CBS Baltimore, Feb 15, 2014
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Meghan McCorkell reporting
... Charmington’s in Charles Village has been brewing up business for more than three years. Since the beginning, owner Amanda Rothschild has paid employees above the state minimum wage.
“We actually lowered our costs by paying them more and having employees want to stay for a year or two years,” she said.
Now she’s speaking out in favor of a new bill in the General Assembly that would raise the minimum wage in Maryland from $7.25 an hour to $10.10 by 2016. ...
[T]he formula has worked at Charmington’s. The cafe is now expanding.
“We need the seating,” she said. ...