By Marine Glisovic
KATV ABC 7, Little Rock, September 25, 2018
If approved by Arkansas voters, minimum wage earners could see another $2.50 an hour by 2021. A group hoping to increase the minimum wage kicked off an awareness campaign on Tuesday. While Arkansans For a Fair Wage hopes to educate voters, Issue 5 remains in legal limbo after a lawsuit was filed to remove the question from the November ballot. ... During Tuesday’s press conference, several supporters voiced their reasons as to why Arkansans should approve increasing the minimum wage to $11 an hour. ...
Speakers included Capi Peck, the owner of Trio’s restaurant in Little Rock, who’s already ahead of the curve.
"It's been successful for me to pay my staff more than minimum wage because I feel like that that makes them more loyal and more productive, happier and healthier if they don't have to work two or three jobs to put food on the table,” said Peck. ... she said she knows a thing or two about business after 32 years of Trio's going strong.
"You can adjust the business model, I can charge more to make things work and it certainly hasn't hurt my business because my business is striving and I’m very successful," she added.
A recent Talk Business and Politics poll showed 60 percent of Arkansans support increasing the state's minimum wage.
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