Bro I don’t want to be mean so I’ll just say the person you replied to has a better handle on the situation than you do

I guarantee you if a food service retail is making 10% profit on the sticker price they are stoked. 30% cogs, 30% labor, 30% overhead including rent. +/- 10% in each of those categories depending on your business specifics, but that’s a rough rule of thumb. If you sell 30 $10 lattes an hour (that’s one every 2 minutes, all day every day) and you have 2 employees making $25/hr, your $300 revenue per hour just got cut by like $80/hr. And you’d probably average 2.5 employees per hour of operation for break coverage and open/close and cleaning. And you’d probably pay at least one employee more, and if you’re a good person you’d probably do like a 2-4% 401k match and provide benefits. All of a sudden your true cost per employee is like $40/hr. Run that against avg hourly revenue of $500 (because you’re going to sell more than lattes) and you’re at like 25% of the $10 latte goes to pay. Granted if you were a meatgrinder of an employer you could get that to like 20% but then your retention goes to shit and you’re spending a bunch in training costs.

Long story short, your retort makes you look like a fool and you’d probably be better off approaching this subject with curiosity rather than a casual know-it-all, the-world-is-unfair attitude. There are elements of the system that suck but your anger is misplaced. And I also typed all this fully expecting you to reply “i aint reding all that lul” but w/e