Why is Panera exempted from the new CA minimum wage?

Newsom's buddy owns a bunch of the restaurants

In a crony capitalist system it pays to have friends at all levels of government. In California that is arguably more true than any other state in the union. Cali is deeply crony at all levels. No other state warps the marketplace like the Golden State, though plenty of other states are not far behind.

One way a crony system helps the connected is by ma…