• Maoo [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    You should always assume that these were planned business decisions made long before any wage increases were certain.

    Does Pizza Hut even have their own equivalent of the Dominos Pizza App Experience bullshit? I assume they deliver mostly through Doordash, the ascendant monopoly of prepared food delivery.

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    In the context of the Pizza Hut layoffs, the California franchises and its customers will rely on third-party delivery apps like Uber Eats, GrubHub and DoorDash for deliveries.

    same-picture

    Same product. Same wage rules. Very likely its the same staff, as plenty of these folks hustle between employers as freelance delivery workers. But now PizzaHut accountants get to pretend they don’t know how much a pizza delivery is going to cost month-to-month.

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      Uber comes in, ignores local laws, runs cabs out of business by running a huge debt financing scheme while also doing illegal shit. They build a monopoly. Then they cut wages, increase prices once there’s no competition. They do more illegal exploitation shit. Keep running on debt, making no money for years. Just bullying and grinding their way into this position. The end result is that they can now upcharge you for a service you were already getting. Now instead of restaurants and grocers delivering food, you get to pay extra for someone else to do it. Then those workers lose their job and go work for Uber, who will pay them less.

      Capitalist efficiency is putting as many businesses in between you and what you want/need as possible. Then cutting your wages so that you can’t afford the services you’re providing. All so some frat bro in Austin or San Fran can become a god.

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        Now instead of restaurants and grocers delivering food, you get to pay extra for someone else to do it. Then those workers lose their job and go work for Uber, who will pay them less.

        Is Uber exempt from the wage laws? I assumed PizzaHut would simply be outsourcing the cost to Uber, creating a surcharge for their food that doesn’t appear on their advertised price. They get to tell their investors that they cut costs without actually changing their business model.

        Capitalist efficiency is putting as many businesses in between you and what you want/need as possible.

        More businesses means more growth! More growth means more investment! More investment means more profits! No, I won’t explain how or why. This is Econ 101, dummy. Do your own homework.

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            There was a big vote about it in California in 2020: whether or not app-based jobs counted as employees and had to be given minimum wage protections. Uber spent record amounts of money on it and the hogs in Southern California need their treats so it went down in flames.

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          Maybe - if the minimum wage law in question only applies to restaurant employees, or employees generally, as Uber eats drivers are independent contractors, not employees.

  • GaveUp [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    Working as intended. This new law wasn’t to help workers, it was made to benefit small California business owners against the big national monopolies encroaching on their territory

    California and CA cities like SF have tons of protectionist laws. Helps to keep more money inside the state and the law writers get more support from their constituents

  • the_post_of_tom_joad [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    So their plan is to outsource delivery to doordash? I stopped getting delivery cuz the fees were killing me. Won’t this make it more difficult to compete against the other chains? What could i be missing?

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    Pizza hut has always been the worst pizza I have no idea how they still exist

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    I don’t know if this is anti-worker but I do hope just about every overpriced big box chain store goes under. The whole YUM foods brand doesn’t need to exist. I think restaurants are cool and good but we don’t need 12 different locations of the same joint pizza joint within a three block radius. Same goes for Starbucks and all the “treat” franchises