Senate Bill 15 was already listed on the full Senate agenda for Thursday before the hearing took place.
Talk of raising minimum wage worries restaurants still reeling from COVID-19
Restaurateurs are listening with great alarm to state and national talk about raising minimum wage to $15 an hour. Carl Georigi, CEO of the Platinum Dining Group, says that raising minimum wage from $9.25 an hour to $11 by next year — the first hike a state bill proposes on the way to $15 by 2026 — would …