D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Initiative 82 needs to be repealed because restaurant and bar owners say the higher wages for servers and bartenders are costing them business.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said a voter-approved measure known as Initiative 82 needs to be repealed because restaurant and bar owners say the higher wages for servers and bartenders are costing them business.
But a longtime bartender said he and others in the hospitality industry may think about a new career if the popular law is repealed.
Max Hawla, a bartender at the Grand Duchess in Adams Morgan, has been in the industry for over a decade, loves his job and the interaction with people. He said Initiative 82 has brought him and others in the hospitality industry some financial security.
“I am definitely more…
