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What the Fork?! There are 400,000+ reasons making everything more expensive. Aren't you fed up? Find out more at calrest.org/wtf

WTF?! Billboards in Sacramento International Airport (SMF) & Ads Call Out California Lawmakers for Making Everything More Expensive 
The California Restaurant Association launches "What The Fork!" campaign to bring attention to 400,000+ regulations forcing higher consumer prices + skyrocketing costs and liability for neighborhood restaurants

SACRAMENTO, CA – Aren’t you fed up?! Today, the California Restaurant Association (CRA) launches its “What The Fork?!” campaign, calling out lawmakers at the state and local levels for forcing neighborhood restaurants to make impossible choices to survive California’s expensive onslaught of regulations. 

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Message from CRA President + CEO Jot Condie on heightened immigration enforcement

“We cannot overstate the vital contributions immigrants provide our state. They are the lifeblood of our industry. The restaurant community has been rattled this week by increasingly disruptive immigration enforcement activities that strike fear in immigrant families regardless of their status. Immigrants power our workforce and have an enormous positive impact on our economy. We would not be the 4th largest economy in the world without them. We will continue our efforts with our National Restaurant Association partners to secure critical federal immigration reform.”

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FixPAGA Coalition Statement on SB 310 Being Moved to Inactive File

SACRAMENTO, CA — The Fix PAGA Coalition — represented by the California Restaurant Association, California Chamber of Commerce, California New Car Dealers Association, Western Growers Association, and California Retailers Association — issued the following statement on Senate Bill 310 being moved to the Senate inactive file