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:
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
Glad to hear it worked out.
Thanks, I was glad too. But I would gladly have walked rather than absorb unforeseeable expenses just because they demanded something that wasn’t even relevant, and at my cost. The only one time another customer asked for special insurance when a rate/quote had been set, they just assumed I was going to charge them for it.
I think they ought to be paid piece work... that is, according to how many cruddy tattoos they have! :)
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