Posted on 08/07/2014 1:59:23 PM PDT by TurboZamboni
Last Friday, for the first time in nearly a decade, Minnesota's minimum wage went up. The first in a series of incremental hikes brought the wage floor from $6.15 to $8 per hour for relatively large companies, and from $5.25 to $6.50 for small ones.
As you'd expect, some businesses aren't thrilled about that -- especially bars and restaurants, as the new law doesn't include a tip exception.
But the Oasis Cafe in Stillwater is generating a stir for transparently including a "Min Wage Fee" on all customer checks:
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.citypages.com ...
I would be tempted to list a tip, subtract the minimum wage fee, and give the remainder as a tip.
a good idea. let the customer know that the new higher costs of goods and services are the fault of the government and not the proprietor or even the workers or the free marketplace that once was in USA
The biggest hidden tax in our lives is the exorbitantly high cost of diesel fuel. The truckers who deliver most everything we consume are captives - “Either pay up or starve.” The cost is then simply - and invisibly - passed on to us.
I remember when Congress (especially Algore) were mad phone companies put the USF fee on phone bills.
http://www.startribune.com/business/270235821.html
“We believe that the industry is overreacting,” Wade Luneburg of the MN State Council of UNITE HERE Unions told the Star Tribune this week. “Putting [minimum wage] fees on tickets and passing the cost on to consumers directly is strange at best, and creates an ‘us against them’ mentality while ordering dinner.”
IOW, leftists are outraged when gullible taxpayers find out what Marx Dayton and his band of robbers have done and who did it to them.
Inflation is every politican’s favorite hidden tax.
They just blame in on “the economy” and/or “my predecessor”.
Same idea for hiding all the gasoline taxes in a single combined price
They should post this policy so that customers can see it prior to getting service. That way those who choose not to partake may go elsewhere.
If not what’s to say they can’t just add any kind of fee without telling the customer first?
Fight global warming fee?
Fight the war on women fee?
etc.....
It would be nice if companies would put notices on their product of what the price “would be” if it weren’t for the diesel tax.
Xcel Energy should have to disclose all their fees for “fighting global warming” and the mandatory wind energy mandate fees.
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