Despite running on Dunkin’ or lovin’ happy meals, America has a long history of underpaying the fast-food workers who make and deliver said iconic staples of the nation’s diet. But for some of the employees at Louisiana-based chicken chain Raising Cane’s, wages are no longer so poultry, or even paltry.
The industry’s changing salaries aren't necessarily a product of sudden generosity or the ghost of Christmas future paying a visit. Rather, it’s mostly due to California’s new law which implements a $20 minimum hourly wage for fast-food employees, higher than the state’s $16 hourly minimum in other sectors.
