They're talking about raising the pay rate to around $35K a year for these folks, which is roughly comparable to what cops start out at around my neck of the woods.

With the economy slowing, a lot of people will want those $35K a year paychecks, so what you will have is far more intelligent and competent people applying for these jobs.

The $7 an hour idiots who get rejected by Starbucks won't be around for very long because they simply won't be able to compete with the people applying for these jobs now.

I would expect the same kind of standards that are required for cops to be imposed on these folks. That pretty much means all the Argen-not-bright people will be gone.