Fast food workers are getting a huge raise. Will $20 an hour become San Diego’s new minimum wage? – The San Diego Union-Tribune

For the past decade, a Jan. 1 pay raise for San Diego s lowest paid workers has been about as predictable as the New Year s Eve ball drop in Times Square. And 2024 will be no different except for one huge change that could forever reshape wages for hundreds of thousands of employees locally and across the state.

Starting Monday, the hourly minimum wage will jump to $16.85 in the city of San Diego and to $16 in the rest of the county a modest 3 percent increase. Three months later, though, a far more consequential wage hike will take effect, boosting the hourly pay of California s half million fast food workers to $20 a not so modest raise of nearly 25 percent.

via www.sandiegouniontribune.com

This will mean fewer fast food workers. Bad for people who like to eat.