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Celebrity chef blasts $50 minimum wage proposal
rangerrebew:
Celebrity chef blasts $50 minimum wage proposal
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Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., championed a proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to $50 per hour as part of her bid for the U.S. Senate earlier this year. Lee was no longer in the running as of March 5, but given the substantial gap between this figure and the current federal minimum wage of $7.25, her proposal drew considerable attention.
Among the critics was celebrity chef and restaurant owner Andrew Gruel, who expressed grave concerns about the proposal in an interview on Fox Business.
“This would completely decimate every single business in the state of California,” he said, speculating that only a small fraction of high-end retail businesses might withstand a $50 an hour minimum wage.
Gruel contended that California hosts thousands of state jobs and challenged the state to immediately raise those workers’ wages to $50 an hour.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/every-single-restaurant-will-close-overnight-celebrity-chef-blasts-california-politician-s-50-minimum-wage-proposal-calls-state-the-worst-run-in-the-country-do-you-agree/ar-AA1nIcBz?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=ada0569c58c84539a24f21b77dc1fa3c&ei=17
rangerrebew:
Plus, who would want to even open a business in Mejifornia?
PeteS in CA:
*****rollingeyes***** Well, I've learned that Chick-fil-A has plans to open 9 new stores in the SF Bay Area (probably none near Oakland International).
*****rollingeyes***** Guy Fieri’s Chicken Guy! restaurant chain will be expanding in Northern California, https://napavalleyregister.com/life-entertainment/local/food-drink/american-canyon-guy-fieri-chicken-guy/article_4faa9340-fddf-11ee-a7c4-df6b9e624888.html .
I know California-Bashers don't like to hear it, but only small areas of California resemble SF or Oakland or the Land of LA.
DefiantMassRINO:
Higher wages are a threat to the whole service industry business model. This was the folly of allowing well paying manufacturing and technology jobs to be offshored.
Those jobs were replaced with businesses that had low-wage, low or variable profit margin business models. (Would you like fries with your China-made iPhone or your Uber "side" gig?) When these $h!t jobs are no loner available, where do those displaced workers go when the service sector can no longer afford to employ them?
DB:
--- Quote from: PeteS in CA on April 26, 2024, 04:36:38 pm --- *****rollingeyes***** Well, I've learned that Chick-fil-A has plans to open 9 new stores in the SF Bay Area (probably none near Oakland International).
*****rollingeyes***** Guy Fieri’s Chicken Guy! restaurant chain will be expanding in Northern California, https://napavalleyregister.com/life-entertainment/local/food-drink/american-canyon-guy-fieri-chicken-guy/article_4faa9340-fddf-11ee-a7c4-df6b9e624888.html .
I know California-Bashers don't like to hear it, but only small areas of California resemble SF or Oakland or the Land of LA.
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California has become a vampire state draining the life out of the productive. Wealth lost and never recovered over one's life.
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