The Golden State is already home to some of the highest taxes and costs of living in the country, the consequences of failed government policies. A higher minimum wage is more of the same.
Consider California’s "green" energy policies that have created the highest utility rates in the nation. Instead of rolling back those mandates, it’s created a new one: A surcharge on utilities bills. making the middle class pay more, even if they don’t use more.

Will the last one out of California please tun off the lights?

Fan-favorite pizza chain flees California as state's $20-an-hour minimum wage controversy rages

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A popular pizza chain is joining other businesses in leaving California to avoid the state's high taxes and cut costs.

Blaze Pizza is relocating its headquarters from Pasadena to Atlanta which will reduce its state corporate tax rate by more than a third.

The company, which has 330 restaurants across 38 states and six countries, has claimed the relocation will spark the 'next wave of growth'.

And the hits keep rolling in:

San Francisco McDonald’s shutters after 30 years in latest casualty of $20 minimum wage: ‘Gut-wrenching’

I’m temped to believe the minimum wage thing is just an easy out for these places that are probably leaving due to the living conditions in places like SF.

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Originally posted by jed7s9b:
I’m temped to believe the minimum wage thing is just an easy out for these places that are probably leaving due to the living conditions in places like SF.

All of the above. The wage hike, misbehaving teenagers, tenant fee's, all resulting in the shut-down.

That mall (oldest on the West Coast) has been changing all their storefronts and remodeling everything lately. The neighborhood is solid and far away from the dystopia of downtown, however on the other side is a large RV encampment from the mall to Lake Merced, next to SF State.