Posted on 03/31/2024 1:16:57 PM PDT by Salman
LIVERMORE, Calif. -- Most fast food workers in California will be paid at least $20 an hour beginning Monday when a new law is scheduled to kick in giving more financial security to an historically low-paying profession while threatening to raise prices in a state already known for its high cost of living.
Democrats in the state Legislature passed the law last year in part as an acknowledgement that many of the more than 500,000 people who work in fast food restaurants are not teenagers earning some spending money, but adults working to support their families.
That includes immigrants like Ingrid Vilorio, who said she started working at a McDonald's shortly after arriving in the United States in 2019. Fast food was her full-time job until last year. Now, she works about eight hours per week at a Jack in the Box while working other jobs.
โThe $20 raise is great. I wish this would have come sooner,โ Vilorio said through a translator. โBecause I would not have been looking for so many other jobs in different places.โ
The law was supported by the trade association representing fast food franchise owners. But since it passed, many franchise owners have bemoaned the impact the law is having on them, especially during California's slowing economy.
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Many people will receive a real dose of reality when they encounter the real minimum wage:
$0.00 per hour.
That's one of the negative consequences of our illegal alien centric society.
All the entry level jobs are scooped up by unskilled adults who treat them as career jobs instead of a constant turnover of young workers getting entry level job experience build job skills and work experience. . So our young people become entitled, jobless kids in a society that depends upon unskilled illegal immigrant labors.
Is this April Fools joke??????????????
They’re doing that in Rochester NY but mostly due to counter jumpers.
I just got a large Big Mac meal for 10.67 in Miami Florida. No 20 bucks an hour here.
you have to be mighty stupid to think flipping burgers and dropping fries in hot oil at a fast food place is some kind of a life time career.
then again I ran into someone on reddit who was envious of al bundy because he had a wife, 2 kids, a house and a car on a shoe salesmans salary..
I AM NOT JOKING, THEY ACTUALLY USED AL BUNDY AS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW THINGS WERE BETTER IN THE 80'S. AND THEY WERE WILLING TO DIE ON THAT HILL BECAUSE *MARRIED WITH CHILDREN* WAS A TRUE REFLECTION ON SOCIETY IN THE 80'S!!
WE'RE NOT GONNA MAKE IT, ARE WE...
“...Cause I used to live in Allentown, and they closed the factories down...”
That’s why.
That, or drive-thru only and they gave up on dining rooms.
Anyone know if the following are considered “fast food”? They are among out favorites when we go back home to visit or on business:
Togo’s Sandwiches
Pick Up Stix Asian Fusion
The Sizzler (we going sizzler)
Pretty much any joint that has a “char broiled” burger sign ie. chee burger chee burger pepsi pepsi pepsi greek joints
Islands
Avila’s El Ranchito Mexican Food
Pollo Loco
Thanks!
As always you confirm you are a person of good taste and refinement. You agreed with me.๐
Happy Easter, i love you guys๐
Yes, and here come the robots!
LOL!! Well there are professional cooks....!! LOL
LOL
Times change.
My favorite quote from the movie that I thought about many times while my wife was alive:
Every age is the same. It’s only love that makes any of them bearable.
That is a sweet quote. I’m glad you have it to comfort you.
UNLESS ... you are Panera Bread???
Mickey Ds to begin baking, now?
No kiosks, no stand alone food trucks.
I wonder if the Panera bread owner was being a bit too clever. If he keeps his employees wages lower than other fast food places then Panera bread will be perpetually understaffed, until they raise the wages anyway to be competitive .
She is NOT working the register BECAUSE she doesnโt even speak English the interview was done through a translator!! ENOUGH ALREADY!!!
This also increases the money in taxes taken out of their checks these people are REALLY STUPID!!!
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