Ohio hamburger chain says insurance reform will bite into profits [White Castle, IHoP endangered]

Cleveland.com ^ | 07/04/10 | Sabrina Eaton

[I still care]

It’s the steaming with the onions. They deal them out like cards along the griddle and then layer the buns on top after dipping onions along them.

I can’t stand this. I’m getting hungry for them just thinking about it. I live in FL now, I only get bellybombers when I go back up north.

[GailA]

Yuk, they can’t come any where near being like the fresh ones. My mom back in the 50’s use to work for White Castle so we had plenty of them growing up. There is ONE White Castle in Nashville I think.

[KeyLargo]

This is going around e-mails. Any truth to it?

” Starting in 2011—next year—the W-2 tax form sent by your employer will be
increased to show the value of whatever health insurance you are provided.
It doesn’t matter if you’re retired. Your gross income WILL go up by the amount
of insurance your employer paid for. So you’ll be required to pay taxes on a larger
sum of money that you actually received. Take the tax form you just finished for
2009 and see what $15,000.00 or $20,000.00 additional gross income does to
your tax debt. That’s what you’ll pay next year. For many it puts you into a
much higher bracket. This is how the government is going to buy insurance for
fifteen (15) percent that don’t have insurance and it’s only part of the tax increases,
but it’s not really a “tax increase” as such, it a redefinition of your taxable income.”

[Gondring]

Little.

[uptoolate]

I’m 6 weeks removed from Chicago. Moved to Fort Worth area. I am going through withdrawals. I usually would eat them at least twice a month.....kind of like a ‘cleansing’ ritual.

[KeyLargo]

ok

[RikaStrom]

Is the way out to fire all your employees and take them back as private contractors? It`s been done before.

No, the government is massively cracking down on the concept of "private contractors". That way lies madness.

You have to be able to prove that the place you work with is not your only source of income, and have workers comp insurance, if you can't prove either of these things you are considered an employee of the place you are working and thereby both of you are subject to any taxes and whatnot the government would like to impose.

[Liz]

Humph......where's the glazed donut?

[Brad from Tennessee]

[There is ONE White Castle in Nashville I think.]

I’ll check it out.

[united1000]

I’m 6 weeks removed from Chicago. Moved to Fort Worth area. I am going through withdrawals. I usually would eat them at least twice a month.....kind of like a ‘cleansing’ ritual

 

I admit that I can pay for it when I do stop for some sliders, but it's worth it.

[TornadoAlley3]

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