You'd think they'd care about public opinion... or... no, you don't need public support when you're shutting down.

"Seattle�s $15 minimum wage law goes into effect on April 1, 2015. As that date approaches, restaurant across the city are making the financial decision to close shop. The Washington Policy Center writes that 'closings have occurred across the city, from Grub in the upscale Queen Anne Hill neighborhood, to Little Uncle in gritty Pioneer Square, to the Boat Street Cafe on Western Avenue near the waterfront.'"

Those places all sound so sweet and trendy, and to maintain their image, if they needed to maintain their image, they would want to support nice, progressive things like a jacked up minimum wage law.

Restaurant owners, expecting to operate on thinner margins, have tried to adapt in several ways including �higher menu prices, cheaper, lower-quality ingredients, reduced opening times, and cutting work hours and firing workers,� according to The Seattle Times and Seattle Eater magazine. As the Washington Policy Center points out, when these strategies are not enough, businesses close, �workers lose their jobs and the neighborhood loses a prized amenity.�

A city dies, but � oh! � what a beautiful corpse!