My place of business shut down, I didn’t lose my job. Many of these restaurant owners scored huge PPP loans that they will never pay back. Many are owned by large corporations that enjoyed big profits and paid little taxes. And in many cases, the workers didn’t even get 2 weeks notice, they were just dropped.

So, I do blame the restaurant owners. It is what it is, but if you treat your employees like they are immediately disposal, they should quit whining that they didn’t all come running back.

I live in a big hospitality town. We got hit really hard. Some places tried to cheat and stay open and skirt the rules, and still treated their employees as disposable. Others shut down and still paid the employees or found other things for them to do. Guess who doesn’t have problems hiring people right now? The ones that took care of their employees.

these same restaurants fought through the state Chamber of Commerce to kill any laws that would propose raising the minimum wage on tipped employees. It is illegal in my state for a city to raise the minimum wage above the federal minimum. The hospitality industry has the legislature in its back pocket.

Janet Yellen was right today. She said that if the extra federal unemployment was keeping people from going back to work then you would see the states with the highest unemployment (the most people getting federal unemployment) having the least amount of job gains but that’s not what’s happening. States with the highest unemployment are enjoying the biggest job gains.