Local Business Owners React To New Minimum Wage

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Millions of California works will ring in the New Year with a raise.
Minimum wage is now $10.50 and over the next five years will incrementally go up to $15.00 by 2022.
J.R.’s Texas Bar-B-Que has been a staple in Sacramento now for 30 years.
“It really doesn’t have anything to do with the cost it’s, are you consistent?” said the owner, Floyd Rothenberger Jr. also known as J.R..
Through inflation he manages to keep costs down by hiring the