Posted on 02/29/2024 10:38:01 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Talk about fortuitous! In a strange turn of events, one of Gavin Newsom’s biggest donors hits the jackpot, and when the state-mandated $20 minimum wage for certain fast-food workers takes effect in April, this lucky duck employer won’t be subject to complying with the increase, thanks to an “obscure” exemption in the statute.
Here’s the story, from Fox News yesterday:
A major donor to Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to reap the benefit of an obscure exemption to the state’s new $20 minimum wage regulations for the fast food industry that will allow some of his restaurants to continue paying lower wages.
Here’s how the report from Bloomberg framed the issue:
The governor pushed for a carve-out that’s perplexed industry observers and benefited a donor.
Greg Flynn is a billionaire, one of Newsom’s (and other Democrats’) most loyal and longtime benefactors, and according to Bloomberg, “the largest restaurant franchisee in the US, if not the world.” Flynn’s fast-food portfolio includes establishments like Taco Bell, Wendy’s, and Pizza Hut… but his California fast-food portfolio is limited to one brand: Panera Bread.
And, surprise surprise, the new law’s “obscure exemption” seems only applicable to… Panera Bread. As the Fox report states:
Newsom pushed for the exemption, which allows restaurants baking and selling bread as a standalone item to continue paying the current rate of $16 to its employees. That means billionaire Greg Flynn, a longtime donor to the governor, could save hundreds of thousands of dollars a year per each of his two-dozen Panera Bread franchise locations across California….
Interesting. What happened to all of Newsom’s “fair share” talk?
Flynn and Newsome go way back;
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It sounds like Subway and Texas Roadhouse should be exempt too !
Why can’t Subway just sell the bread they bake? Why can’t Pizza Hut bake pizza plain crust and sell it as bread? Why is only Panera exempted?. I’m sure they are not named as exempted but just exempted by their offering baked bread for sale. So others should make similar offers. Buy a bread maker and offer loafs for sale. Doesn’t say you have to make a sale, just offer for sale.
“What good is it to get elected if you can’t help your friends?”
Plunkett of Tammany Hall
Subway's? Pizza shops? Why is Panera the only one benefitting?
That’s how they got “give us this day our daily bread” into the Lord’s Prayer.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjhqvuLukfM&t=14s
Yeah, this is dirty, but Panera bread employees should just tell management to stuff it and go to the competition for $20. They will get killed with turnover.
“Every fast food chain in the state can simply offer to sell its hamburger buns at the counter.”
Fast food chains don’t bake bread on the premises. They have their buns delivered to them from somewhere else.
https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2023.01039
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He IS her nephew, of course they are in the same crime family.
The heck with baking and selling bread, invest in automation and fire 25% of the employees. Explain to them very clearly why they are being fired.
Their new minimum wage will be $0.00.
EC
Wow. The rat party never ceases to amaze me.
At another site it was said that for an exemption, your restaurant/fast food joint had to be selling bread prior to 2023.
GP did...
We make tiny loaves of bread which we cut in half and apply hamburgers.
I did just yesterday!! here near the Motor City... Wendy’s double, small with a coke... $12.87 I will not go back!!
May be??? ROFLOL!!!
“”What happened to all of Newsom’s “fair share” talk?””
Decades ago I remember reading about the Kennedy Klan. Like most modern democRATS, the Kennedys railed against the ‘rich’ while hoarding all the money they could. The Kennedys kept much of their wealth in tax-free municipal bonds.
Subway and pizza shops don’t sell their bread as standalone items but they certainly could start.
I’ve cut way back on eating lunch M-F, it’s too expensive.
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