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Probably not.

It will likely result in a cut in hours for marginal workers, boosted hours for higher productivity workers and more outsourcing/automation.

Labor intensive restaurant operations will have a competitive disadvantage to capital intensive models, and so we’ll see more capital intensive ones thrive.


We'll also see more performance pressure from managers of the affected workers, and more wage theft, e.g. pressure to put in time "off the clock".
The minimum wage is just the first impact of a law establishing a new state regulatory body with labor, industry, and public representation for regulating working conditions in the industry; wage theft in the industry was one of the motivating factors.

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