And raise the delivery fee to cover the higher wages you want drivers paid - if you want the driver to make $18/hr, then add in car costs, then add overhead/profit for the delivery service, and divide that by the estimated number of deliveries a driver can make in an hour - you could be looking at $10-12/delivery, with added fees if you are far from your restaurant...

The wages paid to the driver are YOUR responsibility, their pay is a function of the fees you pay.

My grandfather (a wealthy man that owned a large chain of successful regional restaurants) had the habit of tipping before being served, so the server knew to give good service. He was a good tipper and servers loved to see him come to their restaurant/bar.

Cherry-picked facts are always fun, I wonder how many of those workers were senior citizens supplementing their inadequate retirement savings with federal assistance?

If Walmart, McDonalds, etc all paid wages and offered each worker adequate hours such that they no longer qualified for SNAP, free school lunches, subsidized internet/cell service, Medicaid, etc then they would never be able to find sufficient workers.

I just saw an article where an employer said he'd no longer hire entry-level workers, they're just too expensive.

That's the issue in a nutshell.

Employers pay workers what they are worth, not what workers 'need', ideally. The incompetent (entry-level) worker has the same needs (rent, food, car, etc) as the expert worker, so should they both make the same wage? Of course not.

If it becomes illegal to pay a worker less than $18/hr, then jobs that aren't worth $18/hr will go away, and where will high school graduates with no discernible skills (yet, entry-level workers) learn those skills if they cost the employer just as much as a competent (experienced) worker?

Requiring a fast-food restaurant to pay a clerk $25/hr to stand at the counter to punch orders into a POS terminal will have the effect of eliminating that job, to be replaced by a kiosk. You may or may not prefer kiosks, but that counter worker was learning skills and good work habits, now where do they go?

It's not uncommon for waitstaff to be among the highest paid workers in a restaurant "depending on voluntary tips" isn't the purgatory you imagine for all wait staff...

Delivery services don't set food prices, this law only affects delivery services.

If we are going to start down the path of having to pay food delivery workers a 'living wage' and health insurance, then the days of online food delivery services are over since costs will sky-rocket.

I don't care myself, never used a food delivery service, wouldn't miss them if they were gone, but there are segments of the community whose lives were improved by having prepared meals delivered to apartments, dorms, offices, etc. so I see a reason to keep them around/viable.

Uh, there is a large, large population of people on this planet that are not directly or indirectly invested in the stock market - for starters, many Americans entire retirement "plan" relies on nothing more than social security. How many Indians are invested in the stock market? How Many Chinese citizens? Russians? See, there are literally billions and billions of people not invested in any stock market...

What kind of logic is that? We will artificially slow-down trading volume/speed to match what was possible 100 years ago because nobody thought they could make trades that fast? Do we have to hobble investors to the speed of manual traders on a trading floor because that was what the founders had in mind?

No. Let's not...

From the sub heading of the linked-to article:

and from TFS:

Seems like there are still quite a few solar projects going forward (not withdrawing their applications)

Perhaps he doesn't see a reason to provide special subsidies to solar projects, and he doesn't agree with the tax-exempt status solar projects enjoyed versus other sources of electricity? If solar is so great and cheap, why does it require so much taxpayer money to "make sense"?

So 51 solar projects withdrew their applications to connect to the power grid - that quote implies there are still about 150 more projects that still are applying to connect to the power grid - perhaps those 51 projects were marginal, only viable with free money from the state of Utah? And who know what the other (estimated) 150 power projects are? Are they coal-fired? Nuclear? Natural Gas-fired? Wind? Hydro? Solar? We Just Don't Know - but why let that get in the way of a good rant?

For those that didn't click thru to the article:

So he supports other "green" energy sources like Geothermal and Nuclear, interesting...

Where does it say the Governor denies "global warming"? He's doing two things - he's cutting subsidies and taxing Solar (probably to the same extent as other sources of energy - or are we pretending that nuclear, natural gas, etc are all operating tax-free in Utah?)

Why?

As noted in TFS:

I read that as removing special subsidies for Solar and treating it equally to other methods of power generation - putting solar on an equal funding/taxing basis as other sources of electricity could be seen as part of an "any of the above" strategy where the state doesn't pick winners.

There's nothing preventing anyone from building solar power plants, they just have to fully-fund it themselves.

FTFY - Her color, gender/genitals really never entered into it, once you concede she was "untalented"...

The last administration was paying utilities to shutdown coal-fired power plants before replacement generating capacity could be built... don't assume anyone considers logic when pandering to the eco-warriors!

The previous administration decided to have a White House summit promoting EVs, but either 'forgot' or simply choose not to invite the top-selling EV manufacturer in the U.S. because 'politics'. (The eco-warriors also burned and vandalized cars Tesla sold to private buyers because they hated the maker of the EV, somehow thinking that destroying a car Elon sold to someone else somehow hurt Elon?)

Logic is in short supply in today's political environment...

The ICE F150 is the most popular vehicle on the planet, sure, but not the F150 Lightning EV - if it was then Ford wouldn't cease production of the Lightning F150... right?