Today's Bee Letter: California's Restaurant Mandates

Responding to California health care mandates burden small businesses - by Lorraine Salazar, co-owner of Sal's Mexican Restaurants page B10 8/8/25

Lorraine Salazar, co-owner of Sal's Mexican Restaurants writes to protest California's requirement that employers provide (more expensive) healthcare for workers. She omits mentioning the way restaurants often refuse to provide full-time hours and health benefits for their workers now. That means their workers must work multiple jobs and either work sick or rely on Medicaid--health care for poor people, whose coverage has been reduced by the Trump administration. 

Rubio's restaurants protested the California minimum wage too, closing all their restaurants in the state. They omitted mentioning that private equity bought the chain and encumbered with so much debt it couldn't afford to pay its workers and the loans. The lenders got priority.

The omissions are as important as what was said.