I repeat: WHO COULD POSSIBLY HAVE FORESEEN…
California’s new $20-an-hour fast food minimum wage law poses headaches for school districts: ‘Harder to hire’
California’s new $20-an-hour minimum wage for fast food workers won’t just impact consumers who have to pay higher prices for menu items, but it could also make it more difficult for some public schools to retain low-paid cafeteria staffers.Cash-strapped school districts in the Golden State could be forced to compete with billion-dollar corporations such as McDonald’s, Wendy’s and Pizza Hut parent company Yum! Brands for food service workers who are badly needed in California.
The state – which became the first in the country to guarantee free meals for all students regardless of income – will distribute 70 million more meals this year compared to 2018, according to education officials in Sacramento.
Actually, the lunch-line-ladies angle I hadn’t consider myself before—but then, I ain’t the one in charge of decreeing absurd minimum-wage hikes for low-to-no-skill-required jobs, either. Meanwhile, in another part of the forest:
Mod Pizza closes 5 California locations as $20-an-hour minimum wage law takes effect
A popular West Coast pizza chain shuttered five of its California locations shortly before the state enacted its new minimum wage law this month that raises fast-food workers’ pay from $16 an hour to $20.Mod Pizza — which has 500 locations across the US and Canada and has been dubbed “the Chipotle of pizza” — abruptly closed up shop at its location in Clovis, near Fresno, two weeks ago, according to former employees.
“It just kind of seemed like the right timing, two weeks before all of the fast food locations in California got that increase that we closed,” one fired worker, who was among 15 that were let go, told Fox 26 TV on Tuesday.
The law, which went into effect on April 1, has been blamed for ballooning menu prices at major fast-food chains like Burger King, as The Post reported.
The ex-worker said that while he initially supported the idea of an increase in the minimum wage, it may have come at too steep of a cost.
“For the extra money, yeah,” he said. “I mean, nobody is going to turn down a raise, but at the end of the day, with repercussions like this, was it worth it?”
I dunno, you tell me: was it?
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California collapse on the horizon. The sooner the better.
They earned it.
Be still, my beating heart.
But let’s be clear here: SACRAMENTO earned this.
And the state’s Dumbocommunists.
That is not “California”, since most of those aren’t “California”, in any measurable way.
Understood. They are certainly 100% communists. I guarantee you some of them are home grown. Like the commie Newscum. He’s several generations Californian and if you look closely you’ll discover he was performing the same tricks for willie brown that kamala did 🙂
Apparently Foster’s Freeze (a cheaper Dairy Queen) is also closing 5 locations.
The 99¢ Store is closing 371 stores, and laying off hundreds of workers.
Gabbin’ Nuisance’s overnight 33% across the board labor increase killed them.
And this is just the first week. This thing’s gonna roll down like a tidal wave.
I’m hoping they double down, and go for a $40 Minimum Wage.
This could finally kill that stupid assed law as we know it, nationwide.
The Minimum Wage is $0.
I believe the minimum wage should be a million dollars an hour. Then, we’d all be RICH! Why, we would eliminate poverty and want with one fell swoop of the pen. No government has ever done that before.
Hey, if you’re dealing in impracticalities, unrealities, and pipe-dream impossibilities, put the pedal to the metal and go flat out Hell for leather, I say. 😉
In 2006 or 2008 I wrote a comment on a Daily Pundit post about Hillary Bitch Clinton pushing for a national minimum wage of IIRC $15/hr, as part of either her senatorial reelection campaign or her first presidential campaign. I demanded a national minimum wage of $25/hr because 15 would just cause prices to rise and make the working poor just as poor as before the rise. But 25 would compensate for this! It was troll … and succeeded beyond my wildest dreams. A bunch of people fell for it who really should have known better. Fun times!
(Reposted because of a glitch. What I want to know is, how the covid denialism resulted in a comment being deleted?)
I think I recall that, but I bet I wasn’t one of the fooled…
I don’t recall specifics. I just remember that it went to well over 100 comments, by far the most of any non-OT thread, and that some people were getting more and more spun up, in large part because I kept poking. (C’mon! My first comment on the post was a troll. Am I going to stop trolling just because some people are getting upset?) nemo paradise put his two cents in, helping it along. Bill finally couldn’t take it any more and spilled the beans. “It was a troll! It was SteveF! What did you expect?”
Ah, yes, I do remember because I recall Nemo aiding the fun and Bill spoiling the continuing story.
It was a good one.