Posted on 08/09/2014 10:59:48 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A Minnesota café is stirring up controversy by adding a 35¢ “minimum wage fee.”
Minnesota implemented a minimum wage hike from $7.25 to $8 on Aug. 1, so Oasis Café owner Craig Beemer calculated what it would cost per ticket to accommodate the increase. …
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Why just show the extra new cost? He should show (as every good business owner should) the cost breakouts for all the regulations and mandates that it takes to provide the service and the product?
On our pumps down here there is a sticker that lists the taxes. I take NY doesn’t have that. interesting. May be the case for NJ as well
If the restaurant would give the customers a choice;
“Please let us know if you want the cost increases hidden in the total,
OR
Would you like them listed as a separate item?
The total bill will be identical”.
It depends what state you are in. Here in CA they are paid minimum wage or better (plus of course tips), and CA minimum wage is higher than the Federal minimum, currently $9.00 an hour.
I think that this is a great idea. In this era of computers and very fast,low-cost of operation thermal printers, every business, no matter how small, should break out their billing this way even for the most trivial thing. That way, consumers can see what they are REALLY paying for something.
“Withholding” has hidden exactly how much of your paycheck disappears every few weeks. Direct Deposit has made that even more obscured.
What controversy?
Their costs are going up and they have to cover their costs.
What’s controversial about that?
The problem with minimum wage isn't the competition, since they have to pay the same. It's the fact that people will just cut back on how much they purchase, as in not eating out as much.
Not really, because the hourly employee is being paid by the hour — regardless of what anyone orders.
The only controversy here is the government raising the costs of business. And I don’t think that such a thing is a “right” given to the states—the federal government is supposed to guarantee the republican form of government to the states, not the socialist form of government.
“New York (maybe all states for all I know) does not permit a gas station from advertising how much of the price of gas is taxes.”
That is incredible; ridiculous!
Here’s a simple solution to that. Post a chart with broad categories, cost of gas from supplier, delivery fees, station operations and a final category called, “prohibited by law from telling you!”
I like it. Just leave it blank and let the motorist figure it out for himself.
If it were called ‘compassionate fee’, the patrons should gladly accept the charge.
the thing that go me was in the original story the owners were on vacation and would address the issue when they returned. So this struggling poor restaurant and give up a great vacation but can’t afford to pay the help! Your 35cents goes to insure next years VAC!
I opened Living Wage Coffee last week.
$10/cup.
Gross sales first week: $0
I don’t know. You don’t go into business to pay the help. You go into business to earn a return on your investment. After a while, if operating costs, like the cost of labor, increase, it eats into your return on investment. Who cares if they can AFFORD to pay more, at some point it makes more sense to buy a treasury bond or something than to bust your butt for a meager return. That, IMHO, is not good for the economy.
Why did that get to you?
Leftists are forever stuck in the 4th grade, and their knowledge of business economics comes from cartoons. They believe that store owners are like Mr. Krabs in "Spongebob" and keep all the profits in huge vaults in the back of the store.
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