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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And in Southern California, the owners of Italian restaurants are often from the Middle-or Far East.
Five Guys has the best burger near us, $25 for coke fries and burger. I can get a $15 bottle of French wine and Nolan Ryan filet mignon for that price.
Deceitful article so must be all lies:
23k jobs lost vs 0.8% nationally. Why don’t they use the same units?
Because that would be honest.
Translation: higher wages is working so we have to lie about it.
For simple tasks, ChatGPT or grok3 can knock out much of the code. The extra effort that AI can't do right isn't likely to be resolved by a wet behind the ears coder.
Many years ago, there was a big political push for a national minimum wage of $15/hr. The grocery stores, Walmart, and others put in several automated check-out lanes because they thought the law would go through. Employees were very active in training customers how to self-check.
$15/hr never materialized. The automated lanes remain but the urgency in training the public in their use is now gone.
It’s not just economic theory, it’s common sense. Use your noggin. If something costs more, you will buy less. That applies to businesses as well as to final consumers. So, if a union or the government forces companies to pay more for help, less help will be employed.
There is a way to raise wages without unions or government. Increase productivity. That’s not a magic quick fix, but it is a real fix. It explains why we are generally more affluent than our parents and our grandparents.
Is this sarcasm or are you really this foolish?
So glad to be outta there!!
Fast food is rapidly getting to be more expensive than eating at an actual restaurant.
Tell them to learn to code.
Which state?
There is a place in my town called Val’s burgers. Been there since the 60s I think.
Bacon cheeseburger fries and a soda for about 10 bucks. Puts five guys to shame for less than half the price. Find the local guy, they are almost always better than the corporate chains
With labor costs mandated by the government to outrageous levels the restaurant owners have to raise their prices and when the prices get too high, consumers decide to eat at home.
This is apparently too hard for Democrats to understand.
I’d say “Italian” restaurants in California are staffed by 95% non-Italians.
Very few people who own a Fast food franchise can afford that kind of lifestyle. Maybe if you own a whole string but most own one or two.
Fantasy, look at the business profit margins before and after, not everyone starts out as Shaq at papas
I have never created a job for anyone in my life (other than paying for goods and services), and I am very grateful for those who have.
Not that guy, though.
He thinks anybody dumb enough to create a job for another human being is "rich" and deserves to be punished.
I know of three people that own or owned restaurants. All were successful, but none owned “two yachts, a vacation home, etc....” The hours you put in to operate a restaurant is very very long. As someone said, “you get rich working at minimum wage.” One guy who owns successful hot dog stands told me that he now works fifty hours a week and he considers himself to be semi-retired.
Here in California I applaud anyone that has an employee. The ridiculous amount of crap,laws,paperwork, extra costs like insurance and MONEY to be an “employer” is equal to the salary you are paying said employee. I am retiring by the end of summer.
“New study says California’s fast-food restaurants are shedding jobs”
California is shedding people so the above is a given.
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