NY institutes $15 minimum wage and they raise the price of my Pizza Slice.

[edhopper]

It went from $2.75 to $3 a slice.
I have to pay an extra quarter just so those guys who make my pizza can have a living wage.
Outrageous!
Great pizza, so I will have to bite the bullet and keep buying. But I am only getting 11 slices for the same amount I use to get 12.
The horror!

[PSPS]

1. How can you even get up in the morning knowing this horror awaits you?

[ExciteBike66]

2. "But I am only getting 11 slices for the same amount I use to get 12. "

Consider it a diet!

[underpants]

3. Is there a charge for the knife and fork to eat it?

[KentuckyWoman]

41. Ya, you need to be hiding behind that wall

what kind of goober doesn't know to fold over the slice?

I'm completely unedgumakated and even *I* know THAT !!! 11 !!!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

4. Next, we'll have to buy "Caviar Helper".

?

+

[pecosbob]

5. Here's my day

Long story short...horrific injury to arm...had to sell small business...phone shut off yesterday, internet will be tomorrow...went in to start a temp job today, but the service screwed up my I-9 Citizenship Verification form...locked out of their system until DHS shutdown is over. Needed to vent somewhere...

[edhopper]

16. But how much

do you have to pay for pizza?

Hey, I feel you, hope things turn around for you.

[gratuitous]

22. I hear ya

The longer the Trump Shutdown drags on, the "partial" moves closer to the "full" as government agencies that interact with each other (i.e., all of them) are unable to continue with their jobs because they're waiting for a response from another agency that's shut down and unresponsive to their request for information or assistance or confirmation or whatever.

As those unprocessed I-9 forms pile up, the backlog and the delay will grow two days for every day the Trump Shutdown continues, because the new applications for I-9s doesn't stop, and the old ones just age.

[OhZone]

6. When I was in NYC with my Uncle a couple of years back -

He pointed out where Ray's Pizza used to be (on 6th and 12th I think?), and said he used to get giant slices for a buck. You had to eat the first part with a knife and fork they were so big.

[onetexan]

7. Time for Di Giorno's

A 3 pack is only $10-12 bucks @Sams Club. Its yummy too!

[edhopper]

17. Might be fine

for people who can't get real NY pizza.

[brooklynite]

8. It doesn't matter...

Every NYer knows that the price of a pizza slice is calibrated to the cost of a subway fare, which is going up shortly.

[PatSeg]

9. Who knew it would be SO expensive

to raise the minimum wage??? Just imagine what you could do with that extra quarter??? Well, not much, but you can imagine something really big.

[dsc]

10. I honestly think you are getting gouged a bit here

The minimum wage increased from 13 to 15 which is a 15% increase in the wage. Your pizza increased from 2.75 to 3.00 which is an 11.1% increase. Dividing 11.1 by 15 yields .74 which means 74% of your pizza's cost came from labor if that increase were to be justified. I think that is highly unlikely.

[WeekiWater]

11. Costs to the employer go up more than just the increase in minimum wage.

So you final number would be just a bit higher.... I think.

[dsc]

12. the percent shouldn't be though

I know there is SS taxes, medicare etc but those should go up the same percent as the wage.

[Scruffy1]

25. the izza industry runs about 30% labor. n/t.

[Power 2 the People]

13. +1

[Totally Tunsie]

14. You can still have the 12 slices...

just cut them a bit smaller. Sooner or later, you'll adjust to the loss of quantity.

Even a "pound" of coffee is now 12 ozs. <shame>

[ProudLib72]

15. Take the Metro up to New Haven and go to Modern Apizza or Pepe's

Boycott your pizzeria. Show them what you think of this outrageous cost increase!

[edhopper]

18. Went to Frank Pepe's in NH

about a month ago.
Damn that was good pizza!

Will have to try Apizza next time we are there.

[ProudLib72]

21. I'm partial to Modern myself

Of course you know, fights break out over which is better.

[Loubee]

20. The owner class will always raise their prices...

so that their customers will blame the working poor for wanting a subsistence wage.

[guillaumeb]

27. Welcome to DU.

A great observation.

Greedy owners always call those asking for a living wage "greedy workers".

[LeftInTX]

30. This is only 25 cents

I think it's fair to raise the price in this case. (The people who make cheap pizza in NYC are mom and pop joints)

McDonald's in Texas is another story. No minimum wage increase. Prices keep going up.

[genxlib]

23. That deserves a look at this classic

Stephen Colbert on the effect of Obamacare on the cost of Papa Johns Pizza

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/4fqxvr/the-colbert-report-obamacare---pizza-costs

[TheBlackAdder]

24. With materials & overhead, a large plain pie costs around $4.50 (NYC $6) to make--rest is profit!

[guillaumeb]

26. Buy 10 and save $3.

Invest that $3 a week for approximately 3,467 years and you too will be a millionaire.

[Joe Nation]

28. The bright side of your predicament....

It's only New York pizza. If it were Chicago pizza, well then, I'd raise holy hell. Ah, what the heck, no I wouldn't, it's Chicago pizza after all.

[edhopper]

32. No don't get be started!

[Joe Nation]

35. Deep-dish, the casserole of pizza

[edhopper]

36. They are actually

both great, just different.

In NY we are seeing restaurants with true Neapolitan pizza, even have ovens from Naples.
Different from NY style but wonderful.
Then there is brick oven, wood fire, coal fire....

Love it all.

[Joe Nation]

37. Me too. Pizza is just damn good.

[LeftInTX]

29. In Texas, they didn't raise the minimum wage and the price of a Big Mac keeps skyrocketing

What gives?

Can't afford shitty food from McDonald's.

[edhopper]

33. Labor costs

as immigrants stay away, they have to pay more for workers. Thank ICE for this.

[MaryMagdaline]

31. Makes me want to order more pizza!

[edhopper]

34. Het what gives?

51 Recs and I'm not trending?

It's like the Mods don't think this is important.

[marked50]

38. Please,please don't bite the bullet.

[edhopper]

39. I am glad i put the

:sarcasm" thingy on my OP

I imagine I would have gotten a different response had I not.

[Ron Obvious]

40. $15 an hour isn't remotely a living wage in NY

But I agree with your main point.

[edhopper]

42. True

but it's a start.