Apizza chain shuttered some of its California locations before the state boosted the minimum wage for fast food workers earlier this month.
Mod Pizza, which has 500 locations nationwide, closed five shops in the state at the end of March, according to local Fox affiliate KMPH.
Those shops were among the over two dozen locations that the company closed across the nation.
The company did not specify a reason, but workers in Clovis, whose shop abruptly closed, told the outlet they suspected that the California closures had to do with the new law that took effect in April,
“It just kind of seemed like the right timing, two weeks before all of the fast food locations in California got that increase that we closed,” a Mod Pizza employee, who asked to remain anonymous, told KMPH.
FOX Business reached out to Mod Pizza for comment.
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