re: California’s $20 fast food minimum wage balloons menu prices

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They picked on fast food because many minimum wage industries can easily move to a new state. Fast food restaurants can close, but they aren't in a position to move.

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Very true. Another stupid thing that they did was to make no differentiation between franchise and corporate stores. Franchise owners don't necessarily have the pockets to just absorb these additional costs. I'm not in favor of any of this but the corporate stores, say an In-N-Out, are in a far better position to navigate this than the small business owner that has a couple Arby's. Then you have the worst case scenario playing out:

Local Fox story on restaurant closing

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I tried to the end to try to figure out a way to make it work. Last thing I ever wanted was to close down," he said. "By Friday night I knew I was most likely not gonna be able to stay open but I didn't want to ruin their Easter Sunday. Small businesses can't survive a 120% plus min wage increase over the last 10 years. We are all more broke than we were 10 years ago it's clear raising min wage isn't helping....I am sad to see my employees off, and sad to see lemoore off. This location has been in business for 35+ years and lemoore has been such a good place. It's painful to realize that raising min wage and regulating fast foods are putting people put if business but that is the path california leadership has taken. Thank u to my staff for everything and thank u lemoore for all the support over the years."

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And another one..

Small business is going to get hammered in a big way.

Lemoore is where they filmed a lot of Top Gun: Maverick with the naval air station being there.