Pizza Hut franchisees lay off more than 1,200 delivery drivers in California as restaurants brace for $20 fast-food wages

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  1. Sounds like Pizza hut is going all in on GrubHub or Uber Eats. Getting the customer to further subsidize their services through other companies Instead of taking that money and paying the wages themselves. Let’s see how that works out for them.

  3. I’m surprised they had drivers in the age of Uber eats and Grubhub. I’m pretty sure most of those drivers will be able to transition into the gig economy pretty easily. $20 fast food wages have been a successful thing in many European countries for awhile now, I doubt it’s going to cause much pain in California.

  4. He’s just making a show of it for press.

    First off even in much cheaper places average pay for a pizza deliveryman is pushing $20/hr.

    Uber/Doordash/et al normally add a 30-50% premium on top of that.

    Worse, their quality is terrible. Late delivery, beat up and cold food or no food because the driver ate it, etc, etc.

    There’s damn good reasons why the pizza industry and indeed most industries don’t use 3rd party “gig” delivery services.

    But when he rehires the few he actually fires the media won’t cover that.

  5. It’s bout to get real over there… lots of stores about to close too once leases are up. The revenue potential isn’t worth the added operating expenses at a certain point

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