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Have Colorado Restaurants Hit a Tipping Point?
February 7, 2025•MinimumWage.com
While California and D.C. have made most headlines about bad wage laws hurting restaurants and their employees, another restaurant crisis is quietly brewing elsewhere: in Colorado. Statewide, Colorado has a small tip credit (just $3.02), but annually adjusts its minimum wage every year according to inflation (current $14.81 per hour). The capital city of Denver…
California Restaurant Prices Up 13% Under $20 Fast Food Wage Law
January 31, 2025•MinimumWage.com
Proponents of California’s AB 1228, which passed in September 2023 to raise the minimum wage for the fast food industry to $20 per hour, have repeatedly claimed the law has been “benign,” or even good (a “win-win-win”) for the state. Federal data shows the opposite. In addition to the thousands of job losses surrounding the…