SEATTLE — Seattle’s Mayor-elect Katie Wilson will enter City Hall facing headwinds in the local economy and budget troubles right out the gate, which will create instant challenges around her proposals for new taxes.
This week, Skillet announced it will close multiple restaurant locations, and Pablo Y Pablo said it will close one, too. That followed the shuttering of Capitol Hill favorite Mamnoon and its sister restaurant MBar in South Lake Union, and the end of two Starbucks Roasteries, too.
Greg Patrillo of Skillet blamed higher minimum wages, food prices, inflation, and inability to keep raising his menu items, all as causes of the closures, noting that when customers pay more, it reduces demand…