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Breitbart: California Workers Arrive at Restaurant to Find It Closed Thanks to Newsom’s $20 Minimum Wage.

Restaurant workers at a Foster’s Freeze location in California arrived at work this week to find they had lost their jobs because it had closed, thanks to a $20 minimum wage signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) that took effect April 1.

How the $20 mandatory minimum wage is working out.

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Business Insider: 5 ways fast-food restaurants in California are cutting costs to cover the new minimum wage.

1. Laying off workers
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2. Cutting hours and hiring less
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3. Dropping staff benefits
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4. Turning to order kiosks

Restaurants are turning to technology and automation to help reduce labor costs.

Sharon Zackfia, a restaurant analyst at William Blair, previously told BI that she expects digital order kiosks — currently a key focus area for some fast-food chains — to spread "even more quickly" in California. Kiosks mean that diners can place orders without having to speak to staff at a counter.

[Michaela] Mendelsohn, the El Pollo Loco franchisee, told CNN that she was introducing order kiosks and was considering bringing in AI-operated drive-thrus.
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5. Spending less on operations
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Alex Johnson, the Auntie Anne's Pretzels and Cinnabon franchisee, told the AP that he wasn't looking at opening any more locations in California. "I have to consider selling and even closing my business," he said. "The profit margin has become too slim."

Why, who could have possibly ever considered there are other ways to circumvent big nanny state government oppressive and onerous over-regulation?

Tlaib ups minimum wage; wants $20/hour instead of $15.

Newsweek: Tlaib Says Federal Minimum Wage Should Be $20 per Hour, Not $15.

"By the way, when we started [the minimum wage debate], it should have been $15. Now I think it should be $20," [said Rashida Tlaib]. "Make sure America Rising hears that. It should be $20 an hour. $18 to $20 an hour at this point."
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"Eggs have gone up. Everything has gone up," Tlaib said. "The cost of food has gone up. The cost of a lot of a lot of things that we need has gone up already."

Yes, Rashida, the cost of eggs are the top concern of everyone in our nation

She should lead by example and accept $15/hour as her top wage. Or...maybe $15/day?

I'll up the ante. Bernie should be paying his staff $30/hour.
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Newsweek Archived

Average U.S. Hourly Wages

Trading Economics: $23.05.

Wages in the United States...reach[ed] an all time high of 23.05 USD/Hour in December of 2018.

U.S. Department of Labor Bureau Statistics: Total (average) private industry: $27.48.

AP News: The typical federal employee makes $37 an hour.