Hell yeah, good for them!
Read the details.
The mandatory raise would apply to all fast food restaurants in California that are part of a chain with at least 60 locations nationwide. It does not apply to restaurants that operate a bakery and sell bread as a stand-alone menu item, such as Panera Bread
Not much of a win.
Gonna be interesting to see McDonald’s start to sell bread
Well technically they do. You can buy a bun.
I am not sure why bakeries were excluded.
Small chains were excluded as well. They shouldn’t be. They should be given more of a ramp time to get up to the higher wage but shouldn’t be excluded.
When I lived in California, the local.stores outnumbered the chains.
I get paying more sucks but things should cost what it cost to pair livable wages.
Subway too
Not much of a win? It’s a $20 min wage. Any increase is min wage is good.
It doesn’t effect those other types of restaurants because this was a union won legislation. That’s the power of being in unions. It’s a great step forward.
If all you want is All Or Nothing, no one’s going to get anything.
Now Panera and bakeries will have to complete with several nearby locations offering significantly better compensation.
In completely unrelated news, California fast food chains plan price hikes for 2021
Because menu prices are directly tied to employee wages and nothing else. They were raising prices regardless.
Labor is about 25-35% of cost.
Here is the mistake people make. If labor goes up by 5 dollars per hour. It doesn’t mean a cheeseburger will go up by 5 dollars.
They’ll have to recalculate prices based on volume, etc.
People would always say double labor cost would double the end product. It shouldn’t.
It’s why I support fair wages. Things should cost what they cost. People should be able to survive on a job.
Now I wish wages were more regional. For rural California, 25 may not be bad. In San Francisco, this isn’t liveable.
