Why won’t YOU pay restaurant workers $20 an hour, Gov. Newsom?

California’s fast food minimum wage law is icing out whole businesses, not just jobs, in Week One.

SoCal soft-serve icon Fosters Freeze has shut down its Lemoore, Calif., operations, all because of the new requirement that fast food workers be paid $20 an hour. 

The workers got the bad news from management when they showed up for their a.m. shift.

Gives a whole, ugly new meaning to the phrase “hiring freeze.” 

Again: Everyone capable of grade-school arithmetic saw this coming. 

Jack up the cost of a good — labor, in this case — and businesses have to use less of it or pass the cost on to customers. Or, like the Lemoore Fosters Freeze, succumb to the big chill.