Comments on The Burd Report: Now would be a good time

To each their own. I have now completed my third...

2010-03-28T08:30:13.011-04:00

To each their own.

I have now completed my third installation and bar-tended one small gathering of sensible types who wanted draught beer. Next Saturday the temperature is expected to hit 23-degrees. Business looks promising indeed as cottage season is upon us and suburban garage doors are raised in celebration of the end of winter.

Bar owners are going to use the minimum wage hike to their advantage -as they will always do. I will not be going with Ms. Thrasher's flow. I will be going with my own $2.50-a-pint flow. And flow it does....

Merklin, you should never pay a dime for Molson Ca...

2010-03-24T16:05:33.419-04:00

Merklin, you should never pay a dime for Molson Canadian... it's just mopped up spillings off John Labatt's floors.

Last time I darkened Ms. Thrasher's Boston Piz...

2010-03-24T09:54:39.700-04:00

Last time I darkened Ms. Thrasher's Boston Pizza doorstep I was thrashed for $6.50 for a 20oz pint of Molson Canadian draught. I am most grateful for that gouge becuase it set me on the path of converting old refrigerators into 'kegerators' of which I now have two with more kits and CO2 bottles on their way through Customs. But I digress. The point of a raise in the medium wage killing jobs isn't being looked at rationally. I cite Ms. Thrasher's intemperate response as Example #1.
My argument is this, backed by no particular insight or resaerch, just a sick little feeling in my gut: If the minimum wage were to go up 3.5% (I'm puling figures out of the air for argument sake), I gaurantee you Ms. Thrasher would raise the price of a 20oz pint of Canadian draught by at least 7%. In other words, for people already comfortable wth gouging the shit out of the public, an increase in the minimum wage is the perfect excuse to gouge even deeper and increase their already embarassing profit ratio. Of course, a key component in the strategy, the thing that makes it work in the public's conscious, is Screaming Like A Stuck Pig And Portraying Yourself As The Victim.

'Scuse me. I'm going out to the shed for a perfect $2.50 20oz pint of Molson's Canadian on draught. |Yep, two-fifty. That's what it costs me and that's what it costs Ms. Thrasher.

I know a musician in a band who has played at Bost...

2010-03-23T20:15:16.930-04:00

I know a musician in a band who has played at Boston Pizza more than once. He said they had to argue with management to get paid, and the deal they struck was somehow changed without their agreement, resulting in less pay than promised. Free pizza is nice but doesn't pay the rent.

Now we know what kind of perspective this Chamber of Commerce president brings to the table as an employer. Not good.

Just in case anyone wonders, this band is good and the room was packed with people who liked their performance. There was no issue there, just an issue being paid what was promised.