Minimum Wage Battle Leads Franchisor to Discourage Urban Locations
Seattle, WA (PRWEB) June 30, 2014 -- It has been long known that urban center locations come with financial baggage. Taxes and lease rates are commonly higher in these locations but the owners generally accept the burden in exchange for being within a higher density of customers.
Mobile service based businesses have the advantage of not needing a physical location in an urban center to be able to tap into the customer base. Communication from the HomeTask Support Center indicated that the companies CEO, Jerrod Sessler, is discouraging their current and future Franchise Partners from locating in urban centers when he said, "It is not fiscally wise to locate your operation within an urban center when you can enjoy all of the benefits of the customer base without the threats of legislation that creates a negative impact on small business."
By threats, Sessler, is referencing the recent changes just a few miles from his headquarters where the City of Seattle passed a massive minimum wage hike.
Sessler believes strongly that it is unfair for the law to unilaterally single out franchised locations merely because they are part of a larger system. "These are small, local and independent business owners," Sessler says. He was also quoted in the Washington Post article date June 25th, 2014.
“If you have a city that is willing to pass this sort of legislation, it erodes a trust that they’re going to make decisions to help businesses grow and prosper...”
It is with that same tenacity that Sessler is discouraging the planting of new locations within urban centers. Does this indicate that this CEO or others are giving up the fairness fight? By no means as Sessler was recently quoted, "The minimum wage laws will ultimately hurt everyone but will hurt those that the laws are designed to protect first. Just like much of the other dump legislation that has been enacted in recent panic post recession years, this too will be tempered over time and hopefully rescinded in exchange for a healthy, thriving, growing free market economy."
R.Q. Bradley, ToDoBlue LLC, http://www.eatzoopa.com/, +1 206.763.6800, [email protected]
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