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>"A judge just blocked another effort to raise wages for restaurant workers in DC" Are maximum wages (set by law) a thing in the US? I only knew about the mini
by vram22 8y ago
>"A judge just blocked another effort to raise wages for restaurant workers in DC"
Are maximum wages (set by law) a thing in the US? I only knew about the minimum wage concept.
- alistairSH 8y agoNo, that quote is about raising the minimum wage.
- jefurii 8y agoWe need a maximum rent law.
- chipotle_coyote 8y agoNo, they're not. The judge blocked the effort to raise minimum wages, IIRC. The OP is basically correct that restaurant owners don't want to raise pay rates to a level that meets a "living wage" standard. They don't want to raise what they charge customers to the point where they could pay those rates, of course--but I'm not sure there's particularly good data to support the assumption that their customers would balk at doing so. These are restaurants with wait staff in high-cost cities, and raising the average ticket price per diner by $2 or $3 may not be enough to dissuade very many diners from choosing that restaurant. (I mean, I'm sure there's somebody out there who'd look at a menu and say, "I'd pay $28 for that flat iron steak, but $30? No deal!", but it seems like it'd be uncommon.)