This kind of price gouging cannot be because of minimum wage.
The outrageous price of beef AND $20.00 an hour min. wage in CA. this price doesn’t surprise me at all!! This is precisely why IN & OUT a CA. home based company for DECADES pulled out of Ca. along with enormous work comp. rates, HUGE taxes, astronomical amount of law suits due to a culture of ambulance chaser attorneys everywhere I am surprised that there are ANY businesses left here ANYWHERE!!!
Price gouging? The QSR’s don’t set the minimum wage , beef prices or any other vendor prices, or utilities. Every time prices are increased there is a drop in the customer base and sales, operators have to try and hit a balance of making some profit or losing everything, they don’t gouge they simply try and survive.
Also every time the minimum goes up, everything tied to it goes up in price,so those employees lucky enough not to get terminated end up doing their job and that of the person let go. The other thing that the employee benefitting from the $20 minimum never thinks of is that they also pay higher prices and will get a rude awakening from the tax man.
“This kind of price gouging cannot be because of minimum wage.”
Have you ever run a restaurant?
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