Posted on 08/08/2014 11:46:18 PM PDT by right-wing agnostic
This is currently the most-read story on the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s web site: “Stillwater cafe faces heat for adding ‘minimum wage fee’ to tab.” Minnesota’s Democratic legislature recently voted to raise the state’s minimum wage to $8 an hour, 75 cents more than the federal level. Naturally, that increase is leading to higher prices:
A small cafe in Stillwater has thrown itself into the big battle over Minnesota’s minimum wage increases, inundating the cafe with dozens of phone calls and online comments this week after it tacked on a 35-cent fee to meal tabs.
Oasis Cafe owner Craig Beemer said the fee is needed to offset the 75-cent wage hike that took effect Aug. 1, the first time Minnesota’s minimum wage has increased in a decade. Even with only half a dozen servers, Beemer says it will cost him $10,000 more a year to pay servers $8 an hour instead of the federal rate of $7.25 an hour.
What is unique about the Oasis is that the cafe wants its patrons to know where the higher prices are coming from:
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So these idiots are outraged because their enemies (everyone with a brain) refuses to camouflage the results of their policies??? If they think it’s what people want, what are they afraid of?
Secondly, since when do waitstaff get the normal minimum wage that applies to non-tipped employees anyway?
Hmmmm....wonder why you couldn’t pay waitstaff piece-work. Percentage of their tabs.
“Liberals have yet to realize that if you increase costs on businesses, they’ll just pass those costs on to their customers.”
On an earlier thread, the Governor said something like “this minimum wage is intended to be covered by the employer - not the consumer.” As if that doesn’t make him an idiot enough, it is Mark Dayton, of the huge clothing store in Minnesota (son, grandson, or something). One would think that he would understand that EVERYTHING in a business is paid by the consumer.
The only reason they think they aren't paying for the other vendors insurance is that (1) those guys are in a business where it's required, so they already have it and know to figure the cost in their quotes before they deliver the quote, and (2) those guys are in businesses where it's required, so they can spread the cost over all the customers. That's what I told them. First, I can't go back and spread this over all the other customers and even if I could it wouldn't be fair, because they're not the ones making me buy it, AND, what income is it that you think these other vendors have that would allow them to buy the insurance without getting the money from their customers such as yourself?
Guess what, Wade? It is "us" against "you!"
So I guess they went to a vendor that does have the insurance and you lost a customer?
Eat there and reduce the Tip you planned to leave by $.35.
The Wait Staff is already making up the difference in Salary.
No harm, no foul, unless you’re a Liberal.
If the customers are predominantly liberal, a minimum wage paycheck most likely will be more than tips would be for the normally tipped positions.
Liberals are very selfish with their taxpayer-provided incomes.
The extra insurance thing has happened to me as well. I carry $2,000,000 professional liability, injury, vehicle, etc.
For a $5,000 job it isn’t worth it if they insist that I have $5 million. That is pretty rare though. When it does come up I just cross it out, put $2 million in and initial it.
I did pass along an special insurance cost (Marine/Water) to one client with their approval once. And for a two-day job, but you have to pay for the entire year.
And some customers are worth not having.
Duh!!..........post of the thread!!
Nope. I talked to the individual within the company who would be my customer (and who realized that the type of insurance was unnecessary), and he knocked some sense into the purchasing people.
I’d given them a fair price (without including any unnecessary insurance) and had they held firm I would have walked away rather than charitably fund their operations for them.
What just slayed me though, was that they thought there was a difference between “them paying” for my insurance and “me paying” for it.
Limbs believe they can have their cake and yours too.
Please, show me a business that does not pass on increased costs to the customer. Correction - show me a business THAT IS STILL IN BUSINESS that does not pass on increased costs to the customer.
My shop customers understand that if I have to pay more to get a sweater from a wholesaler, they will have to pay more to get it from me. However, they also understand that if I get an incredible deal, they will get an incredible deal, too. That’s how it works if you want to stay in business and not lose your shirt.
If there is some fantasy land out there where business owners can continue to “absorb” cost increases and still be profitable, without having to increase the cost to the consumer, let me know. I’ll move there tomorrow.
Abolish withholding taxes.
Everyone with a job should have to cut a check to the US Treasury once a quarter!
Don't like it? Already spent it? Remember in November!
Limbs >>> Libs
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