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**freeprescriptionplanrrx** · 08-08-2006, 11:23 AM

Originally posted by DAVOUT

You only forget that some existing restaurants will be closed because the rise in minimum wages makes them not profitable enough, and new restaurants will not be opened for the same reason. The demand to be referred to is not the demand of lunches but the demand of workers by restaurants owners. Or the restaurant-owner will simply ignore the law all-together and employ personnel illegally. I'm surprised that a Belgian like Maniac doesn't think of that.

08-08-2006, 11:23 AM	#18
freeprescriptionplanrrx Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 524 Senior Member	Originally posted by DAVOUT You only forget that some existing restaurants will be closed because the rise in minimum wages makes them not profitable enough, and new restaurants will not be opened for the same reason. The demand to be referred to is not the demand of lunches but the demand of workers by restaurants owners. Or the restaurant-owner will simply ignore the law all-together and employ personnel illegally. I'm surprised that a Belgian like Maniac doesn't think of that.
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