Denver Mayor Mike Johnston floats 20% service charge to tackle restaurant woes

Denver Gazette ^ | 2-26-25 | Deborah Grigsby

[dynachrome]

Marxist mayor destroys restaurant business.

[CodeToad]

Mikey the Moron.

[dynachrome]

Add 20% to your dinner bill and increase business? Yeah that’s the ticket.

[BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan]

To paraphrase Rush Limbaugh (or anyone else with common sense)... why not 40%? or 60%

[Red Badger]

Yes, adding 20% to the meal will definitely increase business.....................ELSEWHERE.....................

[jimfree]

He’s trying to boost restaurant business in the surrounding cities.

[wny]

my daughter moved to Denver 8 years ago. I visit 2x a year. The last few years the degradation is apparent....and it’s accelerating....she’s making plans to leave...

[MNJohnnie]

Dear US women and homosexuals

Please stop voting for total moron political candidates just because they are “pretty”.

[griswold3]

That’s about as good as taxing the rich to increase revenues.

[sevlex]

Raise the price of a restaurant meal by 20%? Yeah, that’ll increase business.

This putz is a complete moron.

[gunnut]

The restaurants just outside the city limits will love this.

[dp0622]

YES..because here in NYC I haven’t slashed my UBER orders by 90 percent!!

And that’s not an exaggeration...that bills I get the UBER puts up to “increased labor expenses” or however they put it is so prohibitive, that I actually get off the couch and go pick up what I want.

Besides the discount meals at the body killing fast food places I like, everything else is a fortune.

I started eaton salmon from the store because it’s still cheaper than restaurant food is now.

They have made me resort to eating healthy sometimes!

[rlmorel]

It is already stupidly expensive to eat out. Crazy. I used to eat out all the time. Loved it. Now? I cannot justify it. And after raising the minimum wage, they want to make it even more expensive.

Hard to believe, but this is how Leftists roll.

[READINABLUESTATE]

Create a problem, fix it by creating a bigger problem, repeat as necessary.

[PeterPrinciple]

He didn’t say whether they are on board. He also did not discuss if increasing people’s dinner costs would decrease restaurant visits.

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of course not............................

[ansel12]

Universal groans heard, from literally everyone.

[lgjhn23]

It’s a debilitating, chronic, no-cure mental disease.....
They belong in a padded cell in an asylum, NOT in government in any capacity.

[Resolute Conservative]

Once again proves that government screws up everything it touches.

[Leaning Right]

> and then tax it <

There it is. Like liberals everywhere, Mayor Johnston doesn’t really care about small businesses. It’s all about raking in more tax money to fund their stupid projects.

[pepsi_junkie]

Johnston has incurred the ire of some local restauranteurs, who this month penned a letter expressing their frustrations with the city for everything from public safety worries and negative perceptions of downtown to parking and infrastructure needs.

His solution to the city letting the downtown go to hell: force restaurants to drastically raise prices! That will solve the problem of people having a reason to even consider going down there.