I am not as concerned about high-school and college students who are working just to make a little money. But some people that age have kids and are working full-time. If you could craft an exception just for students making a little extra money...that would be fine.
First of all it is speculative that the restaurant industry lost jobs. They figured if the restaurant industry had grown as fast as the rest of San Diego they would have added 5,200 and not just 1,300 jobs in a 12 month period. We don't really know why that occurred. But even if we assume San Diego's higher minimum wage had an impact two things should be noted: (1) job growth in San Diego as a whole was good, was apparently not negatively affected, and that's the main thing, (2) the reluctance to add jobs may be due to the fact that employers see increased costs while being uncertain about increased revenues from low-wage workers having more income; things will adjust over time as employers figure out the enhanced revenue they will get from increased demand.
Employers are not going to just cut employees if that results in a loss of revenue. They will try to raise menu prices...but that might cause of loss of revenue. The easiest thing is to see if they can become more efficient--cut employee hours that are not essential (e.g, too many employees on a slow shift).
Anyway, you have to wait several years before you can see the full effect in the food industry. Overall, The San Diego example does not show anything...except good things. If overall job growth is good..and wages have gone up...what's to complain about?
First of all it is speculative that the restaurant industry lost jobs. They figured if the restaurant industry had grown as fast as the rest of San Diego they would have added 5,200 and not just 1,300 jobs in a 12 month period. We don't really know why that occurred. But even if we assume San Diego's higher minimum wage had an impact two things should be noted: (1) job growth in San Diego as a whole was good, was apparently not negatively affected, and that's the main thing, (2) the reluctance to add jobs may be due to the fact that employers see increased costs while being uncertain about increased revenues from low-wage workers having more income; things will adjust over time as employers figure out the enhanced revenue they will get from increased demand.
Employers are not going to just cut employees if that results in a loss of revenue. They will try to raise menu prices...but that might cause of loss of revenue. The easiest thing is to see if they can become more efficient--cut employee hours that are not essential (e.g, too many employees on a slow shift).
Anyway, you have to wait several years before you can see the full effect in the food industry. Overall, The San Diego example does not show anything...except good things. If overall job growth is good..and wages have gone up...what's to complain about?