Their own link to the seasonally adjusted california low-service restaurant workers employment numbers shows it dropping from April 2024 to Nov 2024, albeit by

Their own link to the seasonally adjusted california low-service restaurant workers employment numbers shows it dropping from April 2024 to Nov 2024, albeit by a fairly small amount (~1200 people) though using the articles preferred time interval (April to October) shows a gain of about 1000 people. This is out of a total number of people of about 750,000. So this all looks like noise to me. Clearly there's demand for fast food, still, and restaurants adapted by raising prices. The article claims the law caused only a 3.7% price increase but that is on top of all the other inflation that has happened.