$25 bucks an hour is still pretty low pay

[theking]

..so hope tips are good for these restaurant workers in Manhattan  :

3 employers who hiked worker pay say they're not suffering from staff shortages

A restaurant owner in Manhattan said she raised her starting wage to $25 an hour and is fully staffed. Amanda Cohen, who owns Manhattan restaurant Dirt Candy, used the pandemic to assess how she compensates workers. She told Insider that she raised starting wages to $25 an hour in May after realizing how badly some workers struggled financially during lockdowns.

Since raising wages, "we have not had a single problem with finding staff," Cohen said.

Cohen said she increased her restaurant's prices by around 30% and streamlined its menu to accommodate the new wages, but this hadn't put diners off.

[VillainousHero]

Just hiking the work pay doesn't mean much if you can't keep the good workers.  We all know good workers will leave if they aren't being treated fairly or even given compensation fairly. 

[theking]

Agree, especially in high end places like Manhattan...