Raising prices by 1.3% also has some impact on sales. In theory it should be greater than 1.3% (or else why hasn't the restaurant greedily raised its prices already). To get higher wages for the workers you need one of two things.
1. Go upmarket in some way, either sell nicer food with a better margin or higher more oroductive employees.
2. Through collective action of some kind get all competitors to raise their prices and pass the cartel profits to the worker (for instance a minimum wage law could accomplish this).
I am a google engineer, and a fairly successful one.
I would absolutely despise it if I had to manage my own OS, just like I despise thinking about my keyboard layout or text editor.
Hacker News overrepresents the hacker type which loves the feeling of full control but I'd estimate that at least 33% of engineers, including many very talented ones, don't want that, and only want to focus on the concrete problems they are trying to solve.
A lot of your relationship strategies depend on slack that will soon be gone. If a chore gets done by whoever is feeling less tired it simply won't get done. Explicitly decide who does what and be prepared to revisit frequently to make it fair.
1. Go upmarket in some way, either sell nicer food with a better margin or higher more oroductive employees.
2. Through collective action of some kind get all competitors to raise their prices and pass the cartel profits to the worker (for instance a minimum wage law could accomplish this).