Hawaii’s restaurant industry is getting hit with sad news after longtime eateries announce they plan to call it quits. For more Local News from Hawaii News Now: https:/www.hawaiinewsnow.com For more RU-vid Content: / @hawaiinews
@@howzit9397 Prices rising fast on the mainland too. Rents going up as well. In Vegas, 1 bedroom apartments are about $1,700. I have seen residents complain that a single person needs to earn $70K to rent a 1 bedroom. Sad!
@@mjblue84 well consider Hawaii is already is one of the highest cost of living in the country there’s places on the mainland with higher pay and cheaper cost of living still better then Hawaii so prices maybe going up in the country but Hawaii will still be higher then most. I would say Hawaii economy is close to what California and NY is but they still have higher wages then Hawaii
Democrats in Californa vote to increase their own taxes and DAs who do not procecute and early release criminals. Now we got prop 1 to supposedly help the mental and homeless. The taxpaoyers will give billions with no accountability. San Fransico just now realizing their woke ideas on crime has not worked but made it worse.
California is the best example of proof and evidence to destroy the entire US. The crime, climate change pyrenoia, mandates, economy rug-pull, all under the next puppet making his grand debut to run for prez 2024 when Biden steps aside… Gavin Newsome
That is so b.s having the end of a lease make aunties final decision. Brah, there is hardly anywhere to get good hawaiian food and this is hawaii!! everything is getting more and more messed up. Hope they have a nice new chapter in life!
Oh man. So sad. I live in California and visited Haili’s in late February. Haili was so nice to us by letting us place an order after she closed for the day. We will miss her and the restaurant.
Here in California minimum wage is $21 an hour with the exemption of business owner that are campaign donors of the governor… employees of Panera Bakery and restaurant: Applebees are complaining!
Please understand that the RENT is what is closing these businesses. Her lease is up. The landlord wants the inflated rent amounts. Inflation is a real thing. The cost of the food ingredients is up a lot. The manufacturers and farmers want these inflated rates. Wages are a scapegoat in this math. Customers can not afford the prices they would have to pay to cover these food supply price increases. Restaurants close. Wage increase is not the culprit.
Finally a level headed person. Hawaii people think paying employees $14/hr (poverty wages) is communism. The Republican Party (the party of landlords and big business) really gains some serious ground on 1950s style fear mongering tactics.
It's a combined effect on the small businesses. They cannot continue because everything is going up in price; food, wages, rent, and utilities. When you don't make enough money to cover all the basic necessities to keep open, it will shut down.
@rhomotor yep I agree. However, it seems the media wants to continually ram down our throats that the business closers are due to wage increases. That is not true. The media also chooses not to address the real deep problems we all face due to rapid inflation. Our government chose to take food prices out of the inflation equation. Probably so our media would bite on the wage angle as food prices are seemingly not important.
@@ShrimpBarbarian You do realize that Democrats have controlled Hawaii for some time now? Your, blame the Republicans for the mess that democrat policies have created, is total B.S.
Using employees as slaves is a cop out! Look at the rising rents. The City Council could put a cap on rent like New York, San Francisco. It’s a blight on our communities.
funny the woman mentions the farmers. I find it hard to buy local when I can buy from the mainland cheaper. let’s think about it, how is it a product can be grown in a different part of the world put on a truck then move to an airplane or boat then to another truck that then transport to a store/market and be cheaper than locally grown produce that was grown here and only needed to take a truck ride to the store/market from the farm? I think local farming is contributing to the closing of many businesses. I understand the compassion for each other and trying to “buy local” but I think the cost of many small food and restaurant businesses closing down will be in the wake of it all.
It’s because of “economies of scale” those big food farms can charge less than the small time farmers here but I can still find produce lower than mainland garbage
When the small mom-n-pops stores and eateries go by the wayside, the big-name brands will suffer also, or even more. People will look elsewhere and spend their money wisely.
When a restaurant closes a farmer, container maker, doesn't lose business. People are just going to the restaurant 20 feet away to eat and the farmer, container maker, sells more to that place instead. When a restaurant closes its customers don't stop eating and starve to death. Restaurants close because they're not as good as the place 20 feet away. Maybe prices too high, bad service, bad food, people getting sick, whatever. When a restaurant closes it makes space available for someone else to try and offer something to the community of value.
What makes me sick is that alot of the people responsible for the 14 dollar minimum wage are non english speaking immigrants who have dug themselves in like tics for twenty thirty years to these entry level 5 dollar an hour positions and decided to make a career out of it instead of bettering themselves and climbing the ladder like the immigrants before them who actually helped to build this country.We have to up our immigration standards."MORE CREAM,LESS CRAP".
