California's $20 Fast Food Minimum Wage Law Is Already Having Disastrous Unintended Consequences

Reason ^ | 5.29.2024 | John Stossel

[piytar]

Totally predictable consequences — possibly not unintended.

[brownsfan]

Meh. Regardless of how bad things get, they’ll either move to another state and vote Dem, or if they can’t move, they’ll stay put and vote Dem.

[Lockbox]

Government can mandate all the rules they want on companies, but the cannot mandate rules on customers such as you must buy something from the company…… that’s the problem…….

[Responsibility2nd]

Ahh, but don't forget the Newsom/Panera Bread scandal.

link

[TonyinLA]

The disasterous effects are obvoius and immediate, yet zero discussion to rid the requirement.

“Yes, yes, we know you’re suffering, suck it up, we’re chaning nothing”

[Yo-Yo]

Totally predictable consequences — possibly not unintended.

Well put.

[mewzilla]

Definitely intended.

[Fiji Hill]

I will not be eating at Panera Bread anymore.

[DIRTYSECRET]

*Newsom deceitfully replied, “I’ve heard that rhetoric before. And it didn’t happen!”
Nonsense. It did happen.*

He answered the question. There is no need for an honest answer to these people. By answering he did his job just by making himself available. Followup? They’re above that and they won’t feel the need to say it when the MSM has their back.

You’ll never corner these people. They’re very well trained.

[Responsibility2nd]

I quit Panera Bread when they went Socialist with their failed Honor System.

Too bad they didn't go bankrupt over that.

[mmichaels1970]

Like an Ayn Rand novel. Soon they’ll make it illegal to terminate without cause. They will mandate the number of employees a business must have. They’ll mandate how many hours they must work. Then, when prices go up, they’ll institute price controls. They’ll keep regulating til the buildings are empty smoldering hulks.

Then they’ll get reelected.

[fruser1]

"What's the point of a raise if you don't have a job?"

As always, the true minimum wage is zero.

[mmichaels1970]

but the cannot mandate rules on customers such as you must buy something from the company

Unless it’s insurance. They at least mandate you buy it from some heavily regulated company.

[monkeyshine]

I wonder if you can finance a Tesla Optimus Humanoid robot for less than $200 per day.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The consequences are not “unintended.”

[CIB-173RDABN]

Customers will pay about $200 per year more for their coffee.

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That is if they continue to buy their coffee. A more likely result is that people will buy less (simply because in today’s economy they have less discretionary money).

Giving up the daily Starbuck coffee could translate into having money for a weeks worth of groceries.

[Qwapisking]

progressive leftists NEVER EVER consider the economic realities of socialism before dictating terms to businesses that are affected by the legislations they foist on everyone but their cronys. and even their cronys better backwatch. “economic realities are anathema to the leftist” L.Star

[Lockbox]

Unless it’s insurance. They at least mandate you buy it from some heavily regulated company.

I know friends in Florida who are going naked for their house insurance. Those without a mortgage are not required to have insurance, may be an issue with the rich (liability coverage concerns) but they also have LLC's. Anyway the high cost of home insurance in Florida has driven some to forgo a policy.

And your example of what high regulation does and how companies respond with government mandates such as car or house insurance requirements.

Guess restaurants need to get their politicians to pass mandatory eat at restaurant rules!

[oldtech]

If you vote for Biden & Newson, then you get more of the same old crap.