Posted on 10/07/2014 12:16:13 PM PDT by bestintxas
Next time you eat out at a fancy restaurant, don't be surprised if, at the end of your meal, you spot an unfamiliar item on your tab a surcharge to pay for Obamacare.
Diners at high-end restaurants such as Melisse, AOC, and a dozen others in the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas have noticed a 3 percent surcharge for employee healthcare tacked on to their bills, and the Los Angeles Times reports that some of the customers are none too happy about it. One diner complained in an online blog, "It's basically management saying 'Obamacare made me do it.' If you want to offset costs, try turning up the thermostat. There's your 3%! Now please pay your workers' health insurance and hush."
Better get used to it. "Once it starts you are going to see other segments in the industry, whether coffee shops or ice cream shops, dip their toe in if they see it's manageable and customers do not revolt," Jot Condie of the California Restaurant Association told the Times.
Josh Loeb, co-owner of Milo & Olive and Rustic Canyon, told the Times, "We want our staff to have healthcare. It's not because we support Obama or don't support Obama, or are Democrats or are not Democrats."
Restaurants have considered increasing the price of menu items to pay the cost of providing healthcare, but this would not take into account rent and liability insurance, which would require increasing menu costs by more than 3 percent to make the same amount of money as a simple surcharge
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I said, two feet tall.
So please educate me? It appears that’s the only option you have and you’ll need to harvest your own seeds and not pay for electricity or water.
Clearly you’ve never team a business if you think costs are the same for 1 person workin 20 hours compared to 4 people working 5 hours.
What part of this do you not understand.
There are still restaurants that will adjust the hours of their employees thereby avoiding the costs associated with Obamacare.
And no, just because you hire more employees who end up working the same amount of hours, does not mean that the costs involved will match the costs involved with paying for their healthcare.
If it does, as an employer, you’re doing something wrong.
Lol. If you only knew ;-)
Go back and read what I wrote and tell me what makes you think to ask me just a dumb ass question.
The solution to this is pretty straightforward. Many restaurants put a line item ok their menus saying that they tack on a surcharge (18% usually) for larger parties (6 or more).
Restaurants should do this for their healthcare costs. State it on the menu, have it appear as a line item on the bill. Upfront and transparent.
I would like to see businesses have it posted on the door or menu that there is % surcharge to pay for health care.
Then before utilizing services one could decide if paying the extra % was worth the service being provided.
The ObolaCare surcharge is voluntary? Really? If so I agree with you. If not, then I applaud the establishment for informing me, who the hell is to blame for the increase in costs.
“Restaurants should do this for their healthcare costs. State it on the menu, have it appear as a line item on the bill. Upfront and transparent.”
Good idea.
“I would like to see businesses have it posted on the door or menu that there is % surcharge to pay for health care.”
All for it.
Although I tell people all the time..when overhead goes up...costs are passed on to the consumer.
Period.
Fair enough...............
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