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$17 for a Burger King Whopper Meal in California.
Ian Jaeger on X ^ | August 30, 2025 | Ian Jaeger

Posted on 09/01/2025 4:22:18 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man

Ian Jaeger @IanJaeger29

$17 for a Burger King Whopper Meal in California.

This is what happens when you make the minimum wage $20, Gavin Newsom.

From Wall Street Apes

7:26 PM · Aug 30, 2025

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Local News; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: burgerking; california; economy; frenchlaundry; minimumwage; newscum; newsom; outrageousprices; sanfrancisco; sanfransicko; whoppermeal

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This is nuts. A whopper meal is $9.99 where I live which is still nuts.
1 posted on 09/01/2025 4:22:18 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
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To: Macho MAGA Man

My son was in California recently doing some work. Taco Bell was $60 for 3 people.


2 posted on 09/01/2025 4:28:42 PM PDT by Clay Moore (My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch. )
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Note how Burger King has to display up pictures of the burgers, with the number of patties, for the illiterate.

Anything to drive sales ...


3 posted on 09/01/2025 4:32:34 PM PDT by JeemBeau
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Of course, the madness of California. Said years ago raising the minimum wage was going to cause everything to go up.

We’re having Schlotzsky’s now. 10 homemade originals using a copycat recipe with their sourdough bun and garlic spread recipes for what 1 costs at the window. Have been making them for 20 years so have saved a ton.


4 posted on 09/01/2025 4:33:49 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Clay Moore

Hey when the minimum wage is $20 an hour or whatever it is now in the not so golden state that’s what you get in prices.


5 posted on 09/01/2025 4:33:53 PM PDT by xp38
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To: JeemBeau

Yep!


6 posted on 09/01/2025 4:34:09 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Eat. At. Home!

Jeez...


7 posted on 09/01/2025 4:36:38 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: JeemBeau

Wendy’s started that.

Dave realized doubles weren’t selling like singles. Pictures weren’t helping so he came up with the triple. Almost by default doubles sales climbed.


8 posted on 09/01/2025 4:37:32 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Macho MAGA Man
Exactly... I was looking at the $9.99 add and at first thinking.. That's awesome... Then I thought... $9.99 for a burger, some fries and a watered-downed pop?

That's crazier than a chocolate whopper.


9 posted on 09/01/2025 4:37:50 PM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: xp38

This kind of price gouging cannot be because of minimum wage.


10 posted on 09/01/2025 4:41:38 PM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

And have you noticed the fast-food workers seem to just slap things together these days and not care a wit about the food quality? I got two overpriced tacos with hardly anything in them recently. They were literally just 3/4s empty shells with hardly any lettuce and a tiny speck of cheese. It was a FF place called Baker’s here in SoCal that I’ll never ever go to again.


11 posted on 09/01/2025 4:42:31 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's ok---- I wasn't married to it.)
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To: xp38

The legislature and our idiot governor hair gel want to increase the min wage up to $30 an hour here now. I kid you not.

The “living wage” BS again.


12 posted on 09/01/2025 4:45:45 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's ok---- I wasn't married to it.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Not that it changes anything about Newscum but that looks like an airport Burger King.


13 posted on 09/01/2025 4:53:14 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: mikey_hates_everything

It’s not an airport.


14 posted on 09/01/2025 4:54:34 PM PDT by Kleon
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To: Macho MAGA Man

I see there are six
BKs in San Francisco. Two are downtown and the video doesn’t say which of the six it is. It’s true that the minimum wage increase has jacked up the price of fast food in CA, but particularly if the location was one of the downtown ones, this is to be expected. Eating is extremely expensive in SF, particularly downtown and in the tourist areas along the waterfront


15 posted on 09/01/2025 4:55:50 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Bullish

If he keeps raising the min. wage, his governor’s pay might not be enough. Never mind it causes the dollar to shrink so any savings he has will plummet.


16 posted on 09/01/2025 4:59:52 PM PDT by bgill
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To: j.havenfarm

I know the one on Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco. It is the BK of choice for the homeless bums that stay in the alley nearby.


17 posted on 09/01/2025 5:02:04 PM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: Macho MAGA Man

A meal of 9 oz baked salmon with broccoli spears, house salad and freshly made bread is $27 in Florida including tax. I tip $5.


18 posted on 09/01/2025 5:12:09 PM PDT by Bobbyvotes (Term limits will get rid of corrupt politicians faster than delivery of Jimmy Johns sandwich)
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To: Clay Moore

What else would you expect when the dhimmicraps run amok in government?
California gets the government it elects.


19 posted on 09/01/2025 5:12:56 PM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Let ‘em go broke


20 posted on 09/01/2025 5:13:23 PM PDT by bigbob (If thou doth eff around, thou wilt findeth out)
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