Webmcdonald's said it will increase its minimum wage by $1 above the locally mandated minimum wage in 1,500 stores, starting july 1. That's expected to lift the. Webpublished apr 05, 2021 at 6:00 am edt. By julia rock and andrew perez, the daily poster. Big restaurant chains are telling investors that a national minimum wage hike. Weba princeton economist looked at the impacts of wage increases over five years at u. s. President joe biden and democratic lawmakers are making a push to.