A new law goes into effect tomorrow, Monday April 1, which is also April Fool’s Day, very fitting, that raises the minimum wage for fast food workers to $2o an hour. This is going to result in the layoff of tens of thousands of employees in order to save costs, and in many cases will also result in the outright closure of some of these corporations that are already operating on a thin margin.
With prices up and wages down, many individual fast food franchise restaurants in low income areas have shut down over the past few years, and now many more will follow.
This does two things to the population. It takes jobs away and deepens the general poverty, and it makes food harder to come by.
Curiously,restaurants producing and selling bread as a stand-alone menu item are exempt from this law. So if you have a fast food restaurant associated with a large franchise and want to stay in business, put in a bread oven, just bake one certain kind and offer it as a separate item on the menu. Now, how weird is that?