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Panera Bread is exempt from following one of California’s newest laws, according to multiple reports. The new law will raise fast-food workers’ minimum wage to $20 per hour and will take effect beginning April 1.

The new law doesn’t recognize places that operate “a bakery that produces for sale on the establishment’s premises bread” as fast food, according to the law’s text.

Why the line was drawn at bread remains unclear.

However, Newsom pushed for the exemption, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. One of the primary beneficiaries of the exemption is Greg Flynn, a billionaire and longtime Newsom donor who has two dozen Panera Bread locations in California.

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[-] wolfpack86@lemmy.world 58 points 9 months ago

This is such a weird exemption. It's so narrow that these places will have to raise their wages by default anyway.

Nothing will stop their employees from just leaving to take a job at McDonald's for $20/hr instead of the $15 or whatever panera wants to pay.

[-] xor@infosec.pub 43 points 9 months ago

except all other fast food places are going to start making bread and selling it there...
subway already makes "bread"...
macdowell's will say their microwaved cinnamon buns count as making bread or some bullshit

[-] NateNate60@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

"Bread" is a legally defined term.

Bread, white bread, and rolls, white rolls, or buns, and white buns are the foods produced by baking mixed yeast-leavened dough prepared from [flour] and [water, milk, or egg] and [yeast]. The food may contain additional ingredients as provided for by paragraph (c) of this section. Each of the finished foods contains not less than 62 percent total solids as determined by the method prescribed in paragraph (d) of this section.

[-] Fondots@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

I'd need to see paragraphs C and D of that section, but based on that description alone, cinnamon buns could certainly be counted as bread as long as paragraph C doesn't forbid a couple common ingredients like sugar, butter, and of course cinnamon.

I guess you'd also need to know how they're defining "produces," do they have to make the bread from scratch on-location, or if they got shipments of premade dough from somewhere to bake in-store would that count as producing bread.

I'm almost certain that the answers to those questions can be found with about 5 minutes of googling, I just honestly don't care enough to Google it myself.

[-] NateNate60@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Besides flour, yeast, water, milk, and egg, the rest of the ingredients are food additives. The CFR section in my comment above says that bread is produced by baking it.

[-] oopy_soup@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Subway selling bread is against their policy. The two halves aren't allowed to touch.

[-] bss03@infosec.pub 4 points 9 months ago

Seriously tho, didn't one country determine that Subway sandwiches are served on pastry, not bread? I believe the legal definition (in that country) had to do with sugar content and Subway's was too high.

[-] Early_Insurance_3334@lemmy.ca 10 points 9 months ago

Yes that was Ireland

[-] matjoeman@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

McDonalds gonna start selling bread

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

McDonald's gonna lobby Newsom for that Big Mac exemption

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 9 months ago

You mean a big mac?

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

Calling it now. He's the party's preordained nominee for 2028.

First the vetoes, now he's laying it on thick by being anti-labor. He's pandering to party leadership.

[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

If Trump wins there won't be a election in 2028 and fuck Newman I won't vote for him.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

I see the "any criticism of Biden means you must want Trump" thing now extends to any criticism of any Democrat.

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 19 points 9 months ago

Sounds like Subway is also exempt...

[-] Furedadmins@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Didn't Panera follow the tim Hortons downfall model of replacing their on premise bakeries with centralized factories?

[-] ickplant@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

All I know is their food used to be good, and now it’s atrocious.

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