This is the best summary I could come up with:
Two Pizza Hut operators in California are eliminating their in-house delivery services at hundreds of stores, resulting in more than 1,200 driver layoffs, according to federal-employment notices reviewed by Business Insider.
The layoffs, effective throughout February, affect Pizza Hut delivery drivers across California, including at Sacramento, Palm Springs, and Los Angeles locations.
The Pizza Hut franchisees are reducing staff as fast-food chains in the state brace for a new law that increases worker pay to $20 an hour in April.
A driver who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation told BI that he was offered $400 severance pay if he stuck around through his February 5 layoff date.
Lisa Hough, the director of human resources for PacPizza in San Ramon, California, was listed as the contact on all five WARN Act notices that the company’s president, Brian E. Thompson, signed.
Mark Kalinowski, a restaurant-industry analyst, wrote in a note this week that he expected “more harm to come” in various ways as fast-food chains “take action in an attempt to blunt the impact of higher labor costs.”
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We have a local burger joint in Seattle that has a $25 wage, $18k in tuition, and child care.
Well, guess I’ll have to get my stuffed crust elsewhere. I’m on the other side of the country, doesn’t matter that none of mine are affected, they’re a shitty company.
Anyone got any recommendations for a good stuffed crust pizza? My “neutral” bar is pizza hut pizza, so compared to that.
If you’re bpycotting pizza hut you have to add Long John Silvers, KFC, Taco Bell, and A&W too, they’re all subsidiaries of Yum! Foods Inc™.
Holy shit, that’s like the who’s who of disgusting fucking food.
Never claimed they were good lmao, in fact I’ve been in on this boycott for a decade or so now already just because they suck so bad haha.
Very true!
I don’t eat at any of those places anyway though. Not a huge chicken guy, theres a great local tex-mex place if I’m in the mood, and I’m very particular about fish so I only eat what I’ve cooked myself, there.
But they’re on the ever-expanding list of companies that just can’t stop being shitty…
It sounds like this law only impacts some fast-food chains, so there are alternatives (within CA) for the displaced drivers to turn to. I’m guessing they may even end up at the same places, just under a 3rd-party delivery service instead. Which still sucks, of course, if you’ve ever called doorgrubdashhub support - “what support”