Judge temporarily blocks California fast food wages law

KION4546 ^ | 12/30

[nickcarraway]

A judge on Friday temporarily blocked the state of California from implementing a landmark new law aimed at raising wages and improving working conditions for fast food workers.

Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Shelleyanne Chang’s order came in response to a lawsuit by restaurant industry groups that are seeking a referendum on the November 2024 ballot in a bid to overturn the law.

The law establishes a 10-member council empowered to set minimum wages as well as standards for hours and working conditions for California’s fast food workers.

[Huskrrrr]

Will the laws also apply to their robot replacements?

[Magnum44]

[Lockbox]

Will the laws also apply to their robot replacements?

No. That would be the newly formed 10-member Robot Fast Food Council, made up of Robots who also just gained the right to vote.......

[kaktuskid]

This will lead to fewer hires at fast food chains. All of them are unveiling smaller restaurants with no indoor seating and drive thru/Doordash lanes only. Back to the original McDonald’s “Golden Arches” design.

[albie]

“robot replacements”

...exactly. Idiots don’t know jack crap about economics. A Big Mac will go up $2.00 along with everything else. Their whopping $15-$20 an hour will be a moot point. IF they still have a job at all. Dumbasses.

[Myrddin]

The fully automated order/pickup in some stores has humans in the kitchen. There is no customer contact with humans. In time, even the food preparation can be mostly automated. Cleaning and restocking of "feed" ingredients will likely remain "human", but the cooking/packaging can be automated as well.

[GaltAdonis]

Does not matter to me.
I don't eat fast food garbage anyway.

I guess that makes me a 'food snob' - because I care about my health.
Oh well. So be it.

I'm diabetic - but eating trash would be a bad idea even if I wasn't.

[central_va]

Their whopping $15-$20 an hour will be a moot point.

LOL!! Whopping? You must be REALLY old....

[Dennis M.]

It makes you a white supremacist.

[traderrob6]

Like “Whopper”?

[Twotone]

So one industry ends up with new overlords, & then another, & then another & pretty soon you can’t run any business with kowtowing to a bunch of leftist loons.

[central_va]

If a fry cook makes $20/hr then hamburgers would cost $20, right? That’s how it works right? So if we went back to slavery and $0.00/hr then hamburgers would be free?

[Seaplaner]

Might in-n-out Burger be the next company find a way to move hq to another state?

[rdcbn1]

McDonalds is about 90% finished with laying systems and infrastructure for the foundation of a highly automated business. They have converted to kiosks and iphone apps for automated ordering and auto pay via card or electronic wallet, low level automation for may operations such as soft drink processing. They have had the robots developed for food processing for quite some time. Covid labor shortages have accelerated the process. Unrealistic minimum wages will further accelerate the process.

[Brown Deer]

If the signature drive doesn’t qualify for a referendum and the law moves forward, fast food wages could be raised as high as $22 an hour by the end of 2023. California’s minimum wage for all workers is set to rise to $15.50 an hour starting Sunday.

$45K starting pay for McDonald's?

I suppose the 99-cent menu will soon be replaced with a $9.99 menu in California.

[dirtymac]

you’re not an economics/accounting expert are you

[central_va]

I get it. If fry cook makes $20/hr then a hamburger will cost $30000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.00? Right?

My point is $20/hr in LA is shit.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

No human interaction. Kiosks, tablets for ordering. Several years ago they announced a hamburger machine, 300 burgers / hour. There are already automated food establishments in San Francisco. Some of them call themselves restaurants, and brag about no staff. There is a pizza place with no visible humans. You can order just a slice, or an entire pizza. You order and pay online or at the tablet. The slice or pizza is eventually
presented for eating without talking to anyone. No one to call in sick, piss off the $customers$ $$$, no one demanding benefits, time off with pay, healthcare, transgender surgery benefits.

[GaltAdonis]

Hey, I already knew that...