Restaurants are adding labor surcharges to help offset minimum wage increases

[Markle]

They're also a helluva lot poorer than the poor in other MODERN countries.

Please show us your reliable source and link.

Thank you!

 

[Markle]

Costco is known for its better-than average pay of employees.

Actually, that is FAKE NEWS. There pay is comparable to other similar businesses.

Costco Wholesale Company Hourly Pay | PayScale

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

. Only difference is everyone in the UK is coverecovered

yes UK is socialist and thus has 65% of our standard of living and would have 40% if they could not copy our capitalist inventions. Do you understand?

Bailing out the rich and then letting it trickle down, does seem to have some effect.

Nothing in Nature Is Where It Belongs Unless Man Put It There

We can double our national wealth by opening up the unused resources hoarded by the anti-growth government. Even with same top-heavy distribution rate, everybody will be satisfied. I've even heard a Communist say that he didn't care if the boss made a lot of money if he himself made a lot of money. He disagreed that such a distribution could happen very often under the Capitalist system, however.

 

[danielpalos]

so what; that does not let an employer off the hook unless they are independent contractors.

Off the hook for...?

regular wages for regular employees; there should be no exception for persons in the restaurant business.

the rich should not care how much the poor make in tips.

 

[danielpalos]

yet, the right wing insists on a "work or die" ethic from the Age of Iron.

You are aware that the 1996 Welfare Reform Act required work for welfare and was extremely effective, aren't you? Petulant former President Barack Hussein Obama's failed stimulus plan voided that act. As you know too, that has led to record numbers of people on welfare, food stamps, and other government handouts. How is that good for America?

No, it wasn't. It only seemed that way, due to the low unemployment rate at the time that legislation was enacted.

it is simply, "public sector cognitive dissonance", that requires a work ethic instead of correcting for Capitalism's, Natural Rate of Unemployment.

The right wing prefers having nothing but fallacy, and "blaming the poor".

 

[sealybobo]

Republicans don't have a better solution. Let's not forget before the aca Republicans didn't even want to do away with pre existing conditions. That's because they get healthcare thru their employers. Most of them have never lost a job and they lack empathy.

So why believe they want to fix it now?

They have no choice. DumBama Fd it up so bad now.

You're blaming us for everything like we blame booosh

 

[Markle]

According to this, the U.K. had a higher standard of living than the U.S.

As measured by a Socialist website measuring as to how Socialist are the Nations being evaluated.

Yeah, right!

 

[Markle]

No, it wasn't. It only seemed that way, due to the low unemployment rate at the time that legislation was enacted.

The unemployment rate in 1996 was 5.6% WITH a much higher Labor Participation Rate. Labor Participation Rate TODAY is 63 and in 1996 it began at 66.4 and in December it was 67. That's a huge difference.

 

[sealybobo]

yes UK is socialist and thus has 65% of our standard of living and would have 40% if they could not copy our capitalist inventions. Do you understand?

According to this, the U.K. had a higher standard of living than the U.S.

The 19 countries with the highest standard of life

Good for them, I will never live there, but glad they are doing well after exiting the EU, good for them!

When they leave, they're going down duh. You CAN'T live there.

Republicans don't have a better solution. Let's not forget before the aca Republicans didn't even want to do away with pre existing conditions. That's because they get healthcare thru their employers. Most of them have never lost a job and they lack empathy.

So why believe they want to fix it now?

Republicans serve the insurance companies and drug companies. They hate pre existing conditions and insuring the sick. It's an expense but isn't that their business? To pay for health needs? But they're in business to max profits.

Republicans are evil or stupid. One or the other or both

You are such a partisan nutjob.

Yet I get along with rational republicans like you. Huh. Must be some truth to what I'm saying.

 

[Markle]

FACT: At least 15 free preventive services and one wellness visit are covered on Major Medical Plans sold after 2014

Earth to franco, NOTHING IS FREE!

 

[Markle]

A doctor telling you you're too fat is called preventive medicine, with solutions. Cancer testing is no joke either. People like you make us about #30 in everything but military and being megarich GOP a-holes. Going down with a bullet when the New BS GOP is in power. Link to your stupid BS?

The New England Journal of Medicine
Does Preventive Care Save Money? Health Economics and the Presidential Candidates

"Our findings suggest that the broad generalizations made by many presidential candidates can be misleading. These statements convey the message that substantial resources can be saved through prevention. Although some preventive measures do save money, the vast majority reviewed in the health economics literature do not. Careful analysis of the costs and benefits of specific interventions, rather than broad generalizations, is critical. Such analysis could identify not only cost-saving preventive measures but also preventive measures that deliver substantial health benefits relative to their net costs; this analysis could also identify treatments that are cost-saving or highly efficient (i.e., cost-effective)."

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[Markle]

regular wages for regular employees; there should be no exception for persons in the restaurant business.

People work in a job which pays tips because they earn far more than they could in an hourly wage job.

My first job paid $0.85 per hour because we received tips. The minimum wage was $1.00 per hour. We made FAR more than $1.00 an hour in tips and we gave superior service BECAUSE we got tips. Wait staff in some very exclusive restaurants pay the restaurant to work in the establishment. I know, you're horrified and the owner's of the restaurant should be crushed at once!

 

[francoHFW]

A doctor telling you you're too fat is called preventive medicine, with solutions. Cancer testing is no joke either. People like you make us about #30 in everything but military and being megarich GOP a-holes. Going down with a bullet when the New BS GOP is in power. Link to your stupid BS?

The New England Journal of Medicine
Does Preventive Care Save Money? Health Economics and the Presidential Candidates

"Our findings suggest that the broad generalizations made by many presidential candidates can be misleading. These statements convey the message that substantial resources can be saved through prevention. Although some preventive measures do save money, the vast majority reviewed in the health economics literature do not. Careful analysis of the costs and benefits of specific interventions, rather than broad generalizations, is critical. Such analysis could identify not only cost-saving preventive measures but also preventive measures that deliver substantial health benefits relative to their net costs; this analysis could also identify treatments that are cost-saving or highly efficient (i.e., cost-effective)."

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Well a free colonoscopy saved my best friend's life a couple years ago, Of course I had to tell him about it, since he's a dupe. Pffffft!!

 

[francoHFW]

FACT: At least 15 free preventive services and one wellness visit are covered on Major Medical Plans sold after 2014

Earth to franco, NOTHING IS FREE!

Actually, a lot of socialism is better than free, like birth control and preventive care under ACA. And that's why the Brits threw out WSC as WWII ended. And why they got NHS back then.

 

[Skull Pilot]

so what; that does not let an employer off the hook unless they are independent contractors.

Off the hook for...?

regular wages for regular employees; there should be no exception for persons in the restaurant business.

the rich should not care how much the poor make in tips.

the rich don't care but you bet your ass the government does

 

[francoHFW]

According to this, the U.K. had a higher standard of living than the U.S.

As measured by a Socialist website measuring as to how Socialist are the Nations being evaluated.

Yeah, right!

And this- BTW GOP USA is a disgrace, dupe.
The World Happiness Report is out and the U.S. has fallen. Sad!

 

[jillian]

BUT BUT BUT Libtards laughed when Republicans said higher minimum wages will drive up food costs.

Restaurant diners are footing the bill for rising minimum wages.

In lieu of steep menu price increases, many independent and regional chain restaurants in states including Arizona, California, Colorado and New York are adding surcharges of 3% to 4% to help offset rising labor costs. Industry analysts expect the practice to become widespread as more cities and states increase minimum wages.

More on this...

Wendy's installing self-ordering kiosks in 1,000 restaurants
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What does 'A Day Without a Woman' mean for restaurants?
“It’s the emerging new norm,” said Sharokina Shams, spokeswoman for the California Restaurant Association. She said California restaurants are adding surcharges as the state lifts the minimum wage every year until it reaches $15 an hour by 2023. It is currently at $10.50 an hour for employers with 26 or more workers.
Restaurants are adding labor surcharges to help offset minimum wage increases

and?

because you have to pay 5 cents more for your disgusting fast food, they should work for subpar wages?
you'll just have to pay five cents more for your fat and salt.

automatic of certain places would have happened anyway. they didn't close normal places they just added income.

stop whining because you can't earn a decent wage and are bitter

/---- I make plenty of money. I'm one of those evil rich people you Libs harp about all of the time. I don't eat any type of fast food. And it's not 5 cents. Why do you Libs have to lie about everything?

no one thinks rich people are evil.

rich people who don't pay their fair share of taxes and don't want to... that's another subject.

and I'm pretty sure you're not rich. but whatever

 

[Skull Pilot]

BUT BUT BUT Libtards laughed when Republicans said higher minimum wages will drive up food costs.

Restaurant diners are footing the bill for rising minimum wages.

In lieu of steep menu price increases, many independent and regional chain restaurants in states including Arizona, California, Colorado and New York are adding surcharges of 3% to 4% to help offset rising labor costs. Industry analysts expect the practice to become widespread as more cities and states increase minimum wages.

More on this...

Wendy's installing self-ordering kiosks in 1,000 restaurants
US retail sales rise in January, led by gas and restaurants
What does 'A Day Without a Woman' mean for restaurants?
“It’s the emerging new norm,” said Sharokina Shams, spokeswoman for the California Restaurant Association. She said California restaurants are adding surcharges as the state lifts the minimum wage every year until it reaches $15 an hour by 2023. It is currently at $10.50 an hour for employers with 26 or more workers.
Restaurants are adding labor surcharges to help offset minimum wage increases

and?

because you have to pay 5 cents more for your disgusting fast food, they should work for subpar wages?
you'll just have to pay five cents more for your fat and salt.

automatic of certain places would have happened anyway. they didn't close normal places they just added income.

stop whining because you can't earn a decent wage and are bitter

/---- I make plenty of money. I'm one of those evil rich people you Libs harp about all of the time. I don't eat any type of fast food. And it's not 5 cents. Why do you Libs have to lie about everything?

no one thinks rich people are evil.

rich people who don't pay their fair share of taxes and don't want to... that's another subject.

and I'm pretty sure you're not rich. but whatever

define fair share

 

[jillian]

Waitresses and bartenders aren't going to whine about getting 15 an hour because a lot of them can make 20 or more an hour when tips are included.

No one will tip a waitress who makes 15 an hour

15 bucks where?

Minnesota Restaurant Adds Minimum Wage Surcharge To Customer Bills - Say Anything

That place put on a surcharge because the minimum wage was raised to 8 bucks.

There's a nice tidbit in that link. Look at the bill. This restaurant is getting 8 bucks for a cheeseburger, but they're claiming they can't afford to pay the help 8 bucks an hour.

lol

As the price of Hamburger went up, restaurants had no qualms charging $8 for a burger and passing on the cost
Now that ground beef prices have come down, they keep selling $8 burgers
But feel a need to hold their employees up for scorn

Right.

And they choose to humiliate their employees, by putting a wage surcharge on the bill, a way of saying it's the help's fault your meal costs what it costs,

but where is the beef surcharge? The fuel surcharge? the boss's wife wants a new car surcharge?

Eh. Blame the least of us, the employees, for the woes of the well off.

Human beings understand that the bill covers all expenses but the wage hike is new and it explains the sudden price increase. Sorry it had to be explained.

human beings? how would you know?

normal people understand that it's a lowlife move and you should pay your own employees. if you pass along a cost increase then it's YOUR cost increase.

or do you not understand basic tenets of running a business?

oh wait... never mind.

 

[Skull Pilot]

BUT BUT BUT Libtards laughed when Republicans said higher minimum wages will drive up food costs.

Restaurant diners are footing the bill for rising minimum wages.

In lieu of steep menu price increases, many independent and regional chain restaurants in states including Arizona, California, Colorado and New York are adding surcharges of 3% to 4% to help offset rising labor costs. Industry analysts expect the practice to become widespread as more cities and states increase minimum wages.

More on this...

Wendy's installing self-ordering kiosks in 1,000 restaurants
US retail sales rise in January, led by gas and restaurants
What does 'A Day Without a Woman' mean for restaurants?
“It’s the emerging new norm,” said Sharokina Shams, spokeswoman for the California Restaurant Association. She said California restaurants are adding surcharges as the state lifts the minimum wage every year until it reaches $15 an hour by 2023. It is currently at $10.50 an hour for employers with 26 or more workers.
Restaurants are adding labor surcharges to help offset minimum wage increases

and?

because you have to pay 5 cents more for your disgusting fast food, they should work for subpar wages?
you'll just have to pay five cents more for your fat and salt.

automatic of certain places would have happened anyway. they didn't close normal places they just added income.

stop whining because you can't earn a decent wage and are bitter

/---- I make plenty of money. I'm one of those evil rich people you Libs harp about all of the time. I don't eat any type of fast food. And it's not 5 cents. Why do you Libs have to lie about everything?

no one thinks rich people are evil.

rich people who don't pay their fair share of taxes and don't want to... that's another subject.

and I'm pretty sure you're not rich. but whatever

define fair share

the top 10% of earners pay just over 70% of all income taxes leaving 30% to be paid by the bottom 90% of earners

why the hell would anyone complain about that?