Today's local fish wrapper inteviewed a local fast food owner about today's minimum wage increase.

“It’s going to be costly to all retailers,” Ferrell said. “But I don’t disapprove of it. I feel like we need to be as fair as we can with employees …

“If (the cost of business) gets too high, you have to cut back,” he said. “We want to keep everybody we’ve got. But it will affect retailers and how many employees they can afford to keep.”