California restaurants and businesses brace for impact as $20 minimum wage hike looms

• Some restaurants already planning layoffs and price increases ahead of minimum wage increase to $20/hr in California next month

• Increase tied to legislation passed last year and signed by Gov. Newsom

• Reports of some businesses cutting workforces or raising prices in anticipation of change

• Pizza Hut announced plans to lay off about 1,200 workers in California because of increase

• Business owners say consumers will end up paying more as result of minimum wage hike