affects of the 20.00 pay hike in california

I really don't care if wage increases cause fast food to increase prices. Fast food is a luxury, not a necessity. You pay a premium for other people to buy, cook, and package your meal.

 

I've been hearing the same tired argument for years now every time a state decides to up their minimum wage

 

Lots of fast food restaurants did well during covid with drive through business only. I see that as an option once wages increase to a certain level. There will still be buyers of fast food. My wife and I do drive through and eat in the car at our convenience with peace and quiet. No whiny, loud, snot nosed kids. Once done we discard the bag in their trash can and head home.

 

That one slipped right by him.

 

Where's Tilly? More form that fabulous state of California. I sure he'll just act like San Diego will be immune to this type if business harassment. I would almost like to see this passed into law.


Hotel California: San Francisco Tells Grocery Stores They Can't Check Out OR Ever Leave

Hotel California: San Francisco Tells Grocery Stores They Can't Check Out OR Ever Leave

 

So it starts -

"A fair wage advocacy group is demanding that California’s new $20 minimum wage law for fast food workers be extended to all sectors to help working-class people who are struggling with the state’s high cost of living.

FOX Business spoke with Saru Jayaraman, president of One Fair Wage to discuss what she described as the skyrocketing levels of home insecurity and food insecurity post-pandemic.

Fast food workers winning a $20 minimum wage, she said, “was just the beginning.”

Jayaraman pointed to the exorbitantly high cost of living in the Golden State where, in some counties, an individual would need a $40 an hour salary to live comfortably."

Labor group says California $20 min wage 'just the beginning' vows to extend to all sectors despite layoffs (nypost.com)

 

https://www.wsj.com/business/hospit...re-now-serving-sticker-shock-64009282?mod=mhp

Consumers picking up burgers, burritos and chicken sandwiches at chains in the Golden State are grappling with prices that for months have been rising at a faster clip than in other states, according to market-research firm Datassential.

Since September, when California moved to require large fast-food chains to bump up their minimum hourly pay to $20 in April, fast-food and fast-casual restaurants in California have increased prices by 10% overall, outpacing all other states, the firm found in an analysis of thousands of restaurants across 70 large chains.

 

Why would a minimum wage, whatever it’s set at, only be applicable to fast wood workers in the first place? Definitely a stupid law there.

 

I find many people use the term "living wage" to mean "a wage that lets me live like the people I see on TV and in magazines", rather than "a wage that let's me rent a small apartment with 2 roommates and take the bus to work while I get through school and qualify for a better job." Your McDonald's job is supposed to provide the latter, not the former. People being OUTRAGED that they can't live like the Kardashians will working flipping burgers is ridiculous.

 

That's odd, because I find that no one defines 'living wage' as being able to live like the Kardashians.

 

Sounds like you don’t understand what you believe.

 

I never seem to get a specific definition of it. It’s always some obtuse inconsistent bit of world salad.

 

A simple search of the term would seem to indicate it’s pretty consistent around “basic necessities”, the wage required to afford basic necessities in a given area. Hardly word salad there. Though I suppose some might be loose with “basic necessities”, I don’t think this extends to expectations of living like “Kardashians”, whatever that means.

 

Because the difference in $15 and $20 an hour is the life of a Kardashian? The disdain folks have for the working class is mind boggling.

 

The next time you see someone talking about needing a "living wage", check to see if they have the latest iPhone, go to Starbucks for coffee every morning and are holding a Louis Vuitton handbag (maybe fake lol).

 

That’s the rub, what I might define “basic needs” may not be what someone else defines as basic needs.

Certainly when I was starting out making minimum wage I found a way to get by on what I made. A cheaper apartment, having a roommate, driving a beater or motorcycle because it was cheap. No cable, no internet. I cheap landline phone(all there was).

Things like buying used furniture, no vacations or trips, cheap ass beer and no boozing it up in the bars.