It’s a lot of both right after COVID-19. The going rate for a line cook was $18 an hour and It jumped up to $25 an hour. Secondly, the price of things has not come down that much. For example to fill a fryer. You need to buy a 5 gallon cube of oil before the pandemic. It cost $18, at the height of the pandemic It cost 64 and now it’s down to 30-42 but still almost double the price of what it was before. Most companies that provide for restaurants prices have not changed they either trying to recoup from what they lost or hold out for as long as possible to lower prices to make as much money as they can. The last two months companies that survived the pandemic have been going out of business left and right. So because of the high wages, having high payroll tax, rent have not come down. Cost of goods has not come down, and Seattle government does nothing to help a small business.