Getting out while the getting is good.
Via Oregon Live:
The owner of a pair of trampoline parks is shutting them down, citing Portland’s minimum wage increases and the state’s mandate to provide part-time employees with sick leave. Millennials also share part of the blame, he said.
G6 Airpark owner Wesley Dameron, 38, in a note to customers drafted earlier this month that was posted to Reddit Wednesday, said he’s shutting down his parks in Southeast Portland and Vancouver. In addition to minimum wage laws and sick leave mandates, Dameron also blamed a “ridiculously litigious society” as a reason for shuttering the parks.[…]
“When parents sign a waiver and clearly understand that their kid is jumping on a trampoline, but hold our facility responsible when their child breaks a leg, it’s a blow to our organization,” he wrote. “It’s a massive time sink for me personally, it’s stressful, my wife stresses out, and it’s expensive.”