Abolish The Absurd Fast Food Council – Daily News

One of Sacramento’s most absurd creations in recent years is the Fast Food Council of California. The Council is authorized “to establish an hourly minimum wage for fast food employees and to draw up standards, rules and regulations for the fast food industry”, as explained by the Department of Industrial Relations of the State.

First, a brief story. In 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom signed what was called Fast Recovery Act establishing Fast Food Council, allowed a minimum fast food wage of $ 22 to be fixed and facilitates the pursuit of franchisors on work violations.

After the fast food industry has gathered signatures to potentially increase the law before voters, an agreement was concluded in 2023 and new legislation was signed by giving fast food workers a minimum wage of $ 20 and restoring the fast food coucil with a few guidelines.

A few months later, at the beginning of 2024, Panera-Gate, in which it appeared that Panera BREAD received a sculpture from the laws of fast food thanks to an unusual provision exempting any company which “operates a bakery which produces for sale in the premises of the establishment”. Speculation at the time was that scoureout had something to do with the links between the Panera Greg Flynn and Newsom franchisee. Later, state officials said the law would apply to Panera.

At the same time, it appeared that the International Union of Service Employees forced all parties to negotiate the fast food law to sign non-divulgation agreements. The legislation to prohibit the use of NDAs in legislative processes has been introduced and rejected. The California Chamber of Commerce, curiously, has risen to defend the NDA in the legislative process.

Of all this mess, the Californians have just seen higher prices each time they try to get something fast to eat.

The now established fast food council, on the other hand, is entirely set up with several members and not much to do in addition to planning to discuss an even higher minimum wage.

“During her next unreasonable meeting, she plans to discuss the increase in this 3.5% requirement or the inflation rate from last year, according to the same thing,” reports Calmatters. “But that won’t do much more than that.”

The council was mainly busy finding how to behave itself. He now has some staff members hired, to start. “The members of the Council on both sides said they wanted to find compromises to improve industry, but meetings – about half a dozen since last March – went in the same way: the discussion mainly focused on what the council should discuss,” notes Calmatters.

We have a better idea: the fast food coucil should not exist. Do you know who knows how to manage a fast food business? The people who own and direct them.

It is not necessary that this entity exists and there is no legitimate reason for a fast food advice tell business owners how to do their job.

California has enough problems on its hands. All this effort to appease the Seiu has just made things more expensive and more complicated.