The Brief
- Another popular restaurant in D.C. is closing down, saying they’ve struggled under D.C.’s Initiative 82.
- The legislation raised the minimum wage for tipped workers from just over $5 an hour to currently $10 an hour.
- Despite being passed overwhelmingly by D.C. residents, Initiative 82 has been cited by several popular restaurants recently as a factor in their closures.
WASHINGTON – Another popular D.C. restaurant just announced its closing, blaming a controversial ballot initiative as one of the reasons.
Haikan will have it’s last day on Saturday after a decade on V St. in the Shaw neighborhood.
The owners told FOX 5 they had no comment beyond the statement posted to their social media, which reads in part, “after almost 10 years in Shaw, we’ve made the difficult decision to close our beloved Haikan. The challenges of food costs, Initiative 82 and the economic climate in the city brought us to this decision.”…