mantilla, thank you for your testimony. obviously, the restaurant and hospitality industry is enormously important in louisiana as in other places. do you believe these proposed changes to the overtime threshold would make it harder to attract and train new managers in your restaurants? >> yes, i do. a company like myself and most of the restaurant industry, it's entry-level managers, it's an opportunity that we seek when we're hourly employees. and by increasing that salary level so high, it forces our restaurants to put a lot more people in hourly positions. so we lose the opportunity for people that want to grow to move into salary. that's what we look for. i mean, when i was waiting tables, i wanted to be a manager. it will be demoralizing for my entry-level positions to move them back into hourly positions. that's what we want. and we are in our industry because we have a passion for it, not because we're doing it for the sake of doing it. if you see the growth, especially in new orleans from pre-katrina, the number of

mantilla, thank you for your testimony. obviously, the restaurant and hospitality industry is enormously important in louisiana as in other places. do you believe these proposed changes to the overtime threshold would make it harder to attract and train new managers in your restaurants? >> yes, i do. a company like myself and most of the restaurant industry, it's entry-level managers, it's an opportunity that we seek when we're hourly employees. and by increasing that salary level so high, it forces our restaurants to put a lot more people in hourly positions. so we lose the opportunity for people that want to grow to move into salary. that's what we look for. i mean, when i was waiting tables, i wanted to be a manager. it will be demoralizing for my entry-level positions to move them back into hourly positions. that's what we want. and we are in our industry because we have a passion for it, not because we're doing it for the sake of doing it. if you see the growth, especially in new orleans from pre-katrina, the number of

. >> mantilla is a suburb of havana, home to one of cuba's most celebrated writers. [ speaking spanishs been able to portray the daily struggles, the absurdities of life in cuba. it's a delicate dance, and few have been able to replicate it. your hero in the books, does he live in this neighborhood? or another neighborhood? >> more or less. more or less. >> happy place to grow up, this neighborhood? >> yeah, yeah. i was totally free. >> i notice a lot of people just hanging out. who lives here? >> all kinds of people. doctors, for example. engineers. workers. >> and people who makes nothing, like that guy. >> right. >> he don't make nothing. >> how does he live? >> trying to find something to do or something to sell. making a small business. >> cafeteria a la barbeque is only one example of a booming do-it-yourself service industry. ♪ it's a place where you get a lot of bang for your money. nothing fancy, just delicious. fried pork, plantains. and the kind of silky, deeply satisfying beans that dreams are made of. this is good, good beans. >> yeah. >> you never had a book blacklisted o