Minimum Wage Survey Form -- Summer 1991 Phone No. Restaurant Location Date Interviewer Chain Hello, may I please speak with the manager or assistant manager. My name is , and I am conducting a survey for researchers at Princeton University on the impact of the Minimum Wage. The survey will just take a few minutes for your time, and your answers will be kept strictly confidential. 1. How many full- and part-time workers are employed at your restaurant? a. Full-time: b. Part-time: c. Roughly, how many of your current employees are teenagers? Read aloud: On April 1, 1991 the minimum wage increased from $3.80 to $4.25 per hour. 2. What is the average starting pay rate for nonmanagement employees at your restaurant today? a. Part-time: $ per hour b. Full-time: $ per hour 3. What was the average starting pay rate for nonmanagement employees just before the minimum wage increased last April? a. Part-time: $ per hour b. Full-time: $ per hour 4a. If the answer to 3a. or 3b. is less than $4.25 ask: If a worker was paid $4.00 per hour when the minimum wage was $3.80, did you pay that worker exactly $4.25 after the minimum wage increased, or did you pay that worker more than $4.25 per hour? a. Part-time: Exactly 4.25 How much more than 4.25? b. Full-time: Exactly 4.25 How much more than 4.25? 4b. If a worker was paid $4.50 per hour before the minimum wage increase, did that person get a wage increase after the minimum wage increased last April? Yes No How much? 5. After how many weeks does a new worker typically get his or her first wage increase? 6a. Has the typical length of time until a first wage increase changed since the minimum wage increased? Reduced Constant Increased 6b. Has the typical amount of the first wage increase changed since the minimum wage increased? Reduced Constant Increased 7. The new minimum wage law allows employers to pay a subminimum wage between $3.61 and $4.25 to workers under age 20 if they receive some on-the-job training. Have you taken advantage of this provision in the law and paid any teenage workers a subminimum wage? Yes No 7A. If No, why not? (Note: answers are not mutually exclusive.) a. Did not know about the law. b. Too difficult to apply. c. Not fair to pay workers differently for same work. d. Other: 7B. If No, do you think you could attract qualified teenage workers at a subminimum wage? Yes No 7C. If Yes, approximately how many workers have been paid a subminimum wage, and how much did you pay them? Has additional training been provided to workers getting the subminimum? 8. To your knowledge, has your restaurant ever used the subminimum wage provisions of the minimum wage law? Yes No Don't Know 8a. If yes, why did it stop? 9. To your knowledge, does your restaurant plan to use the subminimum wage in the future? Yes No Don't Know 9a. If yes, why hasn't it used it yet? 10. If the subminimum wage was easier to administer -- for example, if there was no time limit or training requirement -- would your restaurant use it? Yes No Don't Know 11. If the subminimum wage could be paid to all workers, not just teenage workers, do you think your restaurant would use it? Yes No Don't Know The next set of questions concern whether your restaurant has changed fringe benefits or employment policies since the minimum wage increased in April 1991. 12. Does your restaurant offer any fringe benefits, such as free or discounted meals, health insurance, or vacation days? Yes No Don't Know 13. Has your restaurant reduced, increased or not changed fringe benefits since April 1991? Reduced Constant Increased 14. Has your restaurant reduced, increased or not changed the number of nonmanagement workers on a shift since April 1991? Reduced Constant Increased 15. Has your restaurant reduced, increased, or not changed the number of shifts per day since April 1991? Reduced Constant Increased 16. We are also interested in whether your restaurant has altered its hiring practices since last summer. Has the percentage of your employees who are adults decreased, increased, or stayed about the same compared to last summer? Reduced Constant Increased 17. Compared to last summer has your restaurant experienced a decrease, increase, or no change in: Decrease No Change Increase employee absences | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | quits | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | vacancies | | (unfilled positions) | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Next I have a few questions about the price of items at your restaurant. 18. What is the current price of a medium soda at your restaurant? Roughly when did the price of a soda last change? What was the price in January 1991? 19. What is the current price of a hamburger at your restaurant? Roughly when did the price of a hamburger last change? What was the price in January 1991? 20. What is the current price of small french fries at your restaurant? Roughly when did the price of small french fries last change? What was the price in January 1991? 21. Is your restaurant a company-owned unit or a franchised unit? Company Owned Franchised Unit 22. If franchised unit ask: Does the owner of the restaurant ever work in the restaurant? Yes No Don't Know 23. Roughly, how many of your current employees are black? 24. Roughly, how many of your current employees are hispanic?