[Libloather]

Let's go Brandon.

[dynachrome]

“We’ll just loot them for our burgers.”

~Dindu Nuffin

[jeffc]

The price of things do not matter to the rich.

[ComputerGuy]

If you want a cheap burger, go to Panera.

[Salman]

Next up: "Excess profits" tax and price controls.

Just watch. It's already being discussed.

[FlingWingFlyer]

If it’s going to cost that much to eat at those places, they need to give you a basket of those Texas Roadhouse rolls to eat while your waiting for your order. With all the foreign invaders running around unmonitored in this former “country” (it’s a “refugee camp” now), they’re going to need a “drive-thru” just to make reservations to eat there.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I recently saw an old movie DIVORCE:AMERICAN STYLE(1967) in which Dick van Dyke goes into a McDonalds and places an order.
He receives..”A double meat cheeseburger, fries and a coke. That will be 57 cents please.”

[Fiji Hill]

Not long ago, there was a labor shortage in the restaurant industry out here, and just about every eatery had a “help wanted” sign. You don’t see many of those today, and soon they will all vanish.

[joshua c]

the order kiosk salesmen are doing really well

and the fast food workers can learn to code

its all ggod

[Jim W N]

Minimum Wage:

Leftist gov't wage and price command and control: forced higher costs means forced higher prices and less business outlets - lower demand from less affordability and lower supply from less profitability.

That's how the gov't command and control empties the shelves on the Road to Serfdom (Hayek).

Rots a Ruck.

[bray]

Ain’t Communism Wonderful.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Can’t be. Some Keynesian Economist was on X saying that higher wages aren’t inflationary and wouldn’t result in higher prices…

[Clutch Martin]

Close ‘em all down, rent or sell the properties. Will California care? Maybe. Will it bring mindfulness to the polls? Hmmm dunno... but it’s worth a roll of the dice.

[circlecity]

Price increases are phased in incrementally. They will continue to increase.

[Bon of Babble]

In my local paper (So Cal) a Jack-in-the-Box franchisee owner was shown showing off his new automatic french fry maker and said he was going to install AI for the drive-thru ASAP. Mechanization has now become cost effective (also the machines don't call in sick, come in late to work, arrive drunk or hung over, etc.).

Other franchise owners are being forced to close - Foster Freeze in Leemore ,CA. The workers found out as they were on their way in to work - they said they'd rather keep lower pay than be out of a job.

I'd ask who they voted for (Gavin Newsom, most likely):

[cuban leaf]

Duh.

[cuban leaf]

Seriously, the last time I bought a whopper it was 99 cents.

[lurk]

And then the collectivists enact mandatory price controls. A burger cannot cost more than $7.

[cuban leaf]

The interesting thing about wage increases at restaurants is that it doesn’t affect the cost of food at all. It only affects the cost of restaurant food. It means people will just eat less at restaurants.

My wife and I stopped doing that with any regularity over a decade ago. We still eat out - but VERY rarely. Frankly, my wife’s cooking is better than most of the restaurants near me, except for stuff like sushi.

[Rummyfan]

Inevitable.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The sad part of this is that if Cauliphonya had raised their minimum wage before the dildo moved into the White Hut, the taxpayers wouldn’t have had to pay for the college kid deadbeats to get a diploma and an “I Went to College” sweatshirt.