Posted on 04/07/2025 1:50:17 PM PDT by BenLurkin
New research published by Pepperdine University is attempting to settle the debate over whether boosting the minimum wage for fast-food workers in California to $20 an hour has cost jobs.
The study, released on April 1 to coincide with the one-year anniversary of AB 1228, cites recent data from the California Employment Development Department, showing a “significant” decline of over 23,100 jobs. At the same time, fast-food employment grew by 0.8% nationwide, researchers said.
The other outcome is that customers are paying more for their burgers, chicken strips, French fries and tacos than before. Many fast-food chains began raising prices when AB 1228 was signed into law and continued to do so after it took effect.
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There is an Italian restaurant in my college town that has been around for years. They are closed half the time because they can’t get any help. Yesterday we tried to go there but they were going to close in fifteen minutes.
I don’t think they’ll be around much longer.
Stands to reason but l just did a search for fast food jobs in Sacramento (about 30 south) on indeed.com and it came up with 1,000+ openings.
30 south = 30 miles south
The typical owner, that has two yachts, a vacation home and and Lexus can’t afford to pay someone enough to work for him....
Because it is a Chamber Of Commerce propaganda hit piece.
So how many people does your business provide a "living wage" for?
I hit a nerve.
I notice you didn’t answer the question.
It is none of your f'g bidness.
Who coulda seen that coming?
/s
Maybe Republican MAGAs are afraid they’ll be embarrassed and probably beat up by a rabid mob of friggin’ Kamala/Walz losers if they go into one of those joints in California. I’ve never heard of commie libs being beaten up and thrown out of restaurants in Texas. Weird how one state is America and one is a third world pig sty of death.
(Other than the 99% of FReepers who DID predict it.)
Captain Obvious won’t even bother to put his official hat on to respond to that headline . Everyone who’s paying attention knows as soon as entry level wages were ordered to increase, restaurants began shedding entry level jobs.
Gov Gavin Newsom points to a sign saying “$20. an hour wages plus bonus for keeping your appointment to fill out a job application!” and says “I did that!”
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Tell them to learn to code.
And I guess California denizens who thought you could just tell people to pay them more, are surprised?
We’re gonna need these people. You know who I’m talking about.
Michael Savage: “I don’t like the Italian restaurants in SF because the cooks are from Guatemala”.
A1 will get rid of them. The answer is the Brassero program.
None of the independent restaurant owners that I know of live in such luxury. The restaurant business is tough sledding, especially in California. Four of my favorite restaurants closed in recent years because the younger members of the families that owned them wanted to move on to something more lucrative than the restaurant business.
There was a note on the door of a popular Italian sandwich shop that closed which blamed the failure of the business on California's anti-business climate. A fast-food chain now owns the building.
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