When labor activists came to D.C. demanding higher wages for restaurant workers, they clashed with an unexpected adversary: restaurant workers.
A few decades ago, waiting tables or bartending in the nation's capital could be quite lucrative. "The money was amazing. At the end of a good bar shift, what some people had to spend an entire week scraping in an office nine to five, I could make that in a night," says Damon Dixon, a restaurant worker of 30 years.
