New York Thing Both Bad and Yet Too Good to Be True

Dollar pizza: no.

2 Bros., the Manhattan dollar-slice emporium responsible for filling drunk and grumbling guts and killing Manhattan’s corner pizzerias, is now grappling with a lawsuit from current and former employees going back six years, who claim that the pizza chain mandates 60- to 70-hour work weeks for a less-than-minimum-wage hourly rate, sans overtime.

Extremely cheap nail salons exploit their workers and make them sick; dollar pizza is not feasible in New York, apparently, without underpaying the people who make and serve it. What’s next? What New York business fixture, in the face of the city’s peculiar and increasingly brutal business proposition, will shift enough of its burden to its employees that it suddenly seems… impossible? Bodegas, probably.

Photo by Jeff L