2 of the 5 restaurant owners featured in KUOW scare story on $15 are actually opening new restaurants this year

It’s remarkable enough that NPR thinks it’s appropriate to do a story about the impact of $15 on restaurants without talking to a single restaurant worker or restaurant customer. But it’s even more amazing that they apparently didn’t bother to google the names of the restaurant owners either.

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About that story on zPizza and Seattle’s minimum wage…

Apparently one California-based international pizza chain has decided they somehow can’t succeed in Seattle’s Capitol Hill — one of the fastest-growing neighborhoods in the fastest-growing large city in the United States. Meanwhile, 14 different Seattle pizza places have posted job openings on craiglist in just the past week.

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