26 thoughts on “Restaurateur Claims Unalienable Right to Hire Illegals”
Many restaurateurs say they are grappling lately with a shortage of labor, and a crackdown on immigrants — legal or illegal — could make for more hardships.
[Restaurant owner] Malécot said he is finding it particularly hard to find skilled cooks for the breakfast shift, although it’s unclear how much immigrant labor factors into the issue. The talent coming out of culinary schools can be difficult to employ sometimes, Malécot said.
“They come out and think they are going to earn $50,000, $60,000 a year,” he said. “They have no skill.”
Haha: "difficult to employ." God forbid you should have to pay wages that would attract workers.
Over the next decade, restaurants will likely create more jobs than the U.S.-born workforce can fill. The industry is expected to add 1.8 million positions over the next decade, a 14 percent increase in the industry’s workforce. But the U.S.-born workforce is expected to grow by just 10 percent over the same period. And the population of 16- to 24-year-olds, a major source of restaurant employees, isn’t expected to grow at all.
And BTW, anyone who has been following the story about how some people are worried that as the ratio of working people to retirees declines, Social Security will have funding issues, can tell you how helpful immigration would be for correcting that. But that would require the TrumpPenceZees to understand facts and logic, so…I can't wait to be a senior citizen bussing tables!
Great thing about restaurant jobs: lots of upward mobility for people with modest educational backgrounds. I've seen people move from valet parker to bus boy to waiter in the same (very nice but alas now gone) restaurant.
Also the jobs can't be exported to Bangladesh. With retail dying under the Amazon jackboot, restaurants, hair salons and manicure parlors are going to be all that's left of "downtown."
No kidding. I went from working in the darkroom of a photo studio to doing weddings for the same studio as I was going through college. After I got out of college, I got taken to similar type fancy restaurants, now on job interviews, that I worked as a photographer. I always feel a connection to the hired help.
I'm McD's averse, but god damn me, I do enjoy the occasional grass-fed Anus Burger from Carl's Jr. Favorite fast food joints are Original Tommy's, or In-n-Out sometimes. Lucky for me, there aren't any of them within a four hour drive.
I actually do eat at McDonald's sometimes, as la signora_Quarantanova likes their salads and coffee. Just discovered the Burger Lounge a coupla blocks from here serves terrific burgers and good salads, and you can phone your order in.
When I was in Southern California a couple of years ago as a medical tourist, I discovered [Habit Burgers.] Really excellent, if you can find one. They started in Santa Barbara. The one I found was in Glendale.
Got bunch here, including one in my hangout area. Will give it a try, thank you!
I'm guessing that, as was the case w/Lot_49 & Associates, you weren't hiring many folks who lived at the margins of legality the way dishwashers and cater-waiters might be. We used E-verify, which is trivially easy; the only reason for an employer not not to use it would be if he didn't care whether the worker was ultimately going to benefit from the SS and Medicare money he was taking out of the employee's check and sending to the feds.
Of course I was never told why I was rejected for security clearance, but I was repeatedly denied employment at the Nevada Test Site, and I know it wasn't for lack of qualifications. In the early 60's my mother was taking a Russian language course offered by PBS, and my older sister subscribed to Soviet Life magazine. I myself had a string of "arrests" for being a runaway, and they eventually got me on possession. Also, I had permission to borrow my parent's car, but when I wrecked it and the step-mother's "meds" were discovered in the glove compartment, I went down for GTA and possession for sale. Air Force rejected me. Once you're in the system, you don't get out.
Our med coverage also requires E-verify. Guess that would make us socialists. What other kind of small business would provide med coverage to there employees until the Kenyan Usurper put a gun to their head?
Mine get closeted if I'm posting from a "strange" IP address, and the occasional comment will get jammed for typographic reasons I haven't been able to figure out. But mostly they sail right through.
My comments get through, but any posts from my home computer go into moderation, and have done for years. The problem seems to be that I once used the correct medical term for 'dick' in a headline. Posts from my work computer don't go into moderation, so the ban is specific to one machine.
Haha: "difficult to employ." God forbid you should have to pay wages that would attract workers.
And BTW, anyone who has been following the story about how some people are worried that as the ratio of working people to retirees declines, Social Security will have funding issues, can tell you how helpful immigration would be for correcting that. But that would require the TrumpPenceZees to understand facts and logic, so…I can't wait to be a senior citizen bussing tables!
Great thing about restaurant jobs: lots of upward mobility for people with modest educational backgrounds. I've seen people move from valet parker to bus boy to waiter in the same (very nice but alas now gone) restaurant.
Also the jobs can't be exported to Bangladesh. With retail dying under the Amazon jackboot, restaurants, hair salons and manicure parlors are going to be all that's left of "downtown."
No kidding. I went from working in the darkroom of a photo studio to doing weddings for the same studio as I was going through college. After I got out of college, I got taken to similar type fancy restaurants, now on job interviews, that I worked as a photographer. I always feel a connection to the hired help.
Their definition of "restaurant" and mine differ slightly. I mean, who ever dubbed McDonald's a restaurant?
Mickey D's is a real estate scheme
I suppose you want food brought to your table, like an elitist.
Actually McDonald's does that in some of their "stores," as they call them. If only it could be more food-like in its quality.
I'm McD's averse, but god damn me, I do enjoy the occasional grass-fed Anus Burger from Carl's Jr. Favorite fast food joints are Original Tommy's, or In-n-Out sometimes. Lucky for me, there aren't any of them within a four hour drive.
I actually do eat at McDonald's sometimes, as la signora_Quarantanova likes their salads and coffee. Just discovered the Burger Lounge a coupla blocks from here serves terrific burgers and good salads, and you can phone your order in.
When I was in Southern California a couple of years ago as a medical tourist, I discovered [Habit Burgers.] Really excellent, if you can find one. They started in Santa Barbara. The one I found was in Glendale.
Got bunch here, including one in my hangout area. Will give it a try, thank you!
You wouldn't be able to hire me, to be sure.
I'm guessing that, as was the case w/Lot_49 & Associates, you weren't hiring many folks who lived at the margins of legality the way dishwashers and cater-waiters might be. We used E-verify, which is trivially easy; the only reason for an employer not not to use it would be if he didn't care whether the worker was ultimately going to benefit from the SS and Medicare money he was taking out of the employee's check and sending to the feds.
I haven't done coke since 1981- I hate carbonated beverages.
Of course I was never told why I was rejected for security clearance, but I was repeatedly denied employment at the Nevada Test Site, and I know it wasn't for lack of qualifications. In the early 60's my mother was taking a Russian language course offered by PBS, and my older sister subscribed to Soviet Life magazine. I myself had a string of "arrests" for being a runaway, and they eventually got me on possession. Also, I had permission to borrow my parent's car, but when I wrecked it and the step-mother's "meds" were discovered in the glove compartment, I went down for GTA and possession for sale. Air Force rejected me. Once you're in the system, you don't get out.
So, it seems, by telling weej the truth, you could get hired, making your statement a lie. Ain't that a pisser?
The truth is a lie! What else didn't they tell me?
Have you re-habilitated yourself?
Seriously, that sucks. Really helps a person to move forward in life- not.
It could have been way worse. I'm a white guy. I survived the encounter!
Sad but true for non whites
Our med coverage also requires E-verify. Guess that would make us socialists. What other kind of small business would provide med coverage to there employees until the Kenyan Usurper put a gun to their head?
Or why it hates you so much.
Mine get closeted if I'm posting from a "strange" IP address, and the occasional comment will get jammed for typographic reasons I haven't been able to figure out. But mostly they sail right through.
You're another trouble making Bolshevik too? Geez, my BFF from my undergrad days came straight from Crimea. I guess there's no escaping our destiny.
My comments get through, but any posts from my home computer go into moderation, and have done for years. The problem seems to be that I once used the correct medical term for 'dick' in a headline. Posts from my work computer don't go into moderation, so the ban is specific to one machine.
There's a blacklist! Who knew?
Well we did. The people you want to hire want it, as I'm sure you know.