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
FuzzMartin / Getty Images Bidenomics: National Burger Chain Considers Chapter 11 Bankruptcy The COVID pandemic and Bidenomics have wrecked havoc on restaurant chains, and another one is considering bankruptcy. By Warner Todd Huston June 4, 2024
Cassiohabib / ShutterstockCommentary Mexican Chain Rubio's Closing 48 Locations 2 Months After California Changed Law “The closings were brought about by the rising cost of doing business in California," the chain said in a statement. By Anthony Altomari June 4, 2024