The fight over hiking the minimum wage is heating up in Delaware.
The Delaware Restaurant Association headlined Carrie Leishman yesterday whose organization represents 2-thousand restaurants in the state.
She called for broadening the battle in the court of public opinion.
The Wilmington News Journal reports that the effort to hike the minimum wage above the current $8.25 an hour has been led by labor unions and Democratic Party leaders.
The paper reports nearly 50-thousand have jobs in the restaurant industry in the First State.
In January the state Senate approved a measure that would bring the state minimum wage up to $10.25 an hour by 2020.
