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State Restaurants Concerned With Tipping Ballot Question

Many restaurant owners and their staff in the state are concerned about ballot question five. 

 

The question seeks to gradually increase the minimum wage for tipped workers from the current six-dollars and 75-cents until it reaches 15-dollars an hour in 2029. 

 

The national group Our Fair Wage petitioned to get the tipped minimum wage onto the ballot, clearing the threshold by less than 150 votes. 

 

Opponents say the measure would devastate an already struggling restaurant industry in the state.

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