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California fast food workers stunned as restaurant closes without warning over $20 minimum wage: ‘Only the beginning’
New York Post ^ | April 4, 2024 | Kristen Altus

Posted on 04/05/2024 5:19:47 AM PDT by george76

Another California small business and its workers have seemingly suffered at the hands of the state’s newly enacted $20 minimum wage.

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When making their way to work Monday morning, Navarro and her team learned upon arrival that the restaurant owner had made the decision to close its doors for good.

The owner, Loren Wright, told local Fox affiliate KMPH that this was the “last thing” they wanted to do, but knew by Friday night the business likely wouldn’t be able to absorb the wage hike and didn’t “want to ruin their Easter Sunday.”

The new California statewide legislation went into effect Monday and enforces a $20 minimum wage for restaurants that have at least 60 locations nationwide, except those that make and sell their own bread.

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“I can see their intentions with increasing the minimum wage, thinking that it will attract more people,” the ex-manager added, “but I honestly don’t think it will work. This is not the first business that’s closing. There’s already a few local businesses for me that are closing, so I feel like this is just only the beginning.”

Speaking on behalf of the now unemployed Fosters Freeze team, Navarro claimed they would have preferred working at a lower hourly rate than being laid off.

“From the people that I spoke to, my employees, we would have rather stayed at the wage that we did have before, just because now we don’t have a job,” Navarro said. “And those who are still working in the areas around us that went up to $20 an hour, they got their hours severely cut. And it’s a lot less people working on shifts. So their jobs got a lot more difficult.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: business; california; lemoore; minimumwage; smallbusiness
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To: Carl Vehse

If you, as the owner, can close up and walk away what do I assume? What, Is he is homeless now?


81 posted on 04/05/2024 6:45:28 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Pollard

RumpJack?


82 posted on 04/05/2024 6:46:20 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: BobL

If there is demand for the product he was selling SOMEONE will make will supply it.


83 posted on 04/05/2024 6:46:22 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

“So the demand for fast food goes away too?”

It’s reduced, of course. Thousands of people (if not millions) will now have to learn to cook at home.


84 posted on 04/05/2024 6:46:25 AM PDT by BobL (A society built on MERIT cannot survive on DEI (ref. South Africa, and now USA))
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To: Ikeon

Yep. All 3 of ‘em.


85 posted on 04/05/2024 6:48:00 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: DownInFlames

Based on most of these post, the Republican party sure is the worker party now. /sarc.


86 posted on 04/05/2024 6:48:18 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: george76

The issue is that this particular business didn’t appear to have 60 locations nationwide. So why did they have to raise wages to operate or close?


87 posted on 04/05/2024 6:48:20 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (A horrible historic indictment: Biden Democrats plunging thmige world into war to hide their crimes!)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

“They’re treating minimum wage as though it’s something you can sustain a family on.”

They’re not, that’s their cover. What they REALLY WANT is for ‘fast food’ to be SHUT DOWN, once and for all.

Never forget, Leftists are FAR SMARTER than our side and that is shown by the incredible power they now wield (to the point of being able to cut the dicks off of little boys), with barely any pushback.


88 posted on 04/05/2024 6:48:25 AM PDT by BobL (A society built on MERIT cannot survive on DEI (ref. South Africa, and now USA))
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To: COBOL2Java

“The laws of economics. Gobsmacking liberals - what a surprise!”

Surprise for their voting base, absolutely NO SURPRISE for their leaders.


89 posted on 04/05/2024 6:49:14 AM PDT by BobL (A society built on MERIT cannot survive on DEI (ref. South Africa, and now USA))
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To: BobL

Hmm, no. What happens is this. There are 4 burger joints in the area. Now one closes ( because the owner has a paid off boat, a lake house and and a mistress), the other 3 joints get more business and can “afford” the new min wage. Just like the could “afford” the higher prices for almost EVRYTHING.


90 posted on 04/05/2024 6:51:23 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Gen.Blather

“The reason we have Democrats is the left side of that (Bell) curve. When those people vote they don’t think through what the outcomes of their vote might be.”

That is CORRECT. The voters are clueless, just like the union workers that organize themselves out of their careers. But in both cases, the leaders on the Left know EXACTLY what they are doing and they are getting EXACTLY the outcome they intended.


91 posted on 04/05/2024 6:51:55 AM PDT by BobL (A society built on MERIT cannot survive on DEI (ref. South Africa, and now USA))
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To: central_va

That’s vague.


92 posted on 04/05/2024 6:52:08 AM PDT by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: DoodleBob

That didn’t address minimum wage but interstate regulation.


93 posted on 04/05/2024 6:53:04 AM PDT by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: DoodleBob

It should be noted that by 1938 FDR had replaced most of the Supreme Court as they were impeding his power grab during the Great Depression.


94 posted on 04/05/2024 6:54:14 AM PDT by BobL (A society built on MERIT cannot survive on DEI (ref. South Africa, and now USA))
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To: CodeToad

the Supreme Court took up the issue of labor legislation again in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish (1937) and upheld the constitutionality of minimum wage legislation enacted by Washington state and overturned the Adkins decision which marked the end of the Lochner era.[43] In 1938, the minimum wage was re-established pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act, this time at a uniform rate of 25¢ per hour (equivalent to $5.41 in 2023). The Supreme Court upheld the Fair Labor Standards Act in United States v. Darby Lumber Co. (1941), holding that Congress had the power under the Commerce Clause to regulate employment conditions.[44]


95 posted on 04/05/2024 6:55:32 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: COBOL2Java

Actions have consequences. Something vociferously denied by frothing-at-the-mouth nutjob liberals. When they bother to think about it at all.


96 posted on 04/05/2024 6:56:25 AM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: scouter

“It’s not the employees who were stupid. It’s the politicians and their voters.”

They REALLY have you drinking the Koolaid. The Democrat politicians know EXACTLY what they are doing and they are EXACTLY getting the intended outcome. They have HATED Fast Food for as long as I can remember and now they have a way to shut it all down, without losing enough voters to politically damage them.

It is a DREAM COME TRUE for the Leftists, and there never going to let this one get past them.


97 posted on 04/05/2024 6:57:48 AM PDT by BobL (A society built on MERIT cannot survive on DEI (ref. South Africa, and now USA))
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To: JayGalt

Let’s test you econ IQ. True or false: If min wage goes up $2/hr then the cost of food goes up $2/order.


98 posted on 04/05/2024 6:57:55 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: kaktuskid

or Bumpjack. Probably a hot spot for gays


99 posted on 04/05/2024 6:59:10 AM PDT by Pollard ( Seed Room Wx: 67 degrees - 44% humidity)
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To: thinden

“maybe they can find a job at one of newscum’s restaurants?”

Maybe they can. There was a news article yesterday that reported Newsom’s restaurants are paying only $15/hr. in spite of everyone else having to pay $20.


100 posted on 04/05/2024 6:59:30 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Navarro didn't kill himself.)
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