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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A surcharge tacked on is a really underhand, sneaky way to charge a customer. Am already mad at airlines who do it.
IF I see that on my bill, the server gets no tip, period.
See how long it lasts.
These people are math-challenged. Of course, only the math-challenged could think that turning up the thermostat = 3% Obamacare surcharge.
You might want to bite the bullet and take one for the team. This MAY help to wake up the lofos.
I wish gas stations would post the amount of tax per gallon of gasoline.
And I wish taxes weren’t withheld from paychecks. Mark Levin said it would be one of his first initiatives if he were elected president.
“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.”
B^%$ S&^%!!
I already paid for MY health care (and NO ONE HELPED ME)... now YOU pay for YOURS!
How do I know that they are paying for the employee’s healthcare?
“A surcharge tacked on is a really underhand, sneaky way to charge a customer. Am already mad at airlines who do it. “
Why? Clearly the price of the meal has to go up to pay the added cost. It’s better that the voting consumer understands why it went up. That helps our side...
Regardless of whether a restaurant or any other business tacks on a surcharge for O-Care, you're paying for it. If they don't have a surcharge, they'll just raise their prices to cover it. At least with the surcharge, the libiots who vote for this kind of stuff get to feel it in a way that might make them question their support of such laws.
I disagree.
Either way the customers are paying for it. I want everyone to know how much.
How/why is a surcharge which is clearly identified on the bill, sneaky or underhanded? Quite frankly, restaurants that add this surcharge are doing God’s Work, pointing out to their customers, that there is no such thing as a free lunch. Healthcare isn’t free and someone has to pay for it.
Ah, we’re seeing the ‘generous’ ‘compassionate’ side of liberals. Its A OK for you to have to pay (by force if necessary) for someone elses health care but they shouldnt have to. After all liberals are great at spending other peoples cash while hoarding their own. LOL, the reality of BarryCare is being to sink in and only the happy few will be exempted. Well, no matter, liberals need a cause and this could be as good as any. LOL!
“How/why is a surcharge which is clearly identified on the bill, sneaky or underhanded?”
because a surcharge is rarely ever explained upfront.
It is only AFTER one orders a meal that does one realize the true cost of it as it is tacked on at the end.
Big diff in say sales taxes when EVERYONE knows upfront that it will be added on.
Just raising prices on the meal would be the proper thing to do.
“IF I see that on my bill, the server gets no tip, period.”
“See how long it lasts.”
Why? Do you support Obamacare? How much do you tip anyway?
if they just raised their prices across the board 3% nobody would know. “yup, just inflation and higher costs of doing business.”
people’d pay and not bitch.
The sample receipts I have seen said “ACA Surcharge”.
Unfortunately the low-infos are too low-info to know that the ACA is Obamacare.
I applaud you, that is exactly right.
If I see that surcharge, I would scratch it and leave a note saying I PAID for my healthcare you should too.
“A surcharge tacked on is a really underhand, sneaky way to charge a customer. Am already mad at airlines who do it.”
You mean like paying $25-$50 extra for any seat not in the center in economy? Thanks AA!/S
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