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.
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?
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.
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.
So glad to be outta there!!
Tell them to learn to code.
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.
“New study says California’s fast-food restaurants are shedding jobs”
California is shedding people so the above is a given.
Not only are they shedding jobs but California is now in a Hantavirus pandemic. Panic people ... the real rats are going to get you if the politicians don’t get you first.
Gen Z= instant gradification.
They haven’t the drive to
better themselve’s via “climbing
the ladder”
Most young today would scoff at the
jobs I’ve held in my 70 years
of working.
Retired now, and zero debt.