[Hot Tabasco]

If you have a bar and restaurant with 15 employees making $12 an hour, an increase to $15 will add an additional payroll of $45 an hour, $450 for a 10 hour day, $3,150 per week, $163,800 per year in payroll only.

Now you tell me how that owner is going cope with that wage increase and try and tell me it won't affect me as a customer...........

[DoodleDawg]

Now you tell me how that owner is going cope with that wage increase and try and tell me it won't affect me as a customer...........

Is that not also true for any increase in costs for the owner? The minimum wage has been static for 12 years yet costs have still gone up because the owner passes those costs on. Wages are no different.

[central_va]

If you have a bar and restaurant with 15 employees making $12 an hour, an increase to $15 will add an additional payroll of $45 an hour, $450 for a 10 hour day, $3,150 per week, $163,800 per year in payroll only.

The is a big restaurant/bar. What is it's gross revenue? What percent of revenue is the $163K? 2%, 5%?