here in New York, it's $8.75 if their work is non-essential. Skilled labor like cooking usually starts at $11 and goes up if they stay at the job longer. It's not worth the problems to try to pay anyone under the minimum wage or cheat them out of overtime pay.
If you've ever worked in the restaurant industry... Chinese workersin the kitchen of a Chinese restaurant... Does not compute.
It does not matter if it's a Indian, Chinese, American, Italian, Etc. There will be Hispanics in the back cooking.