There are new laws and regulations coming in California in 2020. For those operating in the state, there a lot of impacts these laws will have on pho restaurants and all restaurants in general. Some major areas include minimum wages (both state and local levels), food packaging and recycling/single use utensils and containers, and several others.
Here's a quick blurb from the CRA the restaurant group, not the gun group.
Make sure you know and understand what will impact your business and plan accordingly.
Recently I have to ask for drinking straw and plastic utensils for my takeout. Pretty annoying actually.
Yeah that's certainly true if you're a full service restaurant but if you're a fast food I think you're pretty much set up for this, as you're more likely to have the customers serving themselves to plastic utensils, drinking straws, etc. I know at the MD drivethrough windows they don't ask if you want a straw with your Coke because of course you do.
Restaurants are facing more and more challenges every day.
Yeah many people think the biggest impact will be minimum wages, but I think the recycling and packaging regulations will become just as important if not more.
@chuynh
So far all of my takeout orders (I'm in Southern CA) seems the same with neither price change not additional questions about utensils, although I think we're still ina transition time period before things actually take effect officially.
I'm not a fan of those paper straws. They disintegrate too fast. Guess you have to drink fast these days.
