The pizza place on Sports Arena Blvd had a sign they pay $22 an hour to start.
The immediate effect of this law is that fast food places will cut back on hours and add those order and pay yourself terminals.
Another change may be avoiding being fast food by having table delivery like Rubios.
There’s that fancy jack in the box in Hillcrest with the fireplace that was part of their failed “upscale jack” experiment. Taco Bell has a small number of “Taco Bell Cantina” with fancier interiors and sometimes beer.
Another change will be to have smaller menus to reduce labor costs from making less popular items. I get fast food only about twice a year now, and the menus seem to have fewer items than they used to, especially Taco Bell.
When I lived in Luxembourg, they had the highest minimum wage in the world, about $11.50 plus full health insurance, and 1.5 on all hours after 6pm, all of saturday, and 2x on Sunday. Most fast food was closed on Sunday as a result, and gas stations typically were closed on Sundays too rather than pay people $23 an hour in 2003, which I guess would be about $35/hr now.
Not being able to go shopping at any random time I liked was a small drag, but everyone got used to it.
