Impacts of the proposed Los Angeles fast food ordinance
Save Local Restaurants commissioned Oxford Economics to calculate high-level cost estimates relating to a proposed city ordinance that would impose new requirements on quick-service restaurant operators in Los Angeles.
Our analysis found that the proposed ordinance would cost a restaurant with 25 employees $48,312 annually, or a total of $54.7 million across 1,610 Los Angeles quick-service restaurants, equivalent to a 7.1% increase in labor costs. These projected costs come at a time when widespread news coverage shows the quick-service restaurant industry is already grappling with mass employee layoffs, reduced worker hours, increased food prices, and permanent closures—burdens that this proposed ordinance would likely intensify.
The experts behind the research
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Alice GambarinLead Economist, Economic Impact
Alice is part of Oxford Economics’ consulting division in the Americas, focusing on delivering socio-economic impact studies to clients across the continent.
Prior to joining Oxford Economics, Alice worked in the Housing Analysis Division at the UK Department for Work and Pensions, where she was involved in policy evaluation and data analysis. Alice holds a BA (Hons) and MSc (Hons) in Economic and Social Sciences from Bocconi University, Italy.
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Laurence Wilse-SamsonLead Economist, Economic Impact
Laurence is a Lead Economist in the economic consulting team in New York. He was previously Director of Policy Research and Economics at Bird, the electric scooter company. He has extensive experience performing economic modeling, research and analysis for private and public organizations and has worked doing economic analysis for litigation consulting at companies in the US and UK. He has also lectured at the University of Johannesburg, the University of Cape Town, and NYU. He has a PhD in economics from Columbia University.
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