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Restaurants are not going to go out of business.... Plus if you inject earned wealth into a class of people who don't make much they'll spend almost all of the increase, so with more dollars to spend the increases will be affordable. Also in Seattles case, if a downtown urban restaurant in a city with daytime population of over a million people has margins so thin that a 3 or 4 dollar bump in pay is going to break them then they haven't been running their business well for some time... Go visit any restaurant In downtown seattle between 8 am and 5 pm and tell me they're suffering..... There's no shortage of paying customers during the business day
The successful businesses you are seeing is the market in equilibrium. Now along comes this large increase in labor costs, upsets the apple carts all over.
Round and round the cost increases go, until the market settles on the new set of numbers and equalizes again. Those that you wish to help won't see anything but a short term gain, only to be lost when all the other prices increase. Remember the balloon example? It really does work that way.
I still don't see how you can jump a businesses' cost by that much without them raising their prices to compensate, regardless of how well they run their business. How much experience in the Restaurant business do you have? Last I heard their margins were very thin. That being the case, there's no flexibility or ability on their part to absorb that cost increase in labor. They have little choice but to pass it on to their customers. The customers are going to react to that. More will stay home.