bebopwaffleshop / X screen shotCommentary Popular Restaurant Unable to Survive Even One Day of New $20.76 Minimum Wage Law The owner of Bebop Waffle Shop will have to shutter her business, but still supports the minimum wage hike that forced her to close. By Ben Zeisloft January 2, 2025
Mat Hayward - The Recording Academy / Getty ImagesCommentary Dem Lawmaker Says the Quiet Part Out Loud as She Suddenly Changes Her Tune on the Senate Filibuster By embracing the filibuster now that it serves Democrats' purposes, Jayapal demonstrated the hypocrisy of disguising interests as principles. By Michael Schwarz November 12, 2024
Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Hart HouseCommentary Celebrity's Fast-Food Chain Suddenly Closes All Locations Following Minimum Wage Hike It's not easy shilling vegan fast food, even in trendy L.A.. But when the minimum wage goes through the roof, something has to give. By Joe Saunders September 14, 2024
Jae C. Hong / AP California's New $20 Fast Food Minimum Has Immediate Impact as Franchisees Are Forced Into a Bind “I schedule one less person, and then I come in for that time that I didn’t schedule and I work that hour.” By The Associated Press July 9, 2024
Justin Sullivan / Getty ImagesCommentary California's $20 Minimum Wage Sinks San Fran McDonald's in 'Gut-Wrenching' Loss After Over 30 Years of Service This is hardly the only fast-food restaurant that's getting hit hard in the Golden State, either -- and it's only going to get worse. By C. Douglas Golden June 24, 2024
Rick Diamond - Arby's / Getty Images Hollywood Nightmare: California $20 Minimum Wage Sinks Hollywood's 55-Year-Old Arby's Newsom inked his state’s new minimum wage into law last September and the results have been predictable for some. By Johnathan Jones June 20, 2024
Alexi Rosenfeld / Getty ImagesCommentary In-N-Out Burger Customers Experience 'Sticker Shock' After California's Minimum Wage Increase California's destructive minimum wage law is once again wreaking havoc on the very people that legislators hoped to help. By Warner Todd Huston June 12, 2024
rblfmr / ShutterstockCommentary The Californian Exodus Continues as a Major Pizza Chain Relocates to Georgia The popular fast-casual restaurant chain, founded in California in 2011, is moving its headquarters across the country. By Warner Todd Huston June 11, 2024
Roy Rochlin / Getty ImagesCommentary 'Shark Tank's' Kevin O'Leary Explains Why Restaurants Are Closing in America, Warns It's Only the Beginning "Perched on his wobbling podium, Biden expounds that he is rebuilding the economy from the bottom up. This evidence suggests otherwise." By Allison Anton June 11, 2024
CABIA / screen shot California Trade Group Reveals Devastating Impact of $20 Minimum Wage, Publishes Full-Page 'In Memoriam' "This was such a destructive law, and now we are starting to see the first figures from it. And they are not pretty." By George C. Upper III June 10, 2024