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Important update! I have been to a Tom Douglas restaurant. The Palace Kitchen. It was okay, but not great. I'll probably throw some Benjamins his way when I go to the Sci-Fi festival at the Cinerama, to find out what all the fuss is about. Also, you know, before they all go out of business.
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Licata is being disingenuous. Small business complained about the original proposal. It was then fixed and small business supported what became law.

On minimum wage, small business complained about Sawant's proposal, and hasn't commented yet on the Mayor's, as it hasn't been released.

Facts matter.
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"Facts matter." Fucking hilarious coming from you.
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It's a great program because there is ZERO enforcement. Let's have the city start to ENFORCE the program and see what happens
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@2 Bully to the restaurant owners for following the law, or, 70% of them anyway. I'll go to Lost Lake too, next time I'm up on Cap Hill.
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Dave - Lots of small business still opposed the law right up until passage. Fact DO matter. It's not at all accurate for you to say that "small business," as a monolithic entity, supported the ordinance at the time of its passage. See here for the list of supporting businesses: http://seattlehealthyworkforce.org/our-p…
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FACTS MATTER. Stowell and Douglas both still in opposition on Sept 16, 2011, 4 days after the bill was passed.

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/print…
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Thanks Lisa. And indeed facts matter greatly. Not just in the concrete particulars surrounding what happened w/sick leave, but in the larger frame of how these debates play out.

Whenever expansion of worker rights/benefits get proposed (sick leave, minimum wage increases, etc.) we hear the same old cries how this will kill jobs, force small businesses to close, and actually hurt more people than it helps. And yet, those predictions don't pan out. In fact, the reverse is true.

We are accumulating all sorts of hard data (actual facts, not alarmist anecdote) that wage increases, sick leave, and the like result in increased employment and benefit business.

Facts matter. Sky is falling anecdotes don't.
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I can't speak for everybody else, but I do rather like the idea that people working in the food service industry aren't sick while they serve me food and haven't struggled in because they can't afford to lose money. But I am weird like that.
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I don't speak for all decent people but, when I do, I like to tell Meinert to fuck off.
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Stowell thinks the hardest thing in the world is to run a small restaurant, he needs to quit the biz and go do something like, oh, I dunno, help people get off drugs, try to put a dent in the homeless problem, live on the streets for a awhile. When stacked up against real issues that involve making life and death decisions, running a small restaurant is one of the easiest things you can do.

And before anyone feels like mouthing off about my bonafides, I was practically raised in restaurants. My father owned a fine restaurant while I was growing up. I saw exactly what goes into running a restaurant.

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