California fast food workers now earn $20 per hour. Franchisees are responding by cutting hours.

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https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/california-fast-food-workers-now-050715601.html

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 of French fries and chicken nuggets, salting them with a flourish.

Cheng used to have nearly a dozen employees on the afternoon shift at his Fountain Valley location in Orange County. Now he only schedules seven for each shift as he scrambles to absorb a dramatic jump in labor costs after a new California law boosted the hourly wage for fast food workers on April 1 from $16 to $20 an hour.

“We kind of just cut where we can,” he said. “I schedule one less person, and then I come in for that time that I didn’t schedule and I work that hour.”

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If only we had a thread on this already......

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15 minutes ago, Strike said:

If only we had a thread on this already......

or 5?  why stop at 4? We have 35 threads on everything else.