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California Fast-Food Chains Are Now Serving Sticker Shock

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Chains were raising prices way before the minimum wage hike. Everyone is, that’s inflation.

WSJ desperate to make it sound like California’s initiatives are backfiring.

Yeah fast food already crazy expensive out here. Its already about the same as a sit-down restaurant. No real reason to buy it. Maybe this is the beginning of the end?

It's gone up everywhere, but California is definitely unique in just how much it is shooting up, especially after the minimum wage increase was passed: https://www.qsrmagazine.com/story/californias-fast-food-wage...

it’s not a given that prices must rise that much. In-n-out raised their burger prices by $0.25.

That is because that particular fast-food chain was already paying most of its workers more than the new minimum wage.

Proving it can be done. These other companies should lower their profits instead.

> That is because that particular fast-food chain was already paying most of its workers more than the new minimum wage.

and delivering superior product below market price. So, this is purely business efficiency/optimization aspect and not external factors.

It's crazy how much more expensive fast food is than groceries nowadays. [1] I feel like 10y ago the difference wasn't as large.

Restaurants are hit or miss. My nicer local places are more expensive but not like fast food.

Generally, it's as great a time as ever to know how to cook stuff from scratch with whatever is on sale.

[1] I paid $8 and change (BOGO) for ten locally-grown, free range boneless chicken thighs last week and grilled them up. Sandwiches, pasta, wraps, chicken salad all week. $8 doesn't even buy a 6pc McNugget meal where I live.

It was closer ten years ago. They really started to pull apart in ~2015: https://beta.bls.gov/dataViewer/view?selectedSeriesIds=CUUS0...

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