Those $30 Big Macs are going to taste fantastic!
Profession?!
Right? The shut down fast food restaurants would be a blessing!
It just shows how fast government is destroying the US currency and how fast inflation is growing
I don’t really feel the need or desire to eat unhealthy garbage fast food all that often, frankly.
Alex Johnson owns 10 Auntie Anne's Pretzels and Cinnabon restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area. He said sales have slowed in 2024, prompting him to lay off his office staff and rely on his parents to help with payroll and human resources.
Increasing his employees' wages will cost Johnson about $470,000 each year. He will have to raise prices anywhere from 5% to 15% at his stores, and is no longer hiring or seeking to open new locations in California, he said.
“I try to do right by my employees. I pay them as much as I can. But this law is really hitting our operations hard,” Johnson said.
“I have to consider selling and even closing my business,” he said. “The profit margin has become too slim when you factor in all the other expenses that are also going up.”
This sure is a surprising and unforeseen circumstance.
It will force McDonald’s to limit the hours in their dining rooms. Maybe from 6 am to 4 pm. After that, drive thru only.
“The $20 raise is great. I wish this would have come sooner,” Vilorio said through a translator.”
Guess she’s not working the cash register
“…more financial security to an historically low-paying profession”
The thousands of laid off workers may disagree about “financial security.”
These writers are such staggering economic illiterates. They only write what the politicians tell them to write.
If you want out of a low-income, dead-end job meant for high school kids, then learn a trade, develop some skills, get a practical education, etc.
In other news, a Big Mac is now 19.99.
$20/hr for fast food workers? To hell with that. I’ll bet Costco pizza and rotisserie chicken prices stay the same. I’d be going there more on TDYs. Pocket more M&IE because that’s going to increase to cover the increased restaurant and fast food prices.
Election times are great fun!
I wish this would have come sooner,” Vilorio said through a translator.
and there it is...
Fast food chains will raise prices nationwide to pay their California employees.
Wow. What a carefully crafted piece of propaganda. The trade association was prepared to back a ballot initiative to repeal the creation of a board created just to regulate fast food workers minimum wages with which $20 would have just been the opening bid. The left is expert at crafting media campaigns to defeat ballot measures they don’t like, such as when the convinced voters a few years ago not to repeal a huge increase in the gas tax.
I hope the guy in the article enjoys his increase, assuming he isnt among the thousands who have already lost his job because of this, or will lose their job as CA is becoming a leader in automation of the industry, or because of decreases in sales when the increased expense is attempted to be passed on to consumers
When one of the minimum wage levels went into effect at the library the fiercely cheap* library head woman refused to accept the payouts.
One 18 year old student assistant was cheerily excited the day the wage was going into effect but then was given a statement that her hours would be immediately be cut down to equal the amount of money she used to make. She was crushed.
*I am convinced she was psychologically disturbed. Some term like parsimonious or miserly. At office parties, despite her quite high administrator income she brought generic brand items and carefully brought home even the condiments and other items so they wouldn’t be out of her grasp.
So $20 minimum for fast food workers.......is that now the state minimum wage or are these workers “special” ?