> By contrast, jobs in restaurants are hard to automate They are not so hard to eliminate. Some people claim the raise of self busing restaurants is in respon

> By contrast, jobs in restaurants are hard to automate They are not so hard to eliminate. Some people claim the raise of self busing restaurants is in response to hiring people to do those jobs is too expensive. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/dining/san-francisco-restaurants-service.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/dining/san-francisco-rest... The article above claims it's housing costs but the same trend is happening everywhere even places where housing costs are not SF. Of course it could just be a new trend of businesses and nothing to do with any other inputs whatsoever. These studies claimed a negative impact on new jobs meaning they claim the minimum wage hike made it harder for young people to find a job after the minimum wage went up. That could be because less people quit their now higher paying jobs. Whether that's a net plus or a net minus is probably debatable. https://evans.uw.edu/policy-impact/minimum-wage-study https://evans.uw.edu/policy-impact/minimum-wage-study https://evans.uw.edu/sites/default/files/webform/w25812_summary_final.pdf https://evans.uw.edu/sites/default/files/webform/w25812_summ...