California’s new fast-food wage law is already impacting the average American.
California’s absurd (and corrupt) new fast-food minimum wage law is set to go into effect April 1, and the economic catastrophe has already begun.
Take Pizza Hut: The national stalwart has announced, in combination with local chain Round Table Pizza, a plan to cut nearly 1,300 delivery jobs in advance of the mandate to pay at least $20 per hour.
Would you like a side of unemployment with your Meat Lover’s Pizza?
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And please spare us the heavy breathing about socioeconomic justice.
This is a power play, pure and simple.
For proof look no farther than the sleazy carveout in the law custom-made for Panera franchise billionaire Greg Flynn, a campaign donor and quondam biz partner of Gov. Gavin Newsom: a bizarre exception for restaurants that bake and serve bread as a standalone item — and did so before the law passed, which is basically only Paneras.
So Flynn dodges the chop while his competitors get sliced and diced — and low-end workers lose their jobs.
The ease with which basic arithmetic continues to elude progressive economic policymakers continues to amaze us.
Seattle just saw food-delivery employment crater after a too-high minimum wage kicked in.
When you mandate higher costs for a good, like labor, businesses must either spend less on it (i.e. shed jobs and freeze hiring) or raise prices to cover it — slamming consumers.
Until Newsom and his woke cadre wake up and smell the pizza, the little guy is going to continue to get burned.