Panera Bread exempt from following California’s new $20 minimum wage law due to relationship with Gov. Newsom: reports

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/12541208

Panera Bread is exempt from following one of California’s newest laws, according to multiple reports. The new law will raise fast-food workers’ minimum wage to $20 per hour and will take effect beginning April 1.

The new law doesn’t recognize places that operate “a bakery that produces for sale on the establishment’s premises bread” as fast food, according to the law’s text.

Why the line was drawn at bread remains unclear.

However, Newsom pushed for the exemption, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. One of the primary beneficiaries of the exemption is Greg Flynn, a billionaire and longtime Newsom donor who has two dozen Panera Bread locations in California.

NutWrench,
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*California’s minimum wage is $16 per hour. Starting April 1, most fast-food restaurants must pay their workers at least $20 an hour under new legislation that Newsom signed last year, **but it does not apply to restaurants that have on-site bakeries and sell bread as a stand-alone menu item, *The Associated Press reported.

Panera doesn’t make jet engines, either. WTF does that have to do with wages?

reverendsteveii,

sounds like every business in california is gonna start making and selling 1 loaf of bread every day because of blatant corruption

RizzRustbolt,

He’s from St. Louis?

BlackNo1,

i hate the usa so much

NatakuNox,
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Lol they’ll lose their employees faster than it takes to bake bread if every other business is paying more.

LemmyKnowsBest,

still a tricky debacle because there’s no guarantee McDonald’s will hire a former Panera employee, if McDonald’s is not hiring because other positions are already full, including all customer orders taken from a robot kiosk.

Cqrd,

McDonald’s and Carl’s Jr have been trying to replace employees with robots for orders for a very long time. They’ve never had much success because old people suck at using these kiosks and don’t even bother trying

brianorca,

Until every other company figures out how to make and sell bread. “Would you like a McLoaf with your order?”

wintermute_oregon,

This is the problem with crappy laws. McDonalds bakes rolls which are bread.

I thought the bakery exemption was weird.

NutWrench,
@NutWrench@lemmy.world avatar

When you’re a billionaire, laws are nothing more than recommendations.

Maggoty,

Welcome to California. The most liberal state.

As long as you have a net worth more than 10 million USD…

jpreston2005,

Sounds like Greg Flynn got his moneys worth.

AshMan85,

What the actual fuck in corruption!

themeatbridge,

Why should bakers make less than french fry cooks?

Plastic_Ramses, (edited )

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xenoclast,

Ding ding ding. Give this person a fresh pastry.

TinfoilBeanieTech,

put an easy bake oven next to the microwave, make one batch a day.

Seasoned_Greetings,

Depends on what degree the “on site bakery” needs to resemble an actual one.

I can see mcds adding a glass window with some muffins and calling that a “bakery” just to skirt the law.

Test_Tickles,

And don’t forget any place that toasts your bread. Basically, all a place needs is a toaster oven and suddenly they are exempt.

catloaf,

Subway already bakes cookies. Starbucks bakes a bunch of stuff. I’m sure McDonald’s would be happy to put a single tiny oven to bake their apple pies in each location.

CheezyWeezle,

Apple pies aren’t bread per the FDA definition of “bread”, see here:

www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/…/CFRSearch.cfm?CF…

These places would need to start producing full loaves to meet that definiton

Maggoty,

It’s a state law. It’s the definition there that matters.

afraid_of_zombies,

Baking a loaf once a day isn’t all that hard especially if you just bought a bread maker. This could easily be like the era before internet porn where porn stores would have some regular books in the window.

deur, (edited )

Um… subway also bakes the bread lol. They get the dough in boxes and bake them daily.

The cookies though, idk about Subway but McDonalds gets them premade and throws them in the oven for a bit.

jballs,
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"Sir, I ran the numbers. We can expand the restaurant to add ovens for the bakery to sell fresh bread. It’ll cost us $2,000,000 for the expansion and we’re projecting to lose half a million a year in operating costs. Or we can just pay our dozen employees an extra $2 an hour, making our employees happier, increasing retention rates, reducing training costs, and all in all just being the right thing to do "

“Good work, Johnson. I want those ovens up and running by Monday.”

HopeOfTheGunblade,
HopeOfTheGunblade avatar

God damn it, Newsom. Do better.

IdiosyncraticIdiot,

Newsom corruption? I would have NEVER guessed clutches pearls

Ghostalmedia,
@Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world avatar

I look forward to McDonald’s new fresh baked bread offerings.

toolverine,

In the South, McDonald’s does offer scratch made biscuits. They’re so good.

They’re even better when the workers that make them can have at least minimum wage.

NateNate60,

Which, in the South, is usually half of what it is in California

Breezy,

To be fair in California everything is double the price, plus everything also gives you cancer.

jaybone,

This sticker is known to the state of California to cause cancer. (Puts sticker on cancer warning sticker.)

Kusimulkku,

How is the cost of living in comparison?

clover,

In most of South Carolina you can still find houses for $100-150k.

nilloc,

Which it’s 1/4-1/10 of the base price for houses in CA.

Ghostalmedia, (edited )
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It’s are article written by a bot? All the links feel like the trash sources that GPT4 tries to grab.

catloaf,

The random ones interspersed throughout the article are to get you to read other stories for more ad views. If the links in the text point back to the same site, they’re probably automated, for the same reason. The article text itself doesn’t seem generated.

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