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Fast food chains find a way around $20 minimum wage: Get rid of the workers
Washington Times ^
| April 24, 2024
Posted on 04/30/2024 5:04:32 AM PDT by Cronos
In response to recent minimum wage increases in California, fast food restaurants across the state are shifting to automation to get rid of wage-earning humans.
The move to making customers place orders at digital kiosks alleviates what owners say is the financial strain of rising labor costs after the minimum wage for the state’s fast food workers increased on April 1 from $16 to $20 per hour.
Harsh Ghai, a Burger King franchise owner who manages 140 outlets along the West Coast, is leading the transition to automation. He plans to introduce digital kiosks across all his restaurants within months — a drastic acceleration from his original timeline of five to 10 years.
...Rather than make less money, restaurant owners are exploring alternative strategies to maintain profitability. Reducing staff numbers appears to be their primary solution for lowering overheads.
“Undoubtedly we will lose some people. There’s no way around it. If we continue to maintain our current menu pricing and absorb higher labor costs, 100% of our restaurants won’t be profitable,” Ghai said. “We can’t raise menu prices because that will hurt traffic and we’ve already seen in the media the backlash from customers having to pay more for burgers because of food price inflation.”
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: minimumwage
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To: chaosagent
61
posted on
04/30/2024 9:11:55 AM PDT
by
Leep
(Leftardism strikes 1 in 5.)
To: SaveFerris; Red Badger
The French are glad to die for love
They delight in fighting duels
But I prefer a man who lives
And gives expensive jewels
A kiss on the hand
May be quite continental
But diamonds are a girl's best friend
A kiss may be grand
But it won't pay the rental
On your humble flat
Or help you at the automat
Men grow cold
As girls grow old
And we all lose our charms in the end
But square-cut or pear-shaped
These rocks don't loose their shape
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
Tiffany's!
Cartier!
Black Starr Frost Gorham!
Talk to me Harry Winston
Tell me all about it
There may come a time
When a lass needs a lawyer
But diamonds are a girl's best friend
There may come a time
When a hard-boiled employer
Thinks you're awful nice
But get that ice or else no dice
He's your guy
When stocks are high
But beware when they start to descend
It's then that those louses
Go back to their spouses
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
I've heard of affairs
That are strictly platonic
But diamonds are a girl's best friend
And I think affairs
That you must keep liaisonic
Are better bets
If little pets get big baguettes
Time rolls on
And youth is gone
And you can't straighten up when you bend
But stiff back
Or stiff knees
You stand straight at Tiffany's
Diamonds
Diamonds
I don't mean rhinestones
But diamonds are a girl's best friend
62
posted on
04/30/2024 1:56:08 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Red Badger
They are everywhere in Japan
63
posted on
04/30/2024 2:04:49 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
To: cnsmom
My first job at 14 was sorting, crating and stacking empty soda returnable bottles.
64
posted on
04/30/2024 2:15:33 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
(Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
To: yuleeyahoo
I’ve heard that
May try it
65
posted on
04/30/2024 3:52:42 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
To: Vaduz
Indeed they are
Hope they enjoy Satan’s Antichrist and the False Prophet
and all that comes with them
66
posted on
04/30/2024 3:54:00 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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