Another California Fast Food Wage Increase Would ‘Cripple’ Restaurants, Owners Warn

More than 625 California fast food restaurant owners are warning the state’s new Fast Food Council that hiking their industry’s minimum wage above the $20 hourly rate imposed last year would “cripple thousands of small business owners” already struggling to stay afloat.

“We simply cannot survive another wage increase,” the restaurant owners wrote in a late-December letter to the council and its chair, Nicholas Hardeman.