Posted on 04/06/2024 6:40:55 AM PDT by Libloather
Prices for burgers, fries and other fast food items have increased at various restaurant chains across California, according to a recent report.
A New York Post investigation revealed that some fast food chains in the Los Angeles area raised prices on April 1, after new California statewide legislation went into effect Monday enforcing a $20 minimum wage for restaurants that have at least 60 locations nationwide, except those that make and sell their own bread.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the legislation, AB 1228, into law in September. In addition to the pay raises, it also establishes a "Fast Food Council," including representatives for both workers and employers, that can approve further pay increases and set standards for working conditions.
"The biggest leap was at a Burger King, where a Texas Double Whopper meal cost $15.09 on March 29 but surged to $16.89 on April 1, a whopping increase of $1.80 (nearly 12%) for the same meal," the Post reported.
"The Big Fish meal also jumped from $7.49 on the menu before April 1 to $11.49 after — an increase of $4 (53%)," the report continued. "Most other items increased anywhere from 25 cents to a dollar."
Hart House and In-N-Out Burger also saw price increases at certain locations.
However, the Post found that prices at Chick-fil-A, Wendy’s and McDonald’s did not rise, despite one McDonald's franchisee telling CNNBusiness that his restaurant has been affected by the minimum wage increase.
"As a business owner, when you’re dealing with this kind of extraordinary overnight change, you know, a 25% increase in wages,… (no) stone has to remain unturned," McDonald's franchise owner Scott Rodrick said. "And so we have looked at price, although I can’t charge $20 for a Happy Meal. My customers’ appetite to absorb menu board prices is not unlimited."
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I probably could have been more clear. What I mean is it only affects the price of food you buy at restaurants. Since that’s where the increase in the cost of doing business will be passed on to the customer. And if they jack up the wages of people who work in grocery stores and the wages of truck drivers that deliver to the stores then food at grocery stores will go up as well.
But in the short run, jacking up the wages of restaurant workers will only affect the prices of things you buy at restaurants.
We had our Iranian problem also.
Nonetheless, the stupid people out there will never understand.
I have never eaten at Jimmy John’s.
But with a bit of help from You Tube, I figured out how to make a BBQ Ranch Chicken Crunch Wrap.
It’s quite delicious.
Last time I bought chicken, it was chicken tenders at 2.29 lb.
No way I put a dollar’s worth of chicken in the wrap.
There is not a total of two dollars worth of ingredients in the entire wrap.
American ingenuity may have been reduced to copycatting recipes, but it at least it still exists.
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