Burger King slashes worker hours & speeds up self-serve kiosks over California\u2019s new wage law Unsplash: Kseniia IlinykhA Burger King franchisee announced that they will be slashing workers\u2019 hours and expediting the rollout of self-service kiosks to cut costs. The franchisee owner, Harshraj Ghai, owns 180 fast-food restaurants throughout California, and 140 of these are made up of Burger Kings\u2019. In an interview with Business Insider, they explained the situation, stating: \u201cWe can\u2019t move fast enough on this. \u201cWe have kiosks in probably about 25% of our restaurants today,\u201d he said. \u201cHowever, the other 75% are going to have kiosks in the next probably 30 to 60 days.\u201d \u201cWe are installing kiosks in every single restaurant,\u201d he went on to say. Ghai raised prices between 8% and 10% in the past year, and said that getting rid of overtime, and limiting the amount of workers\u2019 hours will mean that he will be able to expand the breath of his restaurant empire. Speaking about potentially increasing menu prices, Ghai responded saying: \u201cI can\u2019t take more price than that\u2026 Anything more than that is going to result in [a] significant impact to our traffic.\u201d Talking about his plan of action Ghai said, \u201cNow we are just going ahead and installing the kiosks in every single restaurant in response to the legislation to be able to balance some of these labor costs that are hitting us.\u201d Burger King also made headlines in April, after people questioned whether or not the famous Whopper was being taken off of menus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Burger King slashes worker hours & speeds up self-serve kiosks over California\u2019s new wage law Unsplash: Kseniia IlinykhA Burger King franchisee announced that they will be slashing workers\u2019 hours and expediting the rollout of self-service kiosks to cut costs. The franchisee owner, Harshraj Ghai, owns 180 fast-food restaurants throughout California, and 140 of these are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}