California minimum wage shocks fast food workers as restaurant closes: 'Only the beginning,' ex-manager warns
Former Fosters Freeze assistant general manager Monica Navarro reacts to the sudden closure and how others are responding on 'The Bottom Line.'
Another California small business and its workers have seemingly suffered at the hands of the state’s newly enacted $20 minimum wage.
«It's a shock,» Monica Navarro, former assistant general manager at Fosters Freeze in Lemoore, said Wednesday on "The Bottom Line."
«It would have been nice to have a notice, so we could go get some applications [out], I could prepare them,» she continued. «The best I can do is honestly give them some references.»
When making their way to work Monday morning, Navarro and her team learned upon arrival that the restaurant owner had made the decision to close its doors for good. The owner, Loren Wright, told local Fox affiliate KMPH that this was the «last thing» they wanted to do, but knew by Friday night the business likely wouldn’t be able to absorb the wage hike and didn’t «want to ruin their Easter Sunday.»
CALIFORNIA FAST FOOD FRANCHISEE SLAMS NEWS MINIMUM WAGE, INVESTS IN NEVADA OVER SIX-FIGURE LOSS
The new California statewide legislation went into effect Monday and enforces a $20 minimum wage for restaurants that have at least 60 locations nationwide, except those that make and sell their own bread.
Former assistant general manager Monica Navarro at Fosters Freeze in Lemoore, California, says the team felt «shock» learning the restaurant closed Monday due to the new minimum wage law. (Fox News)
«Two of my coworkers were actually going in to clock-in for the morning. And right after that, that's when I got a phone call that we were closing. So they found out right as they were about to clock-in for the day,» Navarro recalled.
«We had
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