California’s absurd fast food wage law has been in effect for less than a week and it’s already made prices hotter than a fryolator.
The law mandates $20-an-hour minimum wages for fast food workers (with one corrupt carve-out made to order for a campaign donor and biz buddy of Gov. Gavin Newsom).
That’s translated to price hikes like $4 on a Big Fish meal at Burger King, 53% higher than pre-law prices.
On the chain’s signature double Whopper meal, the hike was $1.80, a bump of nearly 12%.
Progressives have turned Have it your way into Pay up, chumps!
Don’t forget big chains like Pizza Hut are planning to slash jobs, leaving less opportunity for kids and less-educated, less-affluent adults.
The move — much vaunted by progressives obsessed with economic justice — is going to make the state far less just, with higher costs and fewer jobs.
And it ain’t rich white guys like Newsom who will be bearing the brunt.
Don’t forget the carve-out: Greg Flynn, a bigtime Newsom donor and Panera franchise owner, will not be facing any new wage mandates, because restaurants that bake and serve bread as a standalone item and did so before the law passed (basically only Panera) aren’t subject to it.
The law’s a regular McFlurry of corruption, swirled with insane economic policy and big chunks of payola.
And guess what?
Here’s the latest on price increases at fast food restaurants
- ‘Out of control’ Five Guys prices ignite social media furor after $24 receipt for just burger, fries, small drink goes viral
- Wendy’s is selling $1 burgers after ‘dynamic pricing’ madness
- Panera Bread to launch cheaper sandwiches, abandon dinner in ‘largest menu transformation ever’
- Wendy’s planning Uber-style ‘surge pricing’ where burger prices fluctuate based on demand
New York’s lefties are hungry for what Cali’s having.
A city minimum-pay mandate for food delivery drivers kicked into effect here April 1, to almost $20 per hour.
In response, as anyone capable of doing third-grade math foresaw, DoorDash and Uber Eats have hiked fees, and mom-and-pop places dependent on app deliveries are taking a hit.
And a bill percolating in the Legislature would vest decisions about wages and benefits not with businesses themselves but with unelected and unaccountable external boards, for all sectors covered by minimum wage law — not just fast food.
If Cali and the Empire State keep on down this path, we can expect a real Hunger Games to begin all too soon.