Posted on 04/02/2024 12:54:51 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
You’ll be dropping a lot of dollar on that Whopper.
Menu prices at fast food chains across California have increased, as a new law went into effect requiring them to pay a $20-an-hour minimum wage to workers from Monday.
The Post checked menus at several restaurants in the Los Angeles area to see if the costs are already being passed onto consumers — with mixed results.
The biggest leap on was at a Burger King, where a Texas Double Whopper meal cost $15.09 on March 29, but surged to $16.89 on April 1, a price whopping increase of $1.80 for the same meal.
Most other items increased anywhere from 25 cents to a dollar. Burger King did not respond to a request for comment.
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It’s not just the minimum wage that’s gone up. Every wage will go up.
You thing the guy that was making $20 is going to be happy making the same $20 now? And so on down the line.
I struggle to understand how the legacy fast food joints stay in business. I don’t leave the house to buy their garbage. I’ll order something from a restaurant online, split it with the wife, and it’ll be ready when I get there.
It will also be far higher quality, taste, while being healthier and the same price.
“This could become the most quickly-reversed wage hike in history.”
Not a chance. Once you hand out a bennie you’ll pay the price of hell if you dare take it away.
I’m sure former mayor Michael Bloomberg is cheering the demise through starvation of fast food places, maybe smaller soda drinks, etc. Others cheering that the expense will cause people to eat out less.
Give Biden 3 months and he will claim BK is price gouging customers.
Because the price of a burger is now $17, and the average American worker can’t afford to pay that much for lunch ... we need to raise the minimum wage to $50 an hour.
And what group of people usually frequent fast food places?
Also, this is part of adding to the government coffers. Some low-wage workers will be priced out of freebies, and both the employees and employers are paying more payroll taxes.
This is boosting SS contributions - and those pushing it don’t care that it is shared by workers, companies, and customers.
I don’t think BK cares; they’re closing stores anyway. One closed near me at a busy spot along the highway; I was shocked how quickly any indication of the former business was removed (though the building was still there).
“Burger King did not respond to a request for comment.”
There’s nothing to comment on. Prices go up, businesses have to raise prices. It’s brutally simple math. What are reporters going to ask for comment on next? The fact that it gets dark at night? The fact that water causes wetness?
Liberals are stymied that they can’t WISH math to work out the way they want it to. That’s part of their issue—they don’t like standards. Standards, you see, aren’t flexible. Liberals want to be able to change them with the shifting air currents. Standards require work to meet them.
Liberals want to create money to pay people “Just GIVE them more...they NEEEEED it!” and the extra money will magically appear on the balance sheet. I don’t doubt they “neeeed” it, but a job cannot pay more than the value am employer gets out if it. If you pay people more, you WILL go out of business eventually.
No one said life was fair, and wages are a great example.
$20 an hour To get my burger order wrong. I it was a flawless experience and the food looked the way it does in the ads, I can see it. But it’s wrong, cold, doesn’t look like the ads, and they don’t habla, comprende?
And because MY paycheck won’t rise to comparable levels, why would I put forth the effort? Take a fast food job where I only need to be right 20% of the time, no 24/7 on call, no heave thinking, no problem solving needed, same paycheck.
Yea, that ought to do it.
What’s ironic is LAX is exempt from this law. Fast-food inside of airports, supermarkets, theme parks, etc. have their own loophole carved out.
They will all donate to Gov. Gruesome’s campaign fund and get exemptions.
I can take 5# of browned hamburger/3 cans of Hunt’s diced tomatoes/1 can of red kidney beans /dry onions/spices into a huge tub of chili in the turkey roaster-—LONG & SLOW in the oven.
Freeze into smaller containers—at least 15-17 meals.-
Still the best around-—if you live near one.
EASIER to change signs than to change equipment that is pre-scaled for each sized order.
You now are better off just going out to a regular restruant than fast foos, we love Baja fresh but now $32 for two burritos, we can go to a small mexican restruant and get two meals for less and that counts leaving a tip.
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