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For Immediate Release: April 1, 2025 Contact: Molly Weedn, molly@weednpa.com Data shows 22,717 fast food jobs lost, a 14.5% spike in food prices, and widespread cuts to employee hours since California’s 25% wage hike for fast...

California’s $20 fast food wage law (Assembly Bill 1228) turns one year old on Tuesday. Proponents, including the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and Gov. Gavin Newsom, have portrayed the...

For Immediate Release: February 18, 2025 Contact: Molly Weedn, molly@weednpa.com State Fast Food Council to Weigh Placing Another Wage Hike on the Agenda at February 26 Meeting as Job Losses and Food...

Executive Summary Assembly Bill 1228 (AB 1228) raised the minimum wage for certain fast food workers by 25% to $20 per hour, effective April 1, 2024. Bedrock economic principles hold...

OPINION – Less than two years ago, I achieved a lifelong dream: I became a small business owner. After 16 years in the fast food industry—starting as a team member,...

For Immediate Release: January 30, 2025 Contact: Molly Weedn, molly@weednpa.com Sacramento – More than 1,000 local restaurant owners want Governor Newsom and the Fast Food Council to hear them loud and clear:...

The brief highlights errors in UC-Berkeley’s pro-wage hike study and presents new evidence showing the net negative effect of the $20 minimum wage. Arlington, VA – Today, the Employment Policies...

With the restaurant industry buffeted by higher costs, Miso Robotics in Pasadena is one of several tech startups betting their robots will appeal to fast-food chains searching for new ways...

Proposition 32 on this year’s ballot would raise California’s minimum wage to $18 per hour, but it would also raise the cost of living. Proponents often claim that previous wage...

I moved to Los Angeles in high school and worked in my parents’ 7-Eleven. After seeing how franchising provided an opportunity for immigrants like us to pursue small business ownership...

Everyone in Los Angeles County eats out — often, or from time to time. Since the pandemic, most everyone eats in, too, occasionally — not on cuisine freshly prepared in...

When California lawmakers, Gov. Gavin Newsom, fast food corporations and the Service Employees International Union announced an agreement to raise fast food workers’ wages, all sides seemed to accept the deal.  Except,...

Yet another Fosters Freeze restaurant in the Fresno area has closed. The restaurant on the edge of Old Town Clovis at Clovis Avenue and Ninth Street closed Monday. The restaurant...

Since April 1, when California’s minimum wage for fast food workers increased from $16 to $20 an hour, customers have seen prices climb—in some cases substantially. A survey conducted by the...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — After California’s minimum hourly wage for fast food workers increased from $16 to at least $20, customers may have noticed the prices for their favorite...

Lawrence Cheng and his family own seven Wendy’s locations south of Los Angeles. But this busy summer season, he has fewer staff clocking in to help him. Cheng told the...

California raised the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 in April. Restaurants are responding with cost-cutting measures to stay open. Results from a new survey reveal that the...

Gavin Newsom keeps denying evidence that his minimum-wage policy hurts workers. California’s political class really is living in La La Land when it comes to economics. Gov. Gavin Newsom keeps denying that...

California officials are reportedly considering a further increase to the recently implemented $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers. The California Food Council, which was established by Governor Gavin Newsom, is...

A Survey of Fast Food Employers' Responses to California's $20 Minimum Wage Effective April 1, 2024, many limited-service restaurant operators (also referred to as “fast food” or “quick-service” restaurants) in...

(The Center Square) - The owner of fast-casual food chains Tender Greens and Tocaya filed for bankruptcy, citing California’s $20 per hour fast food minimum wage, inflation, and the state’s...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lawrence Cheng, whose family owns seven Wendy’s locations south of Los Angeles, took orders at the register on a recent day and emptied steaming hot baskets...

Workers and consumers pay the price for the state’s rising wage mandates. California’s $20 an hour fast-food minimum wage took effect two months ago, and the casualties are mounting. Rubio’s Coastal Grill, famous for its fish tacos, closed...

Rubio’s Coastal Grill employees took to social media over the weekend, lamenting dozens of California restaurant closures that took them by surprise. “Former employee after today,” wrote Thesil58 on Reddit on...

Restaurants are closing stores and moving toward value deals. It’s been about two months since the new California fast-food worker minimum wage law went into effect. Restaurant owners immediately felt...

Casual Mexican and fish taco chain Rubio’s Coastal Grill will no longer operate in the Bay Area.  The company headquartered in Carlsbad (San Diego County) abruptly closed 48 stores, around one third...

Kevin Roberts remembers when he could get a bacon cheeseburger, fries and a drink from Five Guys for $10. But that was years ago. When the Virginia high school teacher...

It didn’t take long for Harshraj Ghai to respond to the impact of California’s new $20 an hour minimum wage for his 3,700 fast-food employees. Ghai and his family operate 180 Burger...

Higher state minimum wage went into effect April 1; chains say burritos and burgers are getting more expensive in response. Restaurants for months have said menu prices in California would rise as...

California fast food prices have risen by 7% in six months – the biggest bump in the nation, according to one industry cost tracker My trusty spreadsheet reviewed a study by...

California fast-food restaurant prices, already higher than average in the U.S., have gotten more expensive. Starting this month, a new California law required large fast-food chains to pay their employees $20 an hour, 25% higher than the...

While fast-food restaurant customers said they are feeling the pinch, the California Restaurant Association said the price increases the “entirely predictable” results of the minimum wage increase.  Since California’s new...

Justin Foronda is the type of creative, motivated, second-generation entrepreneur who should be able to thrive in Los Angeles. Born and raised in Historic Filipinotown, Foronda opened HiFi Kitchen in 2019...

New York (CNN) — California just raised the minimum wage for the state’s fast food sector workers by $4 to $20. As if on cue, it raised a familiar refrain that those workers would...

California’s new minimum wage law has caused the Fosters Freeze in Lemoore to close its doors. Multiple fast food restaurants in the Central Valley have shut down after the $20...

It’s no secret that California is expensive. Californians pay more than most for electricity, gas and rent. Even eggs cost more here. Now, fast food is likely to join that list, as a $20 minimum wage mandate kicks in this week for workers at big...

The new California $20 minimum wage for most fast-food restaurants hit April 1. It jumped $4.50 from the $15.50 on Dec. 31. That increase definitely is helping the 500,000 workers...

California’s headline-grabbing minimum wage increase went into effect on April 1, ensuring pay of at least $20 per hour for all fast-food workers across the state.  The $4-per-hour increase for...

Most of these Monday began paying employees the new minimum wage of $20 an hour for fast-food workers, a $4 an hour hike from California’s already high $16 an hour minimum...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s higher minimum wage for fast-food workers takes effect Monday. On top of California’s already high $16 minimum wage, the minimum wage for fast-food workers will increase to $20 an hour, the highest minimum wage in the U.S. Minimum-wage advocates parrot the claim that this is a win for fast-food workers....

Chipotle, McDonald’s, Starbucks, Jack in the Box and Shake Shack are planning to raise menu prices. Fast-food franchisees are laying off employees or cutting their hours. Smaller independent business owners,...

Two Pizza Hut franchisees in California are among those who are laying off workers.  Californian fast-food restaurants are cutting workers to prepare for the $20 minimum wage. Pizza Hut franchisees...

After Pizza Hut franchisees laid off more than 1,200 delivery drivers at California locations last month, it appears that more restaurants are following suit ahead of the state’s $20 minimum wage increase, according...

In April, California fast-food workers are set to get paid $20 an hour under a new state law. Two California Pizza Hut franchisees laid off 1,200 delivery drivers ahead of the pay...

When the Pizza Hut chain recently announced it planned to lay off its 1,200 delivery drivers across the state, it launched what may be a fast evolution of California’s fast food industry....

Some Pizza Hut franchises in California plan to lay off their delivery drivers ahead of state law requiring higher pay for food workers. About 1,200 people across the state will...

Pizza Hut franchises in California are laying off their staff delivery drivers in anticipation of a new state law raising the minimum wage to $20 per hour in 2024. The move will result...