For years, Andrew F. Puzder, the CEO of CKE Restaurants, the parent company of the Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s fast-food chains, has been telling the world that while the U.S. government makes life needlessly miserable for businesses, California, where it has been headquartered, is exponentially worse.
This week, CKE announced that it is moving its headquarters to Nashville, Tennessee. A story at the Orange County Register failed to go beyond the company’s deliberately non-combative statement to explain why. As far as I can tell, the Los Angeles Times hasn’t covered the move at all (I can’t be absolutely sure because the paper’s search engine is demonstrably horrible). Meanwhile, LA’s CBS News affiliate appears to have intentionally omitted their reporter’s attempt to cite “the unfavorable economic climate here in California” as a factor contributing to the move from its print coverage of the story.
In June 2013, Puzder told the Wall Street Journal that his chain would not expand in California because the state “is not interested in having businesses grow,” noting among many other things that it takes 285 days to get a building permit after signing a lease. This means the chain has to pay rent for over nine months, plus the time needed to build, while not earning any revenues.
DOJ to investigate Carls Jr. for climate denial in 3..2..1
Shit.
It’s ALWAYS so simple to know where liberalism has injected its over-reaching, destructive and despicable regressive rules/laws on those that wish nothing more than to earn an honest living.
The revolution may be closer than you think.
Vote with your feet pal.
“Why did management clearly choose to go elsewhere? Among other things, [Andrew F. Puzder, the CEO of CKE Restaurants, the parent company of the Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s fast-food chains] told the Journal in 2013 that the Golden State’s labor laws are intolerable.”
To borrow one of Glenn’s leitmotifs, just think of old media as Democrat operatives with bylines, and their omission of why Carl’s Jr. is leaving California makes perfect sense.
Am I missing something here? No matter where their head quarters are, their stores in California still need to comply with Cali labor laws and compensation laws. I see zero impact from moving head quarters.
I will tell you how Californians respond to these things. They call it “corporate greed” and say “good riddance.” I’m not even kidding.
Brad, it has to do with state taxes. The corporation will save tons of money.
We are a California Corperation. The money they are saving by moving their head quarters out of states is peanuts compared to the cost of their day to day California stores costs. Nothing’s really changed except for state income tax and each Calugornia store is still paying that.
I expect to see a whole lot more of this in the very near future, both from Cali and Oregon, where both states are planning on transitioning fully to green energy sources, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, taxing the bejeesus out of any company that makes a buck and denying occupants the use of certain products manufactured by some companies in those states. Hey, the East Coast welcomes the business!
Maybe deep down, they don’t like the assholes in CA. I know I don’t!
Good, leave, I never ate at your place of business. I only live here because there’s no where else to live that is better. My house is paid for, I live within 2 hours of 2 states, I haven’t been infiltrated by Muzzies and other illegals, the homeless hang out by the river, and I live in a conservative county with a conservative sheriff. I don’t own a business and I patronize the ones I like – Carl’s Jr isn’t one of them.