The real minimum wage, no matter how much liberal politicians try to deny it, is and always will be zero.
Now, California fast-food workers are learning this lesson the hard way, as the owners of their places of employment are reacting to the economy-crushing minimum wage hike by eliminating employees and bringing in automated kiosks for order placement. It didn’t take long, did it?
In response to recent minimum wage increases in California, fast food restaurants across the state are shifting to automation to get rid of wage-earning humans.
The move to making customers place orders at digital kiosks alleviates what owners say is the financial strain of rising labor costs after the minimum wage for the state’s fast food workers increased on April 1 from $16 to $20 per hour.
Harsh Ghai, a Burger King franchise owner who manages 140 outlets along the West Coast, is leading the…
