Lois Sietman opened Nostalgia House Bakery four years ago on Bay Street in Port Orchard, but as a small business owner, she isn’t ‘rolling in the dough’ and fears the new minimum wage increase will make it tough to stay open.
“It’s tough enough to be a small business in this world right now but to have that kind of increase in wages is tremendous,” said Sietman. She’s now cutting back hours and asking more of her staff. She also may close her shop an hour earlier each day.