Another shitty chain restaurant seeks free advertising by being douchebags

[syrenn]

Well....they can shove their breakfasts up their asses....Grand Slam style.

I usually eat locally when we go out anyway. We have a dozen Mom and Pops that serve better food thank Denny's ever will. Same with upper echelon restaurants.....Won't see me at Applebee's or Olive Garden anymore either.

Beer? we have one of the top ten brew pubs in the country about 25 minutes away....the only problem is that it's 25 minutes back home too. Coffee shops? same thing.

I'm so sick of corporate assholes running this country. They can't afford to absorb $.05/plate....or $.14/ pizza? Such bullshit, such ridiculous greed.

And you're right about the free advertising. They're thinking they are going to become the next Chick-fil-a and all these teabaggers are going to flood their restaurants and then not tip the people busting their asses to support their families.....the sad thing is.....they are probably right.

it wont just be big box restaurants doing this... its going to be the mom and pops too.

Nope, people are already moving towards more support for local mom and pops. All the business BIG business loses by being the douche bags they are is already being redirected to the true backbone of our economy, BY the true backbone of our economy: the people who work, and the small businesses owners WHO invest in the communities they operate within, rather than those THAT merely strip mine them.

And you think mom and pops with aren't going to have to increase costs to accommodate health care costs?

 

[Moonglow]

In one instance, a black Federal judge from Houston and his wife who had been traveling for 18 hours said they were forced to wait at a Denny's in Yreka, Calif., for almost an hour as white teen-agers taunted them and referred to them as "*******."


you got you some serious mother fucking racists in California, so much for tolerence from liberals.

When black folks stop at the McDonalds in McDonald county Missouri, they have fear in their eyes.

bullshit

Do you live here? You don't know how the black folks are treated here. I have. It's a sad affair.

 

[editec]

What a handy excuse it is to be able to blame Obama for the fact that management just fucked up so badly that it must lay people off.


When a ship does down the CAPTAIN, not the crew, is at fault.


Except of course if your live with your nose shoved up the ass of the masters.

Personal responsibility is not something the right wing really understands, that's clear.

 

[syrenn]

dishonorable mention:

so...


passing along the cost is passing along the cost right???


something wrong with adding on the 14 cents on as a surcharge and calling it the obamacare surcharge?

 

[thanatos144]

dishonorable mention:

so...


passing along the cost is passing along the cost right???


something wrong with adding on the 14 cents on as a surcharge and calling it the obamacare surcharge?

To them it is wrong....Cause it shows what a lie the whole thing is....They really thought Obamacare was going to be paid by the rich.....Bet you dollars to doughnuts Obama knew this would happen.....

 

[4Horsemen]

I don't eat the shitty poison from Denny's so they raises the prices all they want.

 

[Katzndogz]

it wont just be big box restaurants doing this... its going to be the mom and pops too.

Nope, people are already moving towards more support for local mom and pops. All the business BIG business loses by being the douche bags they are is already being redirected to the true backbone of our economy, BY the true backbone of our economy: the people who work, and the small businesses owners WHO invest in the communities they operate within, rather than those THAT merely strip mine them.

And you think mom and pops with aren't going to have to increase costs to accommodate health care costs?

Sure they will and they will sell out to immigrants who can import dozens of family members to work there and then, by employing only family, won't have to worry about health care costs. That will be up to the individual who will but a policy, really cheap, to file with their IRS tax forms. There just won't be any coverage. It will end up like the cheap car insurance with the company that doesn't really exist. You find that out when you get into an accident.

 

[syrenn]

I hope he knows that labor law dictates his responsibility to pay up to minimum wage for any day his servers don't make tips at least to that amount. I hope those servers know about that law.

Obviously you lived a sheltered life.

Waitresses and the like don't get minimum wage because their income is based on tips. If they get stiffed on a tab, they just get stiffed. The employer has no obligation to make up for the tips they didn't receive.

BTW they must pay taxes on 15 percent of every tab they served whether they received a tip or not.

Don't like it? Don't become a watress.

actual you have that a bit wrong....

they are charged 8%..... and only on credit card charges. Because... you cant track cash. They are supposed to be honest about cash tips declare it.

waitresses become waitress here becasue they make money hand over fist.... They get minimum wage... pulse tips. It was not uncommon for a waitress in our place ( for the slow ones ) to walk out with 5-6 hundred bucks cash a every single night

 

[syrenn]

dishonorable mention:

so...


passing along the cost is passing along the cost right???


something wrong with adding on the 14 cents on as a surcharge and calling it the obamacare surcharge?

To them it is wrong....Cause it shows what a lie the whole thing is....They really thought Obamacare was going to be paid by the rich.....Bet you dollars to doughnuts Obama knew this would happen.....

Would that be dunkin donuts or krispy kreme?


oohh... evil big box doughnuts.

 

[4Horsemen]

Papa John's is the first step.

Wait until 2013, you can expect a shitload more businesses opting out of OslummerCare

 

[Luddly Neddite]

If it isn't all about 'free' healthcare, what is it about?

Free healthcare should be a natural mandate for any wealthy country anyways. Who the fuck should be allowed to capitalize on the bad health of their fellow citizens?

No such thing as free, what is wrong with informing the consumer the reason for the increase.

People piss me off, they want everyone else to pay for free shit. Offering free healthcare to employees cost. Why should a business eat all the cost. Many companies will need to raise prices to offset losses.

Pisses me off that I have been forced to pay for lazy leech rw's who refuse to buy their own health insurance and it pisses off rw's that they'll have to pay their own bills.

As we ALL know, these business owners are lying about having to offset added costs of ObamaCare. But, we also know that won't stop rw's from believing the lies and passing the lies on to others.

 

[Moonglow]

I hope he knows that labor law dictates his responsibility to pay up to minimum wage for any day his servers don't make tips at least to that amount. I hope those servers know about that law.

Obviously you lived a sheltered life.

Waitresses and the like don't get minimum wage because their income is based on tips. If they get stiffed on a tab, they just get stiffed. The employer has no obligation to make up for the tips they didn't receive.

BTW they must pay taxes on 15 percent of every tab they served whether they received a tip or not.

Don't like it? Don't become a watress.

actual you have that a bit wrong....

they are charged 8%..... and only on credit card charges. Because... you cant track cash. They are supposed to be honest about cash tips declare it.

waitresses become waitress here becasue they make money hand over fist.... They get minimum wage... pulse tips. It was not uncommon for a waitress in our place ( for the slow ones ) to walk out with 5-6 hundred bucks cash a every single night

When Reagan started the tax on tips he made it to where you are taxed based on your sales of food and drink. In clubs it is up to the honesty of the one being tipped. Yet the checks or menu didn't state that the tips were bing taxed by reagan.

 

[Meathead]

Free healthcare should be a natural mandate for any wealthy country anyways. Who the fuck should be allowed to capitalize on the bad health of their fellow citizens?

No such thing as free, what is wrong with informing the consumer the reason for the increase.

People piss me off, they want everyone else to pay for free shit. Offering free healthcare to employees cost. Why should a business eat all the cost. Many companies will need to raise prices to offset losses.

Pisses me off that I have been forced to pay for lazy leech rw's who refuse to buy their own health insurance and it pisses off rw's that they'll have to pay their own bills.

As we ALL know, these business owners are lying about having to offset added costs of ObamaCare. But, we also know that won't stop rw's from believing the lies and passing the lies on to others.

An indignant parasite! What's next?

 

[Foxfyre]

Deduct 5% from all tips based on the total, and tell your server why. Actually, it would work the same way anyway, as people have less money to spend, they'll eat out less and tip less when they do, but telling the server why is more poignant.

no... that is punishing the server. Their tip should be exactly the same as what you would have been giving them before.


An obamacare surcharge should be added to the bill.... instead raising prices. That way people will know why their bill has on up.

This particular chain is raising the price. But they are also giving the customer the option of offsetting the increase by paying 5% less in gratuities--many restaurants automatically add the gratuity to the bill especially for groups. That way the restaurant can continue to serve the same food at the same price without having to lay off staff or cut back on quality or service. And I think most customers probably would not 'punish the server' in this case.

It is a marketing strategy that gets the point across to the customer that it isn't the restaurant's idea to raise prices and to be clear about why they are forced to do so.

 

[syrenn]

Papa John's is the first step.

Wait until 2013, you can expect a shitload more businesses opting out of OslummerCare

unions have been on the forefront of opting out...... they started asking for the exemptions...as soon as obamacare was on the table.


so what does that tell you?

So far, here is the list of union inductees to the Do As We Say, Not As We Do Club:

Bricklayers Local 1 of MD, VA and DC
International Brotherhood of Trade Unions Health and Welfare Fund – Local 713
Local 1102 Amalgamated Welfare Fund
Local 1102 Health & Benefit Fund
Local 1102 Welfare Fund– Lerner Employees
Local 338 Affiliated Benefit Funds
Operating Engineers Local 835 Health and Welfare Fund
Retail, Wholesale & Dept. Store Union Local 1034 Welfare Fund
United Food and Commercial Workers Union in Mount Laurel, New Jersey
Indiana Teamsters Health Benefits Fund
Service Employees International Union Local 1 Cleveland Welfare Fund
Southern CA Pipe Trades Trust Fund
Teamsters Local 522 Welfare Fund Roofers Division
Texas Carpenters and Millwrights Health and Welfare Fund
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1445 New Hampshire
Amalgamated National Health Fund
Plumbers and Pipefitters Local No. 630 Welfare Fund
United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1000
1199SEIU Greater New York Benefit Fund
Cleveland Bakers Teamsters
DC Cement Masons Welfare Fund
Indiana Teamsters Health Benefits Fund
Laundry and Dry Cleaning Workers Local No. 52
Social Service Employees Union Local 371
United Food and Commercial Workers Union (Mount Laurel, NJ)
United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1459
United Food and Commercial Workers and Participating Employers Interstate Health and Welfare Fund
Laborers’ International Union of North America Local Union No. 616 Health and Welfare Plan
Service Employees Benefit Fund
UFCW Allied Trade Health & Welfare Trust
United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1995
IBEW No.915
Asbestos Workers Local 53 Welfare Fund
Florida Trowel Trades
Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 123 Welfare Fund
UFCW Local 227
UFCW Maximus Local 455
Local 25 SEIU
UFCW Local 1262
Local 802 Musicians Health Fund
Greater Metropolitan Hotel
Local 17 Hospitality Benefit Fund
GS-ILA
Health and Welfare Benefit System
I.U.P.A.T.
Transport Workers
UFT Welfare Fund
PMPS-ILA
PS-ILA

Waivers Double to 222 as More Unions ‘Opt Out’ of ObamaCare*|*LaborUnionReport.com

CNSNews.com) – The United Federation of Teachers (UFT), the union representing New York City’s public school teachers, is the largest beneficiary of a waiver from one of the provisions in the health-care law signed by President Barack Obama last year.

The UFT is a chapter of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), which spent $1.9 million on the election of President Barack Obama in 2008. The UFT is also an affiliate of the New York State United Teachers, which spent $46,139 in independent expenditures on the election of Obama.

The health care law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, requires that annual caps on how much an insurance plan will pay in benefits for an enrollee in any given year must be eliminated by 2014. Under the law, the Department of Health and Human Services is now phasing the coverage limits out. In 2011, yearly caps can be no less than $750,000; in 2012, they can be no less than $1.25 million; and in 2013, they can be no less than $2 million in 2013.

The waivers granted to the UFT locals exempt them from having to comply with the phasing out of the annual benefits caps. A total of 351,000 enrollees are in the UFT’s health insurance plan, the UTF Welfare Fund.

New York City Teachers Union Is Largest Recipient of Obamacare Waiver; Parent AFT Union Spent $1.9 Million on Obama Election | CNS News

 

[syrenn]

Obviously you lived a sheltered life.

Waitresses and the like don't get minimum wage because their income is based on tips. If they get stiffed on a tab, they just get stiffed. The employer has no obligation to make up for the tips they didn't receive.

BTW they must pay taxes on 15 percent of every tab they served whether they received a tip or not.

Don't like it? Don't become a watress.

actual you have that a bit wrong....

they are charged 8%..... and only on credit card charges. Because... you cant track cash. They are supposed to be honest about cash tips declare it.

waitresses become waitress here becasue they make money hand over fist.... They get minimum wage... pulse tips. It was not uncommon for a waitress in our place ( for the slow ones ) to walk out with 5-6 hundred bucks cash a every single night

When Reagan started the tax on tips he made it to where you are taxed based on your sales of food and drink. In clubs it is up to the honesty of the one being tipped. Yet the checks or menu didn't state that the tips were bing taxed by reagan.

bingo.... honesty. They are only taxed on tips charged to a credit card. Cash... trust me... they all walk out with it and never declare it. There is not way to prove what they were given... or if they were given anything at all. All they have to do is claim they were stiffed.

 

[rightwinger]

Deduct 5% from all tips based on the total, and tell your server why. Actually, it would work the same way anyway, as people have less money to spend, they'll eat out less and tip less when they do, but telling the server why is more poignant.

no... that is punishing the server. Their tip should be exactly the same as what you would have been giving them before.


An obamacare surcharge should be added to the bill.... instead raising prices. That way people will know why their bill has on up.

This particular chain is raising the price. But they are also giving the customer the option of offsetting the increase by paying 5% less in gratuities--many restaurants automatically add the gratuity to the bill especially for groups. That way the restaurant can continue to serve the same food at the same price without having to lay off staff or cut back on quality or service. And I think most customers probably would not 'punish the server' in this case.

It is a marketing strategy that gets the point across to the customer that it isn't the restaurant's idea to raise prices and to be clear about why they are forced to do so.

It is punishing your employees. They are holding up servers and saying...if you don't like the prices, take it out on the servers

How do you stay in business if that is the way you handle a fluctuating marketplace? When the price of food goes up, do you surcharge? When your rent or taxes go up, do you surcharge? When business is down in the offseason, do you surcharge? When a competitor opens up down the street, do you surcharge?

This is not about compensating for a new business cost. It is petty and vindictive against your customers and your employees

Not good business practice

 

[syrenn]

Deduct 5% from all tips based on the total, and tell your server why. Actually, it would work the same way anyway, as people have less money to spend, they'll eat out less and tip less when they do, but telling the server why is more poignant.

no... that is punishing the server. Their tip should be exactly the same as what you would have been giving them before.


An obamacare surcharge should be added to the bill.... instead raising prices. That way people will know why their bill has on up.

This particular chain is raising the price. But they are also giving the customer the option of offsetting the increase by paying 5% less in gratuities--many restaurants automatically add the gratuity to the bill especially for groups. That way the restaurant can continue to serve the same food at the same price without having to lay off staff or cut back on quality or service. And I think most customers probably would not 'punish the server' in this case.

It is a marketing strategy that gets the point across to the customer that it isn't the restaurant's idea to raise prices and to be clear about why they are forced to do so.

right... this guy did it wrong. He needed to follow SF's lead getting the point across....

At it onto the bottom of the bill flat call the 5% increase an obamacare surcharge.

The prices stay the same... the servers get the tips they get... and everyone knows why their bill is higher.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Free healthcare should be a natural mandate for any wealthy country anyways. Who the fuck should be allowed to capitalize on the bad health of their fellow citizens?

No such thing as free, what is wrong with informing the consumer the reason for the increase.

People piss me off, they want everyone else to pay for free shit. Offering free healthcare to employees cost. Why should a business eat all the cost. Many companies will need to raise prices to offset losses.

Pisses me off that I have been forced to pay for lazy leech rw's who refuse to buy their own health insurance and it pisses off rw's that they'll have to pay their own bills.

As we ALL know, these business owners are lying about having to offset added costs of ObamaCare. But, we also know that won't stop rw's from believing the lies and passing the lies on to others.

So, you think it is all the rich right wingers clogging up the ER?

Sorry, go to any ER, it is full of illegals & indigents, not the Koch brothers you asshat.

 

[Foxfyre]

Obviously you lived a sheltered life.

Waitresses and the like don't get minimum wage because their income is based on tips. If they get stiffed on a tab, they just get stiffed. The employer has no obligation to make up for the tips they didn't receive.

BTW they must pay taxes on 15 percent of every tab they served whether they received a tip or not.

Don't like it? Don't become a watress.

actual you have that a bit wrong....

they are charged 8%..... and only on credit card charges. Because... you cant track cash. They are supposed to be honest about cash tips declare it.

waitresses become waitress here becasue they make money hand over fist.... They get minimum wage... pulse tips. It was not uncommon for a waitress in our place ( for the slow ones ) to walk out with 5-6 hundred bucks cash a every single night

When Reagan started the tax on tips he made it to where you are taxed based on your sales of food and drink. In clubs it is up to the honesty of the one being tipped. Yet the checks or menu didn't state that the tips were bing taxed by reagan.

The tax on tips were payroll taxes that went into the social security fund, however, and affected only those businesses in which gratuities are involve rather than the cost of almost everything we do or buy as Obamacare does. And those taxes did raise restaurant prices slightly, but not so noticably as the costs of Obamacare will do. Obamacare is one of the most insidious, far reaching, and oppressive taxes ever imposed on the American people. The only thing that would be worse is if they ever do pass Cap & Trade.