Thanks, ObamaCare, for making pizza more expensive (New York)

New York Post ^ | December 2, 2015 | Steve Cuozzo

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The owners of popular Brooklyn pizza restaurant Franny’s have begun adding a 3 percent surcharge to every check to cover the cost of employees’ Affordable Care Act benefits. (Restaurateurs with 50 or more full-time staffers must provide coverage by 2016 or be fined up to $2,000 per employee.)

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There is an "Editor's Note" attached to the bottom of the article.

[napscoordinator]

Pizza is really about the cheapest meal you can eat. I doubt anyone will notice an increase on cheap already. Use a company that will have a noticeable effect.

[KarlInOhio]

Feinberg and Stephens, no Tea Party types, fear they'll be seen as objecting to ObamaCare. ... Stephens says, "Never has my business been confronted with a $200,000 bill" - their ObamaCare costs. "It's a great law that we just can't afford," she says.

Face it lady, you are one of the evil one-percenters in the world of Obama.

[butlerweave]

Abortion On Toast

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Pizza is really about the cheapest meal you can eat. I doubt anyone will notice an increase on cheap already. Use a company that will have a noticeable effect.

Lol! Exactly. That was about the worst example one could pick. A slice of pizza in NYC is typically around $2.50! 3% of that is 8 cents!

[butlerweave]

I heard that a slice of NYC pizza can feed a family of 4 for a week

[Prov1322]

"It's a great law that we just can't afford," she says.

Liberal (non)Logic on full display.

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A family of mice maybe.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

It’s cheap because they are no longer using pure Mozzarella cheese and you’re lucky if you can find a pie with real tomato in the sauce. I can only dream with fond remembrance of a pizza place we used to frequent back in the 60’s.

[boycott]

Didn’t McDonald’s and some others get an exemption from Obamacare?

How is that fair to smaller businesses?

[ETL]

It’s hard to find any of the good, quality ethnic food from the old days. Pizza, meatball heroes, knishes, corned beef/pastrami sandwiches, quality deli heroes on genuine Italian bread, etc.

[ETL]

I can only dream with fond remembrance of a pizza place we used to frequent back in the 60's.

I was born and raised on New York City's Lower East Side in the 50s and 60s, before we moved to a largely Italian section of Queens in 1970. There were so many excellent pizzerias around then. Nowadays, fur-get-bout-it! Hardly any good ones.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

Big sigh!!!

One thing I miss from living in the Chicago area were the great old Polish smorgasbord’s they had. Salivating all over myself and my keyboa . . . ZAPPPPP!!!!

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“Pizza is really about the cheapest meal you can eat.”

Depends. There are now a fair number of wood-fired genuine-type Neapolitan pizza places that charge 15-19 dollars for a personal pizza.

[Rummyfan]

Obamacare! Is there anything it can’t do*?

*: Screw up....

[Lazamataz]

Stop excusing the confiscation. Stop excusing the cost.