Philadelphia Restaurant Group The Marquis & Co. Commits to $15 Minimum Wage | Eater Philly

"Owned by the Marquis & Co. restaurant group, HipCityVeg is a vegan restaurant brand (the chain includes two D.C. locations) that will be covered by a group-wide $15 minimum wage taking effect in July; the move guarantees both hourly and tipped workers across the group's nine restaurants at least $15 an hour, although in D.C. servers already earn that. Nicole Marquis says the increase will affect 75 percent of the Philadelphia workforce and is aimed at recruiting and retaining staff amid pandemic-era labor shortages and multiple rounds of layoffs, noting that positions like food runners, bussers, and barbacks may previously have made less than $15. Marquis—who co-founded the Save Philly Restaurants coalition and organized testing and vaccination clinics for restaurant workers—expects higher menu prices to help offset the short-term cost while reducing turnover in the long run, and says the wage helped her recruit someone back from Amazon." - Dayna Evans