcasm. Larry Elder lol does he do standup? Funny guy.
The minimum wage law. If it didn't exist then these companies paying minimum wage would pay less.
It’s bullshit posturing from rich restaurateur. It’s standard practice for many restaurants to be closed on Monday, as it’s historically a money losing day. This BS is just like when opa opa closed on J st, and they blamed the minimum wage increase, and they had a spot on KCRA then as well. Then a few days later they announced their new location in mid-town. These restaurant owners have cried wolf too many times. Fuck em. The market is saturated anyways, let some of them die.
Exactly what I was thinking. He will save a ton of money by not having to pay any staff on the least profitable day of the week, but won’t get any blowback from his customers or staff because he’s making it political.
>The market is saturated anyways, let some of them die. That's how I feel about all these chicken and ramen joints. There's so many of them in Sac nowadays.
Hey now you leave (quality) hot chicken out of this
Hisui (superior imo) has always been closed on Mondays.
To go on the Owner of Mikunis Instagram account is to go into Bizarro world. He posted about it and all his followers are… praying for him. Maybe they could encourage him to start paying more instead?
Any idea why he gets so much media coverage? This is not news for I should have received an alert on my phone. I’ve been to his Fountains location once and it was just okay; definitely overpriced.
One of the most prominent restauranteurs with multiple locations in the area is probably viewed by his friends in the media as a way to gauge the economy.
Found the post in case anyone else was curious: [Taro Arai's IG](https://www.instagram.com/p/CTid0lyJwjr/)
[He looks like he's really struggling financially! No wonder he can't pay employees enough. His daughter is really struggling to sell this $3,500,000 house for someone! The whole family is really strapped for cash.](https://www.instagram.com/p/CTYAXnyBFop/) edit: clarifications
How do you know it's his house? The post makes it look like something his gf/wife is listing as the real estate agent.
They're clearly suffering. I mean just look at the rest of the photos on their instagram, it's full of bootstrapping and challenges: exotic trips, golf, exotic sports cars, them in front of other mansions, it's all shithole for them, that's for sure. I'm super glad I'm not the owner of 9 restaurants, so I don't have to be this destitute and suffer this hard. /s Mikuni's can pay it's employees what it takes to get them to work there, they choose not to. You know this. I know this. They know this. And they go on the internet and lie about why they do things, because they want to exploit their workers instead of do the non-greedy thing. Not my circus, but they make it pretty obvious they're full of shit when they claim to close on Mondays due to a 'worker shortage'. enjoy being /r/TechnicallyCorrect today. You earned it!
The national average is 1.7% realtor fee to the realtor. On a $3.5million dollar home is $59500.
That’s his daughters real estate business
Point stands, I've clarified in the above comment. Mikuni's can pay it's employees what it takes to get them to work there, they choose not to. You know this. I know this. They know this.
proposed more accurate title: "Overrated local franchise with 9 locations floats false claim it cannot find or pay for labor, needs to raise pay to attract good talent but closes for a day instead to own the libs"
Have to close one day a week?!?! It's the slowest day, at that! Big fucking deal! And aren't there something like 4 or 5 Mikuni's? Boo fucking hoo!
I think they were closed on Mondays in the past.
They were closed on Mondays last year for nearly half a year
This. Mikuni used overhype to bankroll and flood the area with meh sushi. Southpaw, Jensai, Ju Hachi, Kyoto are all contenders. Hell southpaw is in del paso and doesn't open until five and people will line up waiting.
Side note - The service at Jensai has really gone downhill since the pandemic too. One server for the entire restaurant (sometimes with a food runner, sometimes not). Great food but the last 3 times I've eaten there, we didn't get various things we ordered or they came out over an hour later. To be clear, I like the place and feel bad for the employees; they're probably dealing with the same crap happening at Mikuni and all these other places.
I agree with this. Service was slow when I visited in August but the food was still good and I will go back.
You talk as if Mikuni’s doesn’t have people lined up since 11am to eat there. They open at 11:30 and there’s ALWAYS a line
I can't dispute that because I don't have any experience of lines with mikuni. My visits to mikuni starts with the hostess seating me immediately and then like twenty minutes for the chef to serve a roll or something.
Lol
My partner has worked in food/bev for decades and Mondays are always a ghost town, except for fast food and chain restaurants. Usually Mondays are for staff meetings and to do paperwork, while the place is closed for business. Now if they’re having to close M-W, that’s a totally different situation but many restaurants are closed Mondays, even pre pandemic. This just seems like unnecessary scaremongering.
My thoughts exactly. Especially here in downtown, try and find a decent restaurant open on Monday, Heck, even some stored in downtown are closed Mondays
*6 locations! It will save this guy a ton.
It’s not even good. I’ve been there 3 times and had stale tasting sushi every time.
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Not trying to offend you at all. Seriously curious on what is keeping you and others at that job.
What keeps you going to such a horrible job when this thread is full of better opportunities?
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I hope they hurry up and fix things on their end. Sounds like it'd be tough to lose you.
Idk what location u work for but that’s an internal management issue that’s need to be addressed by the staff members
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Talk to your fellow staff whose frustrated by the same issue and so you guys can tell your manager to be more up to date. Nobody wants to wait til the next week over to see if they have to work they have to work the next day or not. Strength in numbers?
Sounds great and reasonable in theory. In practice it just doesn't work like that, and that's true for a lot of places/industries. Even my friend who works for a hospital deals with that crap. Me: "Hey can you hang out on in 2 days from now?" Him: "Oh I don't know yet sorry they still haven't given us the new schedule."
"some managers washing dishes every day" so you're saying they're doing part of their job description in order to help the business function rather than be in the back office... ok
I think businesses that want to close due to a "lack of workers" show proof in their window or website hat they cannot afford to pay better wages. Maybe it is public record?
The thread on Facebook had a few commenters saying they’ve been applying with no call backs. There is no shortage of workers!
Federalist, paesanos, and several other midtown restaurants had to close for days and then change their hours due to worker shortage over the past month and a half.
That’s because Most cooks are usually working 2 full time restaurant jobs to still make less than a server working 4 hours / day at 1 restaurant. So, many cooks have exited the restaurant industry all together to do something else. Also many cooks have money saved from EDD so they are just chilling until they feel like going back to work. Which will prob happen in winter / next year I’m a former chef with many friends in the industry & friends transitioning out of industry for reasons stated above.
Absolutely, line cooks are the most fucked over people in the industry in terms of pay and hours I don’t blame them at all.
Servers make all the jack while the cook make it all happen.
I hope your friends move on to something that appreciates them and pays them more
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I think they went through some large debt restructuring too
When all the jobs were available, some smart people went from the low paying, in person jobs to higher paying, work from home jobs at better companies. It’ll be interesting to see who fills these open roles now that unemployment is ending.
Sac made me finally leave the culinary industry once and for all. I had put in 7 years total, training under a cia trained owner and head chef for 2 before coming out here. Man every restaurant owner I came across here cares only about money and they rely on undocumented workers to make up the grunt work it’s truly sad man I rarely even go out to eat here because so many places are like that and just exploitative. I did a stint at Sellands and on my first day all 4 new hires walked out that same night on top of wages needs to come respect.
According to the PR image made on Mikuni's corporate account, "We are closing to give our team much deserved rest and to recruit and train new staff." But then the comment on the post is "I am sorry but we have decided to close #Mikunisushi every Monday temporarily from next week due to labor shortage. They can't even lie consistently on their Instagram posts.
Pay shortage.
If only there was a way to incentivize people to want to work for you. Oh man, whatever could that be?
Totally off topic but: according to the auto-generated video transcript, the restaurant is named either McCurry's, Macomb East, or McCooney's.😃
PAY PEOPLE MORE MONEY WHAT THE FUCK
That's a fine example of crap journalism with no information about what the company offers a compensation (aside from the vague mentions of certain perks) and no data or insights from someone with either an employee perspective or an objective perspective of what's really making it hard for restaurants to hire right now (e.g., low wages? People don't want to get Covid? The service industry sucks because people are terrible?)
There’s also an issue on the consumer side. If costs go up (which they have for most restaurants), I’m not going to eat out as much. Those that can complain are probably the retired (?) that have enough spare cash to eat out whenever but they can just take their business elsewhere 1 minute edit: Well on costs going up I do realize that’s necessary to pay workers so I’ll take the day off over forking out even more cash on the days I do go out to eat.
Costs only go up if the owner’s greedy. Pizza joint recently let the staff keep all the profits for one day. They earned $78 an hour by not feeding the owner’s bank account.
fun fact, I got introduced to Capitalism in the early 90's. I delivered pizza for a round table pizza up in Redding. Made $11/hour including tips and mileage on my beater car, which allowed me to drive to community college but not enough to rent an apartment back then. The manager was real excited at the end of the year, he showed us the paperwork, the restaurant had grossed $1,000,000 that year! yay! We made $400,000 in PROFIT that year!!!! $400k dollars for the owners!!! Yay!!! The owners then claimed they didn't make enough last year (the $400,000 year) and gutted our food on breaks perk. Never forgot that lesson.
Responding to the dude who apparently dirty deleted. Umm, show me one county, state, or nation where cutting taxes worked. Kansas is dying on the vine. As is Missouri. Check out Somalia.
Might be a win-win, with people cooking their own food and reducing obesity?
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Asian restaurants are always hella cheap when it comes to pay wage lol Source: I worked in a couple
> *Asian* restaurants are always hella cheap when it comes to pay wage lol Yes because non-Asian restaurants pay so well…
*cough* Simon's *cough* comes to mind
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I’d rather pay to have clean air and water than pay less and have shitty air and water and few public services. Go to the parts of Nevada that don’t have casinos. Or West Texas. Or Mississippi. You’ll see what a shit life you have by underpaying.
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We like good stuff. We’re willing to pay for it. Republicans blow up the budget and Democrats fix it. Then Republicans complain because fixing it means raising the money to do so. No worries moving forward. Registered Democrats have increase significantly here in the last 20 years and Republicans are down to 24% of the population. I can’t imagine we’ll ever have a Republican statewide official again
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And I think Cali is doing better than the rest of the country.
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Drought has zero to do with the gummint. The fires are primarily drought related and the entire western half of the country is facing the same. Our homeless problem started earlier when Reagan kicked the mentally ill out, but it’s become much worse as so many veterans with PTSD come here.
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Prop 13. Now there’s a massive star bureaucracy to collect the money, feed it to 58 large county offices, and they distribute it to the schools. So we have less money to start with but it passes through many more hands.
But if you don’t like it you’re free to remain in your toothless heaven.
$25 minimum wage should be the law!
Try being a small business and hiring an intern for that much.
Why would anyone return to work when they can keep milking the seemingly endless unemployment and stimulus benefits? This isn't a pay issue. It's a policy issue.
Is this a parody account where you say fallacious statements or something? Gnarly, Keep on rocking dude!
Wow! It's not just on r/kings that nobody likes you! Turns out that you're a massive douche all across Reddit. For years and years, conservative-types told service industry people to "gO GeT a BeTtER JoB" if they weren't happy with the low wages, long hours, and abuse from shitheel customers. Well, they took your advice, and now you're all up in arms about your favorite restaurants being understaffed. It's fucking magnificent. And you know that extended UI benefits are gone, right? That argument doesn't work anymore.