Restaurant Chain Charges Customers Obamacare Surcharge

[Chris_]

Restaurant Chain Charges Customers Obamacare Surcharge

A Florida group that that manages several restaurants is already banking money for when the Obamacare employer mandate takes effect in 2015, and is charging customers a 1 percent surcharge on food and drinks.

Currently only management employees of the eight Gator’s Dockside restaurants receive health insurance, but starting in December, in order to comply with the employer mandate, about 250 full-time employees will also receive health insurance, according to CNN Money.

Sandra Clark, director of operations for the Gator Group that manages the restaurants, “is not sure how much the company is spending on compliance, but estimates that it will cost $500,000 a year to extend insurance to its full-time hourly restaurant workers,” CNN Money reported. “The surcharge may bring in about $160,000 a year, she hopes.”

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[Wayne]

   Any place that does that to me will be the only time they ever do it.

[thundley4]

   Any place that does that to me will be the only time they ever do it.

Most of the time you won't know it, you'll just be charged higher prices.

[DLR Pyro]

This is what DUmmies who demand that corporations need to pay more in taxes never seem to understand.  The corporation will never pay the increased tax.  The customer will in the form of increased consumer costs to cover for the additional tax expenses.

and that's why they are called DUmmies

[DumbAss Tanker]

Most of the time you won't know it, you'll just be charged higher prices.

Exactly.  And it will be by more than the 1% this place wants to charge.

[DefiantSix]

   Any place that does that to me will be the only time they ever do it.

Not me.  I prefer a little honesty in those I do business with. Kinda like those cell providers who - rather than eating or burying the new tax - displayed the Clinton/Gore cell phone tax to provide innerwebz for schools as a separate line item on the billing statement.

[Ralph Wiggum]

A modest proposal:

I think when one arrives at a restaurant, you should self-identify whether you support Obamacare or not. 

If you support it, as a patron you should pay 25-50% above the restaurant prices. 

If you oppose Obamacare, you pay regular price.

[thundley4]

A modest proposal:

I think when one arrives at a restaurant, you should self-identify whether you support Obamacare or not. 

If you support it, as a patron you should pay 25-50% above the restaurant prices. 

If you oppose Obamacare, you pay regular price.

Democrats lie, they lie all the time.  They would just say they don't support it.

[Dori]

Exactly.  And it will be by more than the 1% this place wants to charge.

I was thinking about this.  If an item on your menu says an entrée costs $17.99 and they raised their prices, it would probably look more like $18.49. 

[FlaGator]

   Any place that does that to me will be the only time they ever do it.

I eat there all the time and a 1 percent charge to make a point about Obamacare is no big deal. .10 cent for every 10 dollars.

[vesta111]

Not me.  I prefer a little honesty in those I do business with. Kinda like those cell providers who - rather than eating or burying the new tax - displayed the Clinton/Gore cell phone tax to provide innerwebz for schools as a separate line item on the billing statement.

 

We found out about 15 years ago that a tax on land line phones was  to pay for the war that Teddy Roosevelt went into in Cuba.   What year was that ?    How many years had we paid our phone bill and never questioned the tax ?

[Purple Sage]

   Any place that does that to me will be the only time they ever do it.

I hope they all do it and put it on the bill for their customers to see.  Instead of just raising prices, every business should charge an 0care surcharge.

[Lacarnut]

Would like to see all business include the cost of Obamacare on their bill. It is a tax according to the S.C. and would just follow suit to what the government includes on your phone bill. It might cause liberals to scream foul which would be good.