Is There a Reason to Increase the Minimum Wage?

i can see a very reasonable argument for providing some tax credits, some assistance to small restaurants and hospitality sector. i think there's a reasonable argument to stretch out the phasingp t to make sure that there's not very large increases while the economy's recovering from the pandemic. In new york city, which has raised the minimum wage, and its affected restaurants, you hear this very complicated complaining game where people complain that restaurant workers are underpaid. And then they raise the prices and then the customers stop going there, and the restaurant goes out of business,. Everybody's left to blame everybody else....