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Brian Foster

Brian Foster

American mixed martial artist and kickboxer

Aug 13, 2026

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Labor's a tremendous problem for restaurants right now.
0:05
Minimum wage has been going up tremendously, and what we're also seeing is because of the costs going up, we see restaurants actually reducing their headcount to try to control some of these costs.
0:22
We ran some numbers recently where over the last two years actually, we're seeing 6% less heads at a given restaurant.
0:33
And so what that means is that the restaurants are having to do far more with less people than they've done before.
0:42
It can be a very difficult situation for them.
0:48
[upbeat music] Hey everyone.

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24:10
[laughs]
24:10
You, you're buying pepperoni, you're buying mozzarella cheese, right? And you might have several vendors that you're buying all these products from, but you have hundreds and hundreds of ingredients because you sell subs, you sell salads, right? Everything.

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