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• inferiorhuman 3y ago
  Yeah I already addressed that. Newsom's trying to walk back his pay to play bullshit by claiming Panera doesn't produce bread on site. If you believe that, well, I've a bridge in Brooklyn for sale. If California tries to enforce their strict definition of produce, you can bet Newsom's buddy will litigate (and that nobody will like the outcome). More likely California will look the other way when Panera refuses to up their wages. Think about it critically for a sec without your partisan goggles. We're talking about a hyper specific exemption (60+ locations, sells bread produced on-site as a standalone product since at least 2022 or whenever). If it doesn't apply to Panera, who does it apply to? It won't apply to McDonald's or Subway because bread has never been a standalone item there. It won't apply to the Lee's by my place because there aren't 60 of them. Certainly Newsom and the legislature wouldn't have spent the effort to carve out an exemption that applies to nobody.