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[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

“California's statewide minimum wage is $16 per hour. Newsom signed a law last year that says fast food restaurants that are part of a chain with at least 60 locations nationally must pay their workers at least $20 per hour beginning April 1. But the law does not apply to restaurants that have their own bakeries to make and sell bread as a stand-alone menu item.”

Is there an explanation as to why making your own bread means minimum wage laws cannot be applied to businesses that otherwise meet these requirements?

[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The explanation:

Flynn has been a generous donor to Newsom’s political campaigns, including contributing $100,000 to fight a failed recall effort against the governor. Bloomberg reported that the two men attended the same high school. Flynn also acquired a resort managed by Newsom’s hospitality business in 2014, but terminated the management contract about a year after the purchase, according to the news outlet.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-02-29/newsoms-office-calls-allegations-about-panera-bread-franchisee-absurd-says-company-is-not-exempt-from-law

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

That is unfortunate. Absolute red meat for both-sides-are-bad politics.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Well, both sides are bad. It's just that one side is way, way worse.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Both sides are bad.

They're just looking out for different rich people.

People say voting 3rd party is a waste, but voting democrat just slows the loss.

Losing is still losing, lol.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

people gonna find out the hard way the libertarian party is funded by psychos.

the democrats are the best that the current voting system can deliver and we should make more efforts to implement an alaska style top 4 RCV system in the future. The way you prevent corruption of elected officials is to make it very easy to vote them out.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just saying, I never mentioned libertarians.

Ranked-choice voting would be nice, but democrats don't support it because they're bad people.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked-choice_voting_in_the_United_States

Tell me, which states have ranked choice voting and which states are run by the "bad people"?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The libertarian are psychos. The next time you meet one and you determine that they aren't just a Republican trying to have sex with a Democrat just mention to them "age of consent laws" and watch a small part of them die.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Absolute red meat for both-sides-are-bad politics.

Not exactly a secret that local economic interests dictate policies to career climbers in the political scene. This isn't even a "both sides" thing. Its a "how does a democracy actually work in practice" thing. The Whigs operate like this. The UK Tories and Labour operate like this. The German Greens and the Spanish People's Party operate like this. Its the baseline of liberal democracy the world over.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is unfortunate. Absolute red meat for both-sides-are-bad politics.

Only if you really want it to be.

The real reason was because the law was specifically tailored for fast food, so to protect bakeries and other places it had the clause about the bread.

The law defines what a fast-food restaurant is, and says it is not an establishment that “operates a bakery that produces for sale on the establishment’s premises bread."

The donor was just confused if that meant him, ultimately he decided it probably did but that he’d pay them anyways.

But yeah this is totally the same thing as trump being friendly with Russia.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah...

He's a neoliberal and gets donations from Panera....

Cali should be full of progressives. But there's lots of money in being an incumbent in a seat the other party can't win.

Hell, Pelosi and AIPAC just got another I to the Senate. He'll keep taking donor money well after Pelosi is buried, and preventing a candidate that agrees with Cali voters from taking that seat for decades.

It can't change till we get them out of power in the Dem party, but we can't compete with their do ors money in a primary.

These days were lucky if we even get a primary.

Shit needs to change while it's still able to change

We need money out of politics.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Money is always been and will always be the problem.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Subway must be stoked. They don’t have to raise pay, and Panera is getting all the heat.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Anyone that voluntarily eats at Subway was probably a lost cause to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Their build your own sub thing is pretty neat (if insanely expensive) Honestly between them, Jimmy Johns, and Jersey Mikes, I think they win.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

If those are the choices, it doesn’t matter who “wins”, we all lose.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know there are independently owned delis right?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know not all of us are single hipsters who work from home in IT? Some of us just need a sandwich of known quality for a reasonable price quickly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cheaper to just make a PB&J then. A lot cheaper. Fast food is unreasonably priced now anyway.

Besides, I was more addressing the weird loyalty people have to chains, not them using it. People arguing over which chain sub shop is the best when they're all about the same is weird.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nice meme.

I can tell you can think for yourself.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Nice sarcasm. I can tell you have a favourite subway sandwich.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Subway sandwiches are pretty damn disappointing. People commonly say that for a real reason.

I say this as someone who used to work in a part of town that had two walkable options for lunch. 1) the office refrigerator, or 2) subway. I ate a lot of subway when I was too lazy to brown bag it. Having sampled that entire shitty menu, I can confidently say that place makes the saddest sandwich in town.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People commonly say that for a real reason.

Yeah, it's because most people can't think for themselves and just want to fit in with others.

I see it all the time.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If my dog could talk, this is what she would tell me after she ate cat shit.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Is this Jared Fogles' prison account or something?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems like a win for workers to me.

I’d like to hear from some of the Panera Bread employees about what type of boss Flynn is.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Win for Panera employees, loss for literally everyone else because it's so thoroughly normalized for politicians to narrowly tailor laws to favor friends that such a high profile incident is not even raising any flags in political circles.

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