With recent minimum wage increases taking effect in Rhode
Island (minimum wage jumped to $7.40 starting March 1)
and Maryland ($6.15 minimum wage took effect Feb. 16),
now 18 states and Washington, D.C., set higher wage rates
than the federal starting-wage rate of $5.15. Wage-increase
bills are pending in more than 20 other state legislatures,
and activists in a handful of states are pushing to put wage hike
proposals on November ballots, including automatic
annual increases in state minimum wage rates. You can get wage laws by state and track legislation at
www.getgame.biz/Articles/state_minwage.doc.
About Me
- Jeffrey Summers
- I am the expert you call when you need to learn how to increase top line sales, lower your operating costs, increase your profit margin, hire and train better managers and staff, evolve your operation into more and better ways of doing business, buy or sell a restaurant, improve your service, engineer (or re-engineer!) your menu, market your business better and less expensively, keep yourself from going nuts because you have no life anymore, open more and better restaurants, don't want to have to give up your first born child to pay a consultant and have more fun! My mission is to enhance the quality of life for my clients by providing the best products and services to help them achieve their personal and professional goals. I take great pride in my clients, my company, my commitment to service and the products I sell. I am a recognized expert in the hospitality industry with over 24 years of success at planning and executing strategies for delivering dramatic results, a former "GM of the Year" for 2 major, full-service, franchises, an Award winning Multi-Unit Executive with 2 of the largest restaurant chains in the U.S., published author, husband and father of two.