Episode 311: McDonald’s Changes the Wage Conversation in California

The Working Lunch

The impacts of California’s new fast food law keep rolling in. This week, McDonald’s not only discussed price increases in California but new prototype restaurants less reliant on traditional labor. We’ll take a look at the real impact of these mandates. And its election day in many parts of the country next week and a few jurisdictions are particularly important to the industry, namely in Virgina and Minneapolis. We’ll dive into the races operators need to know about. And pharmacy workers have joined the fun and are protesting major national employers like Walgreen’s and CVS over working conditions. Does this have an impact on the industry’s labor pool? We’ll take a look. We’ll discuss those issues and wrap it up with the legislative scorecard.