Fast-food employees are pretty much the canonical beneficiaries of a minimum wage law. Fast-food outlets can afford to spend more on salary (in that, they will

Fast-food employees are pretty much the canonical beneficiaries of a minimum wage law. Fast-food outlets can afford to spend more on salary (in that, they will still be profitable and it doesn't affect their viability as a business) but have no inclination to, and therefore must be forced by law. As an additional bonus, they can't outsource their work to another, cheaper state. Great - the minimum wage law works exactly as intended, in this particular case. It's less obvious that this applies to other industries. Will average households employ a domestic cleaner at minimum wage? Small, near-viable businesses where salary is the largest expense: what happens to them when the minimum wage increases? What happens to people who are thinking about starting businesses with that as a risk?