“P.J. Clarke’s…estimates that [New York’s minimum] wage hikes will cost it $200,000 per restaurant and that its prices will go up nearly 4 percent next year. At one of its locations, the pub will eliminate table-busing positions.”
Co-owner Philip Scotti said that, “We’ll make smaller sections for the servers so that, instead of 16 seats, they’ll have 12 seats…We’ll try it at one restaurant and see how it works.”