How Restaurants Are Adapting to the Rising Minimum Wage

As the minimum wage increases across the U.S., restaurants are scrambling to try and adapt to the new normal. TouchBistro, an iPad-based point-of-sale system that services the restaurant industry, commissioned a research report on the rising minimum wage in order to better understand the new challenges the industry was facing, especially among independent operators. The report surveyed 100 restaurant owners and 100 restaurant workers in 18 states across the U.S. that logged a rise in the minimum wage in January 2018. The majority of the restaurants surveyed were full-service operations and employed no more than 25 people. On the staff side, the majority of the workers surveyed were female and reported annual earnings of $45,000 or l