Posted on 08/22/2017 5:12:08 PM PDT by Pontiac
A customer dining at D.C.’s Oceanaire restaurant noticed an unusual line at the bottom of his receipt: “Due to the rising costs of doing business in this location, including costs associated with higher minimum wage rates, a 3% surcharge has been added to your total bill.” Brian, who asked The Washington Post to use only his first name to avoid conflicts with his employer, was surprised to see the additional charge. He snapped a picture and sent it to local blog Popville, which posted a picture of his receipt. The outraged comments started rolling in.
“Just raise prices if you need to, don’t try to slip this in under the radar and then pretty much blame [it] on employees who need to make a living!” wrote one commenter. “I have no problem paying high prices to support better wages, but I do have a major problem with this sort of deceptive business practice,” said another. A third put it succinctly: “Take your political statement and shove it.”
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Okay now I get it.
LOL, what idiots, it is the opposite of “deceptive business practices” — jacking up the prices without explanation, THAT would be the deception, whichis what the Leftards want. Letting customers KNOW why they are paying 3% more, that is transparency NOT deception.
Lefties don’t like it when you itemize how much their free stuff costs.
All local liberals should just go ahead and pay for everyone.
That’s the spirit, liberals!!! Go for it!!
Ok, I must be really thick because I just don’t see how being transparent and showing customers WHY prices are increasing is in anyway underhanded or being sneaky.
I don’t mind it if they are up front with a big sign on the front of the menu telling that the $10 is really $10.30. But sneaking it in afterwards is crooked.
I would be much more inclined to defend the owner, if the statement were just “cost of raising wages per legal requirements”, or something similar.
What he has is not really defining anything.
Far too nebulous. I agree, this is not a good thing to have on a bill.
This is pretty common with the SeattLunatics. Snowflakes gotta snowflake.
“deceptive”? Idiot liberals. They just hated paying the higher rate for demanding $15 minimum wage.
I feel that 10% is reasonable on a straight up business deal
I generally give 20% To folks that work for pennys.
Look closely at the receipt...there’s a space for the customer to enter a tip and do some corrective/subtractive math to complete the transaction. Maybe even leave their own comment about why they subtracted 3% from the tip to offset the 3% surcharge.
Then there is the Fee Fee, it’s pretty standard.
There shouldn’t be any problem with showing the customers the consequences of their/or their representative’s voting patterns.
Read the whole article and you will see that they did have signs posted and on the menu.
This being the Wash Post they don’t bother to mention that until way down in the article.
I give 50% to the girls at the VFW
“Ok, I must be really thick because I just don’t see how being transparent and showing customers WHY prices are increasing is in anyway underhanded or being sneaky.”
Liberals thanks to their MSM pr thugs have never had to face the reality of their liberalism until the internet and Trump came along.
Now, when a business owner documents the cost of liberalism, they go nuts.
I personally wouldn’t pay it. If it is not noted on the menu and is not a “tax”, then I would delete it and let them argue about it.
I always wanted gasoline companies to build a pump which displayed the total amount of taxes paid in every sale. I think even Californians would be outraged.
While this may be true for some things in a general sense most do not behave this way. When you see items that are essentially the same in some store but with a price difference most will buy the cheaper item even if you know it was made in slave like conditions.
Adolf Coors used to show his employees how much government cost them.
How? Every Friday, you went to window 1 to collect your wages. You then had to go to window 2 to pay your income tax “withholding.” At window 3 you paid the Soc Sec tax, and at window 4, your State tax...etc.
Don’t worry, a sleazy liberal judge shut it down and stopped Coors from being so mean to his poor workers. It was just too cruel to punish them with the truth.
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