{"id":8960,"date":"2026-05-14T12:47:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=8960"},"modified":"2026-05-14T12:47:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:47:23","slug":"goodbye-to-five-guys-the-popular-burger-chain-just-announced-its-shutting-down-these-california-stores-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=8960","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye to Five Guys: The popular burger chain just announced it\u2019s shutting down these California stores \u2014 here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In cities like Whittier, City of Industry, Merced, and Hanford, the news arrived not as a rumor, but as a final notice: doors are closing, and they won\u2019t reopen. Fifty-five workers, from crew to managers, are losing more than a paycheck; they\u2019re losing a routine, a community, a place where they spent nights, weekends, and milestones. No transfers. No safety net. Just an ending.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Behind the scenes, the story is bigger than one burger chain. Soaring rents, higher food costs, and California\u2019s rising fast-food minimum wage have collided with customers who simply can\u2019t afford to eat out as often. Five Guys isn\u2019t collapsing, but it is retreating, store by store, as the economics of a \u201cquick bite\u201d stop making sense. For many Californians, these closures feel like another reminder that even small comforts now come with a painful price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In cities like Whittier, City of Industry, Merced, and Hanford, the news arrived not as a rumor, but as a final notice: doors are closing, and they won\u2019t reopen. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8962,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8960\/revisions\/8962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}