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Diners at eight Gator's Dockside casual eateries are finding a 1% Affordable Care Act surcharge on their tabs, which comes to 15 cents on a typical $15 lunch tab. Signs on the door and at tables alert diners to the fee, which is also listed separately on the bill.
The Gator Group's full-time hourly employees won't actually receive health insurance until December. But the company said it implemented the surcharge now because of the compliance costs it's facing ahead of the Affordable Care Act's employer mandate kicking in in 2015.
"The costs associated with ACA compliance could ultimately close our doors," the sign reads. "Instead of raising prices on our products to generate the additional revenue needed to cover the costs of ACA compliance, certain Gator's Dockside locations have implemented a 1% surcharge on all food and beverage purchases only."
The company employs a total of 500 people, with about half working full-time. Currently only management receives health benefits, but the restaurant will have to offer coverage to all full-timers once the mandate takes effect. The fee will allow the company to continue offering full-time hours to many workers, according to Sandra Clark, the group's director of operations.
"I'm just trying to keep the employees I have that I've worked hard to train," Clark said.
Or they could hire 100 more people and bump them all to 29 hours. I'm supporting that instead.
That's actually a pretty smart idea. Offer more people some employment and let them worry about getting healthcare.
I wish I could take credit. It's pretty much going to be the norm for Fortune 500s that employ mostly unskilled workers.
There's a Florida based, restaurant chain that says 'they're only trying to get people to help foot the bill for full time employees, healthcare mandate'.
Restaurants charging Obamacare fee - Feb. 27, 2014
They're not raising prices.
They're just charging their customers more!!
What?
Don't they accomplish the same goal?
I was being sarcastic
What?
Don't they accomplish the same goal?
You're gonna be sorry you asked that.
Remember where you heard it.
That's my point about being sincere. Why not just raise the prices, rather than make an issue about charging more for ACA? It's a political statement, though the restaurant owner claims it's not.
And causing more poverty and more on food stamps......the conservatives will be crying....and crying "repeal" every day in Con gress....Or they could hire 100 more people and bump them all to 29 hours. I'm supporting that instead.
If they wouldn't have otherwise done it, why not say why they did it?
Probably already there.I don't think they list on their bills, all the causes for price increases. I'd like to see one that says, "Owner wants a trip to Hawaii".
There's a Florida based, restaurant chain that says 'they're only trying to get people to help foot the bill for full time employees, healthcare mandate'.
Restaurants charging Obamacare fee - Feb. 27, 2014
There are fewer things in life more laughably absurd and tone-deaf than the super-rich being worried about taxes.
That's my point about being sincere. Why not just raise the prices, rather than make an issue about charging more for ACA? It's a political statement, though the restaurant owner claims it's not.
There's a Florida based, restaurant chain that says 'they're only trying to get people to help foot the bill for full time employees, healthcare mandate'.
Restaurants charging Obamacare fee - Feb. 27, 2014
And causing more poverty and more on food stamps......the conservatives will be crying....and crying "repeal" every day in Con gress....
There's a Florida based, restaurant chain that says 'they're only trying to get people to help foot the bill for full time employees, healthcare mandate'.
Restaurants charging Obamacare fee - Feb. 27, 2014
And causing more poverty and more on food stamps......the conservatives will be crying....and crying "repeal" every day in Con gress....
This really got me to thinking...
McDonald's serves 7.4 billion people a day. If McDonald's would raise the price of service by one penny per customer, that would generate $704,000 per day x 365 = $256,000,000 per year to pay for their employee's health insurance. Think they could manage? I do. Think you could pay a lousy penny more??
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