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Good God..!
When I lived in CA, Carl’s Jr. was everywhere.
It was a true California success story.
Now they’ve pulled up roots from the Golden State and left for good.
California is too expensive, too much bureaucracy and too much congestion.
Who needs it?
Outside of nice weather I can’t see a single reason to run a business from California. It’s rapidly progressed from unfriendly business climate to downright hostile and it shows no evidence that trend will be reversed.
On top of that - CALPERS is hanging over the state budget like a massive nuclear bomb. Anyone with half a brain should understand that you can’t have a state retirement system that allows people to retire young and make over 100k a year the rest of their lives. The number of people on welfare and public assistance grows each year. The climate is already bad and it will get much worse because they are losing taxpayers and adding tax consumers. Just my .02.
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Well duh! Toyota left! Who’s next? Even lib tesla is building batteries in Nevada.
Maybe they just moved to get room to breathe?
I amazed that their corporate HQ was in the sleepy little beach town of Carpinteria.
Now if I can just get off my butt and win the lottery, I'd buy AA or better rated CA municipal bonds that are tax free (with AGM/BAM insurance) and retire there without paying ANY income taxes to the state or feds).
Because it's impossible to do business in California.
Pretty soon States like California and New York will make it illegal to move your company out of their state.
Or course this is a illegal as hell, but the libs won;t complain about it...
But hey if a farmer wants to hold back wheat he is affecting interstate commerce, and if a company wants to move to another state I guess they are affectign interstate commerce too....
RIP 10th amendment 1791 - 1942
Nashville has been a good corporate office location for many corporations. Carl’s will probably like it there just fine.
I wonder if the People’s State of California will threaten an exit tax, as they did to golfer Phil Mickelson when he said he was moving from Palm Springs to Arizona, due to taxes.
While TN has a better business environment, Nashville is probably as liberal as anyplace.
To me, Carl’s is a piece of California lore, and a ok burger as well. That said, I would like to take a moment to pitch Springfield MO as welcoming home for In-and-Out Burger should they wake up as Carl Karcher Enterprises did. ;)
California’s collapse is coming. Its so full of hot air politically that’s its demise is inevitable. The signs have been pretty evident of late.
“the CEO of CKE Restaurants, the parent company of the Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s fast-food chains, has been telling the world that while the U.S. government makes life needlessly miserable for businesses, California, where it has been headquartered, is exponentially worse.”
That’s why. Doesn’t take much to figure it out.
It takes 285 days to get a building permit after signing a lease.
This means the chain has to pay rent for over nine months, plus the time needed to build, while not earning any revenues.
Hardee’s was headquartered in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Plenty of former employees still there no doubt. Surprised they didn’t go there.
"I'm the Secretary of State . . . brought to you by Carls, Jr."
It’s intelligent moves like these that will keep Carl’s Jr. going for the next 500 years (see Idiocracy).