Posted on 02/27/2014 9:02:57 AM PST by Olog-hai
In addition to being handed a menu when they arrive, customers at Gator’s Dockside restaurant in Lakeland are receiving a notice about a new surcharge on their checks.
The notice—presented in a single, laminated piece of paper—informs diners of a 1 percent surcharge on all food and beverage purchases. The surcharge is meant to help Gator’s Dockside fulfill its requirement under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to provide health insurance for its full-time employees. …
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Put the blame where it is due.
Gator’s is adding 3% at its Ft. Myers locations.
I wish they’d do the same when meat and produce prices go up, or energy prices go up. Instead they just jack up the price and print a new menu.
Don’t hire employees. Use B2B contractors only.
I am a life-long bookkeeper. Depending on the number of employees this restaurant has & the number of dependants those employees have, I say that 1% isn’t enough.
I would peg it between 4 & 5%.
Soon this practice will be illegal. But it is all lies. Harry Reid says so. There is nothing but rainbows, skittles, and purple drank from the heavens with Obamacare.
She said she thinks the thorough explanation presented to each diner has made the change more palatable.
BULLoney. It makes me more pissed off. I read the thread from a week or two ago about that restaurant in California doing the same thing. My first reaction was that if I was notified like this - I would get up and leave and never return.
The only way I would tolerate such a notice would be if the restaurant took a more direct and honest approach:
I wish they would break out and post the taxes we pay at the gas pump, something to read while we fill our tanks.
Did you happen to read any of the Lib comments about the story? Appears the Libs are fine with Obozocare as long as it doesn’t cost them and as long as it is a hidden charge in the menu. Someone else is always expected to pay for their wet dreams.
I think I just became a fan and will start eating there. Of course, they’ll eventually cave or be forced to comply with a new law to avoid this reality.
I think it would be even more meaningful if they printed the prices as they were on the day BO took office then just put a big red x on them and handwrite in the new price rather than printing a brand new menu. I can just imagine the number of restaurants that would be threatened with closure or by IRS if they did this though.
Sad to read the comments like:
“I just feel like shouldn’t the owner or the company pay for this? Why should I have to suffer?”
Education failure....
HAhahahahahahahahaha!!! The truth hurts, huh. This business is putting it out there for all to see rather than hiding it within increased menu prices but she's too dumb to understand that. If every company itemized customers' bills it might wake up some sheeple.
My suggestion for every company in this country. Make this a nation of sub-contractors.
At the very least, it would be a lot harder (and maybe a lot more expensive) to legally work around that. Not impossible, just not as easy as making everyone a contractor.
Joe’s BBQ contracts with WaitStaff, LLC and KitchenHelp, LLC. How WaitStaff and KitchenHelp are staffed are not Joe’s concern.
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