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Anyone eaten here yet?
NACl H2O Luvr
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Now on your restaurant bill: Obamacare fee
Several restaurants in a Florida chain are asking customers to help foot the bill for Obamacare.
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."
continue reading here: http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/27/news/economy/obamacare-restaurants/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
Several restaurants in a Florida chain are asking customers to help foot the bill for Obamacare.
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."
continue reading here: http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/27/news/economy/obamacare-restaurants/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
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(Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Former Mini Mart Magnate
I am just here for my amusement.
This thread is NOT ABOUT POLITICS!!! we have a forum for that.
Thank You.
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:rotflmao
:applause Good one Calusa
And the problem with them doing that is what, exactly?
:rotflmao
Yes it is. This thread is nothing but political. The restaurant is making a political statement about the ACA and so are you.
Former Mini Mart Magnate
I am just here for my amusement.
Nothing, if that is what they wish to do.
Former Mini Mart Magnate
I am just here for my amusement.
:liar
:huh did their calculator break? .020 ain't 1% of the 21.15 subtotal :huh
Good hunting grounds on weekend nights,however
Oh, I get it! The less than 1% surcharge went to informing customers they were going to charge a less then 1% surcharge.
Now I confused.
:hairraiser
This way they collect the 1% and don't pay the 6% state sales tax on it. Sounds rather shady.
You paid $6.49 for a chilly cheese dog?
did you see the receipt? That ain't no 1% unless you attended the Bush fuzzy math class....just sayin'