The restaurant industry has gone on a hiring spree over the last four months, suggesting that broader gains in the job market could be on the way.

Since the beginning of August, the restaurant industry, which includes everything from McDonald's to corner bars to four-star restaurants, has accounted for 18 percent of the 300,000 new jobs created in the nation.

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Restaurant companies are loath to disclose what they pay because of competition. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, wages of hourly restaurant workers rose in October to about $7.74 an hour, or 1.6 percent, from the month a year earlier.

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Oh, yeah... these really make up for the millions of manufacturing jobs that went to Mexico and then China, and the whit collar jobs gone to India, the Phillippines, Eastern Europe, etc.